Argyll and Bute MP Brendan O’Hara has called for wider recognition of the vital role of the fishing industries in the west coast of Scotland following a summit in Glasgow.
Around 50 skippers, processors and exporters, mainly from the west coast, met in Glasgow on Friday January 11 for a fishing summit hosted and organised by Mr O’Hara and the Communities Inshore Fisheries Alliance (CIFA). The summit was also attended by Fergus Ewing MSP, cabinet secretary for the rural economy and Argyll and Bute MSP Michael Russell.
Mr O’Hara said: ‘I had become concerned that politicians, the media and other commentators were increasingly using the term “the Scottish fishing industry” as if there was just one fishing industry in Scotland, withone set of concerns and one shared, common view as to the future of the industry.