The Scottish Inshore Fisheries Advisory Group (SIFAG) was the main inshore fisheries stakeholder body from 1999 until 2011. The Group comprised a range of industry representatives, all of the component parts of Marine Scotland (i.e. policy, compliance, science), Scottish Natural Heritage, Seafish and Environment Link. SIFAG was joint author of the Strategic Framework for Inshore Fisheries in Scotland (2005), a key part of which is the establishment of Inshore Fisheries Groups (IFGs).
In 2011, Cabinet Secretary Richard Lochhead announced the creation of a new fisheries co-management group - the Fisheries Management and Conservation (FMAC) Group. This group is a high level forum for discussion of all sea fisheries management issues, including inshore fisheries, and for future joint working between the industry and Scottish Government.
FMAC now has responsibility for those areas previously dealt with by SIFAG. The letter to SIFAG members informing them that the group was to be wound up is now available online.
SIFAG Meeting Papers
27 January 2005 - Agenda, Minutes
21 April 2005 - Agenda, Minutes
28 September 2005 - Agenda, Minutes
21 November 2005 - Agenda, Minutes
30 March 2006 - Agenda, Minutes
28 June 2006 - Agenda, Minutes
24 November 2006 - Agenda, Minutes
27 March 2007 - Agenda, Minutes
19 September 2007 - Agenda, Minutes
26 February 2008 - Agenda, Minutes
26 November 2008 - Agenda, Minutes
25 June 2009 - Agenda