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4 unusual facts about Fishing industry in Scotland


Fishing industry in Scotland

The distribution of the species is therefore limited by the extent of these mud patches, which are found in the Firth of Forth, Moray Firth, the North and South Minches, the Clyde estuary, and the Fladen ground, in the centre of the North Sea.

A recent inquiry by the Royal Society of Edinburgh found fishing to be of much greater social, economic and cultural importance to Scotland than it is relative to the rest of the UK.

The SFF lobbies for the interests of Scottish fishermen at national and international levels in Edinburgh, London and Brussels.

An agreement on the two regulations which make up the CFP was eventually reached on the night of June 30, 1970 - the day that negotiations were due to start for the accession of the UK, Ireland, Denmark and Norway.



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