#fisheries

#fisheries

A heavy metal net is dragged across the seafloor at breakneck speed, churning up dark clouds of sediment and swallowing everything in its path. A blue-spotted stingray tries to flee, flailing its winglike pectoral fins as the trawl closes in from behind, but its efforts are in vain. This unprecedented footagea scene in David Attenborough's latest documentary Oceanis the first time bottom trawling has been captured in high definition, exposing a practice rarely seen by the public.

There is no creature born, even among the greater apes, which more resembles a human baby in its ways and its cries than a baby grey seal.

Elspeth Macdonald, chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation, expressed concerns that the post-Brexit fisheries arrangements under Starmer's government are detrimental to Scotland’s fishing industry.