Scots support banning fishing in 40 per cent of Scotland’s waters – four times the amount ministers had proposed implementing highly protected…
SCOTS support banning fishing in 40% of Scotland’s waters – four times the amount ministers had proposed implementing highly protected marine areas in, a survey has found.but the proposals were scrappedA new poll for the Blue Marine Foundation conservation group and the Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust found Scots support a larger area of waters being set aside for nature restoration, with fishing excluded.
He added: “It’s time the Scottish Government actually do what they say and deliver on what they promise. Charles Millar, SIFT executive director, said: “At the moment, almost none of our inshore waters are reserved for low impact fishing, even though creeling in particular is the most sustainable way of catching prawns and other shellfish.
Bally Philp, national co-ordinator of the Scottish Creel Fisherman’s Federation, said: “There have been numerous studies, some undertaken by the Scottish Government themselves, that show if you create extensive low impact fishing zones, those can actually increase fishing and other jobs such as diving, angling and marine tourism.“The choice is not simply jobs in industrial fisheries or a recovering marine environment.
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