An Ecosystem In Meltdown

I guess it's a question of who you trust.

Do you trust the independent experts who say that the Firth of Clyde, on the west coast of Scotland, has been so heavily fished that the ecosystem is in "meltdown", that the environment has been "degraded", and that the area was being exploited "unsustainably"?

Or do you trust the spokesman from the Scottish Fisherman's Federation who calls the independent report "lightweight sensationalism...unworthy and inaccurate" and "destructive to the industry"?

I tell you what is more destructive to the industry - thinking that if you just shut the experts up and pretend like nothing is wrong then you can carry on with your unsustainable practices and everything will be hunky-dory.

Sometimes, the vested interests don't see how to act in the best interests.


Incidentally, I took the picture above when I was on Shetland last year, and loved it so much that it was my desktop wallpaper for around nine months.