The Sustainable Inshore Fisheries Trust (SIFT), a coalition of traditional creelmen, sea angling businesses and environmentalists, has attacked the claims from prawn trawlers and scallop dredgers that were reported in last week's Sunday Herald.
They counter that if these groups should be compensated for the £750 million Scottish Power-National Grid project to build an interconnector from Ayrshire to North Wales to export Scottish renewable energy, they should be compensated for the harm that they claim these shellfishermen do to their businesses and the local area. They claim:
