Tackle industrial fishing, but local inshore fleets deserve support | Letters

Tom Collinson stands up for local fishing fleets, Christopher Hird is worried that after Attenborough’s Ocean everyone will think ‘job done’, and Dr Sally Campbell urges the UK to ratify the UN high seas treatyAccording to George Monbiot, fishing is “the most destructive of all private industries” (Attenborough’s Ocean is the film I’ve been waiting my whole career for – now the world must act on its message, 13 June). Have fossil fuel lobbyists finally got to him?Monbiot is right to highlight our complacency with overfishing, but in our attempts to tackle industrial fishing’s worst abuses, especially unchecked bottom trawling, we should not demonise small‑scale fishers – our ocean’s most powerful custodians. Continue reading...

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