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Smith Commission

Following the Scottish independence referendum this 2014 nonpartisan working group delivered a set of recommendations for devolution of powers to the Scottish Parliament; among these was that responsibility for management of Crown Estate assets--including seabed and fishing rights, and revenue generated from them--be transferred in the first case, with further aims to  delegate such authority to local Island Councils. 

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