Letter: Fish stock fears
For instance, it is no longer possible to clearly follow the relentless and continuing decline in wild salmonid numbers in the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland, wrought by the impact of factory fish farm sea lice upon wild stocks migrating from and returning to their rivers of origin.
The new format may seem equivocal to some observers, and I include myself in that number. They might conclude, rightly or wrongly, that it could be a questionable attempt by Marine Scotland to disguise from public view the full extent of the catastrophe that these fish farms have visited upon our marine and freshwater environment - and upon the animals and humans who depend upon that environment for their sustenance. How might the public now access the information absent from these fishery statistics?
BRUCE SANDISON
Tongue
by Lairg, Sutherland