The siting and design of aquaculture in the landscape: visual and ...

Low profile, tidy, elongated fish farm cages match the low lying relief and horizontal emphasis of the surrounding landform.
3.5.2 Implications for siting and layout
These broad lochs may be able to accommodate proportionately larger developments – but
sometimes these lochs are not as expansive as they seem, and large structures can quickly
overwhelm them.
Care should be taken not to ‘fill up’ these lochs with development – try to make sure that
‘undeveloped’ water surface dominates over ‘developed’ water surfaces when visible from key
views, as in this illustration.
Taller structures, such as cages and feed barges, will be more easily accommodated where they
can be seen to clearly relate to one side of the loch or the other rather than hover in the middle of
the loch.
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