Clyde inshore fishery
23rd March 2020
Fish Legal met Stuart McMillan MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde in March to highlight the continuing failure of the Scottish Government to take measures to restore the decimated fish populations of the Firth of Clyde. Following the publication of a report by Government scientists in 2014 showing high levels of impact on fish populations caused by prawn trawling, the Scottish Government pledged an action programme to restore the ecological condition of the Firth of Clyde by 2020. Yet no measures have been taken and the state of the Firth of Clyde remains unchanged. As a result of the meeting, Stuart McMillan agreed to ask questions in Parliament.
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