It has been bad enough in recent months when known anti-fishing industry groups have been trying to fill the public with doom and gloom images of our industry, but now respected national newspapers are going down the same road.
Again, I ask the question of the UK's Minister Benyon and Scottish fisheries secretary Richard Lochhead, how can they sit back and turn a blind eye to these attacks on the industry without standing up to publicly point out these articles, particularly the Sunday Times’ one, is blatant mis-use of available data to come up with a "2 + 2 = 5" result.
Fishing industry representative bodies are exhausted from constantly fighting battles and trying to defend the industry against attacks, but when an environmental editor from one of the...
