FISHERMEN have backed calls for an international mediator to be appointed to bring about an end to the long-running international dispute over mackerel quotas.
Fisheries Secretary Richard Lochhead, pictured, wants the mediator to be drafted in to help end the war of words with the Faroe Islands and Iceland, who have both set themselves large quotas of mackerel in recent years.
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