Once more down the foodchain
Jul 20th, 2009 | By ssacn | Category: SSACN AnnouncementsSoaring fish prices and a shortage of haddock may mean another species will need to be exploited for the traditional fish supper – megrim.
Scottish scientists are baffled by the explosion in the population of megrim sole around the Northern coastline of Scotland, and chefs believe the flatfish could replace dwindling stocks of haddock – yet dwindling is not the message given by the SFF or the government.
The Scottish Government is spending £200,000 with Shetland’s NAFC Marine Centre over the next three years to discover why there has been such a huge increase in the population of the species; the research will deliver a wide range of data that will be made available to manage the megrim stocks, 99% of which are exported to Spain.
Once again quite happy to spend money on researching something to be commercially exploited but try and get money to protect or regenerate a species – no chance !
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