Lord Davies to represent Scotland’s fishing interests at key EC meeting
There’s politics and there’s political responsibility. This situation is all politics and no responsibility.The EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is currently under the review its flaws so profoundly...
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BBC ALBA looks at Norway’s Beauly-Denny line
BBC ALBA‘s award-winning current affairs series, Eòrpa, continues to bring viewers compelling stories on current issues from across Europe and its first airing this season is right on message with...
View ArticleMcGrigor speaks at Holyrood on annual fisheries negotiations
Jamie McGrigor’s speech in yesterday’s (1st December 2010) Parliamentary debate on the annual fisheries negotiations, focused on the particular concerns about the impact of West Coast prawn quota cuts....
View ArticleScottish Marine Regions consultation: a depressing waste of time
Marine Scotland’s document, Scottish Marine Regions: defining their boundaries, is in its consultation phase, with the closure date for responses on 18th February 2011.Its core concern is to arrive at...
View ArticleLetter from Jamie McGrigor MSP on EU fisheries deal
Today at the last First Minister’s Question Time of 2011 I challenged Alex Salmond to respond to the specific concerns of Scotland’s nephrops fishermen about the impact of the EU fisheries deal on...
View ArticleRSPB Scotland says first step in new fisheries strategy must protect our seas
RSPB Scotland has today (27th January) warned that a new strategy for Scotland’s inshore fisheries will not help fishing communities unless it does more to protect our seas.Speaking in response to a...
View ArticleMcGrigor says Europe should not be looking to Scotland for fishing fleet cuts
A ‘Fishing Effort Factsheet’ released by the European Commission has stated that fleets across Europe need to shrink further to ensure sustainable fishing.It calls on countries across Europe to...
View ArticleAsking the right question on Europe
The fact that Scotland’s First Minister is hardly hard wired to the truth is an important but separate question. And he has always been known as an artful dodger on the scamper.Whether or not Scotland...
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Giant rainbow trout farm poses threat to marine environment in Loch Etive
Loch Etive is now facing a significant expansion of rainbow trout farming.Those who have followed the progress of rainbow trout farming on Lochs Awe or at Etive will know that there have been numerous...
View Articlesaveseilsound campaigners respond to evidence given to Holyrood Committee
The saveseilsound Campaign Group is responding here to evidence taken by the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment [RACCE] Committee on 5th and 12th December 2012.The full records of these...
View ArticleBertie Armstrong says fishing deal the best the UK could have got from EU
[Updated below - political responses] Scottish fishing industry leader, Bertie Armstrong, CEO of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, has greeted the end of the 2012 negotiations on the EUs Common...
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Two leaked emails tell fishy tales of salmon farming in Outer Hebrides
Two emails exchanged by two top executives in The Scottish Salmon Company’s have been leaked to campaign group, Outer Hebrides Against Fish Farms – and as well as this issue being relevant all along...
View ArticleFishing: Lochhead wants to see changes in ‘remote control’ from Brussels
Scottish Fisheries Secretary, Richard Lochhead,has just summed up the agreements made at the Fisheries Council in Brussels at the end of 2012 and has switched on the Decca to scan the horizon for the...
View ArticleMcGrigor: Scots mackerel fishermen should be congratulated not punished
The removal of mackerel from a list of sustainable fish to eat has been branded ‘premature’ by the Scottish Conservatives.The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) said today mackerel should only be eaten...
View ArticleLochhead responds to Iceland announcement on self imposed mackerel quota
Iceland has announced that it is taking a unilateral and self-imposed cut of 15% on its mackerel quota for 2013.With the UK mackerel fishery largely a Scottish fishery, Fisheries Secretary Richard...
View ArticleUrgent Avaaz campaign on EU vote on fishing – 24 hours to go
The campaign organisation, Avaaz, has drawn our attention to an EU vote in 24 hours time which is likely to go the wrong way in terms of protecting fish stocks – driven by the vested interests of...
View ArticleHead of Greenpeace UK’s Oceans Campaign euphoric about Europarl fisheries vote
Head of Greenpeace UK’s Oceans Campaign, Scot Willie Mackenzie, is euphoric about the reform measures passed by a majority of 5-1 MEPs in Brussels.This came in spite of the traditional and persistent...
View ArticleObserver article uses Argyll waters to highlight conflicts and contradictions...
An excellent and immediately readable article in yesterday’s [10th February] edition of The Observer, tours not only a stretch of Argyll’s west coast from offshore to Mull and the Sound of Mull and to...
View ArticleMcGrigor says Rural Affairs Committee last discussed critical mackerel...
The ongoing row between the EU and Iceland and the Faroes over the fishing of Atlantic mackerel stocks is a matter of immediate concern for Scotland.Highlands and Islands MSP, Jamie McGrigor has told...
View ArticleSemple says: ‘Europe making a cod of Clyde fisheries’
Campbeltown’s SNP Councillor, John Semple, has sent a clear message to the Scottish Government of his own party – that any economic recovery in Kintyre and the Clyde Coast could be severely affected if...
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