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ASSG: Management Committee 2005
Douglas McLeod | Roger Thwaites | George Hamilton
Gordon Goldsworthy | John Brewer
Douglas McLeod, Chairman
Location: Isle of Skye
Cultivates: Oysters
Doug McLeod has a background in resource economics, an expertise which
has been applied in both his original professional incarnation in the
international oil industry and now in his second career in the
aquaculture sector.
As well as operating a small scale oyster cultivation operation in
northwest Scotland, he is Chairman of the national representative trade
association, the ‘Association of Scottish Shellfish Growers’, a
role he
has carried out for over 15 years, and of the trans-sectoral ‘Scottish
Aquaculture Training Association’.
He spends most of his time representing the interests of the shellfish
cultivation industry in what is perceived to be a never-ending series
of discussions with government officials, politicians, scientists and
regulators across Scotland as well as in London and Brussels. On
the European scene, he is a Past President of the ‘European Mollusc
Producers’ Association’, the multi-national ‘association of
associations’ representing the European industry, and a Board member of
‘AquaTT’, the pan-European vocational training organisation for
the
aquaculture industry. Internationally, he is a member of the Advisory
Committee for the ‘International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety’ and a voting member on the
‘Toxin Task Force’ of the AOAC.
In his spare time he participates in national and international
Conferences related to shellfish, ranging from the annual ‘ASSG
International Conference’, traditionally held in Oban and focusing on
issues of contemporary interest to Association members, to Guangzhou,
China in September 2003 (shellfish safety) and South Carolina in
November 2004 (shellfish restoration).
Roger Thwaites (SSMG liaison)
Location: Loch Creran
Cultivates: Oysters
George Hamilton
Location: Dornoch Firth
Cultivates: Bottom mussels
Gordon Goldsworthy
Location: Loch Fyne
Cultivates: Scallops and Queens
John Brewer
Location: Argyll
Cultivates: Suspended mussels
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