Industrial gill netting has to stop

There are two types of gill netting in my book. Wreck netting in southern waters by local boats and industrial gill netting in northern waters by Spanish and French vessels.

These industrial gillnet vessels are using hundreds of miles of nets around Shetland and northern and western waters and are fishing well beyond sustainable levels and destroying crab stocks by the tonne.

If this is why France needs more licences to wipe out our fish stocks for future generations then they are well on the way of doing it with our governments’ assistance.

Why are these vessels allowed to do this wanton destruction to our fish stocks? No one will answer that question, especially Marine Scotland who should be monitoring this but don’t. Why?

Industrial gill netting is causing massive pollution in our waters and has to stop before it is too late. Marine Scotland do your job!!

Alastair Inkster
Hamnavoe