Gardenstown seal cull abandoned amid protests
Source: BBC
A major wild salmon producer has said it is giving up the culling of seals after protests at a harbour in the north east of Scotland.
The Montrose-based Scottish Wild Salmon Company claimed it had been confronted by activists at Gardenstown harbour.
The company said it was removing firearms from its operations, meaning only acoustic devices would be used to drive seals away from nets.
The protest group, Sea Shepherd, expressed "delight" at the news.
Police Scotland said it was monitoring the situation.
Read more: http://m.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-27109912
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)The same company recently bought the fishing rights for another Aberdeenshire estuary, and wanted to have a cull there too, but has backed down because of protests: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/anger-as-fisheries-firm-nets-salmon-river-rights.23775403
flvegan
(64,403 posts)That is all.
LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)Same reason, they were eating "too many" salmon, which was slightly limiting the ability of humans to do the same damn thing on a commercial scale.