 |  | | | Scallop Divers | 06 Nov 2006 | | |
Fish could be off the menu in less than 50 years as a result of overfishing, pollution and climate change according to a report published in the journal 'Science'. It revealed that a third of the species fished since 1950 have already collapsed, or declined by 90 per cent.
The introduction of quotas for white fish means that the demand for shellfish has never been higher, and fresh Scottish scallops are now on the menus of many top restaurants. But there is currently a debate about whether the most common form of scallop fishing - dredging -is actually destroying the sea bed irreparably. Mary Galloway and Shonna Galloway, from Dunoon in Argyll, have been hand-diving for scallops since they trained as divers ten years ago. It is a much slower method of fishing than dredging, but demand in the area from restaurants and hotels for locally sourced products has turned, what started as a hobby, into a lucrative business. They talked to Angela Robson as they prepared for a dive in Loch Fyne.
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