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Shocking video shown in Wollongong Local Court depicts a domestic violence offender setting house on fire, attacking police officers.

Hundreds of Scottish fishermen say trawling has devastated the nation’s inshore waters, destroying plant and animal life. They want an exclusion…

Hundreds of Scottish fishermen say trawling has devastated the nation’s inshore waters, destroying plant and animal life. They want an exclusion…

The Our Seas alliance is calling for a ‘modernised’ three-mile limit (Steve Parsons/PA) An alliance of more than 100 organisations is demanding that trawlers be banned from fishing within three miles of Scotland’s coasts. Members of the Our Seas coalition insisted that a “modernised” three-mile limit is “not a radical measure” and would benefit both the environment and coastal communities. With talks taking place between the Scottish Government and the Scottish Greens over a forma...

Credit: Robert F. Bukaty/AP/File  Some House of Lords members (the UK’s upper House of Parliament) believe the bill should go further and include certain invertebrates. It would recognize that all shellfish feel pain. Speaking during the House of Lords debate in June, Baroness Janet Fookes said she was “shocked by some of the treatment of animals, such as lobsters, crabs and squid, in the way they have been stored and, very often, killed.” Maisie Tomlinson, co-director of Crusta...

  Jobs will go - Anger as Scots fishermen who raised concern about rare species are rewarded by ministers with ban PREMIUM Jobs will go - Anger as Scots fishermen who raised concern about rare species are rewarded by ministers with ban MINISTERS are facing a new legal clash with fishermen who say they face losing their livelihoods after being banned from an area of Scotland to protect an endangered fish. Creel fishermen and scallop divers are furious that a blanket fishing ban has been imp...

PREMIUM Fishermens fury: Ministers spend at least £30k contesting judges demand to reconsider Scottish no-trawling scheme SCOTTISH ministers are contesting a judges demand to reconsider a no-trawl scheme to protect Scotlands marine environment in a court battle that has already cost them £30,000. Lady Poole made the ruling after ministers said that the revisiting the proposed pilot no-trawl scheme "would serve no practical purpose". She took action after, in a landmark legal judgement...

Last modified on Tue 2 Feb 2021 16.50 EST Fishers around the UK have been “devastated” by fresh problems with exporting their produce to the EU, after the government admitted that exports of live mussels, oysters, scallops and certain other shellfish would be subject to ongoing restrictions. Those are all classified as “live bivalve molluscs” – a category which also includes cockles and clams. Under longstanding EU rules, catches of live bivalve molluscs from non-EU member states can ...

Since Jan. 1, when Britain formally left the European Union, truckloads of fish have been stopped at ports on both sides of the English Channel.

Inshore fishermen and members of the Scottish Creel Fishermens Federation blockaded Downing Street on Monday in protest over new trading rules…