MORE than 130 organisations have expressed concern that environmental problems in Scotland’s waters are “being erased or delayed” by the…
-Green government to introduce further management measures inside Marine Protected Areas and restrict bottom-trawling and scallop dredging were either disappearing or significantly delayed.
Hayley Wolcott, coordinator of the Our Seas coalition, said: “This polling suggests that the majority of people within coastal communities want to see more protection of our marine environment from the most harmful methods of fishing, not another decade of inaction. “There is overwhelming evidence that coastal fish nursery and spawning grounds are damaged by these bottom towed fishing gears, and that this has directly contributed to a decline in marine life and the historical collapse of many fish populations.”
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