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Is it likely that any farms would be interested in doing such a thing?

I have one final small question. At the moment, do we have a good overview of fish welfare in salmon farming?

Okay. I had moved on.

I have covered my question on that theme.

I would like to pick up the issue of fish welfare. Professor Martin, you drew a distinction earlier between pain and welfare, and I want to explore that a bit more. If a fish is in pain, can its welfare be described as being at a high level?

Do we know what the environmental impact of salmon farms is?

I would like to move on to fish welfare, Professor Martin, and pick up on some of your earlier comments.

Do you think that there is an easy route to getting agreement among the community on what welfare looks like for fish? Is there an understanding of how a happy fish acts and what it looks like, which could lead to key recommendations being made and the setting of criteria that must be met within a farm?

The great variation in numbers of escapes in Scotland in different years suggests that there is no clear way of entirely preventing salmon from escaping. Therefore, I would like to be clearer on how people can meet that ask of taking a precautionary approach to escapes.

But that recommendation cannot have been met—