Scottish fishers say marine protection plans will wreck coastal communities

Outcry includes protest song comparing closure of inshore fishing grounds to Highland clearances"It's about justice," says Angus MacPhail, a creel fisher off Barra, in the Outer Hebrides, about the marine protection plans that he believes will devastate island cultures like his own."Our lives are being dictated by people who know nothing about the areas we live in or the jobs we do," says MacPhail, whose main catch is crab and lobster. "Most of us fishing around islands like Barra are small-scale operators and you don't get much more environmentally friendly than that." Continue reading...