See page 3 of this week's Nairnshire for further details. What do you think? Poll in the sidebar.
Iain Bain's editorial should also be read in conjunction with the page 3 article: "The wildlife which now inhabits the lower Nairn signifies the recovery of the area from its former industrial use. It represents a new order but it is still a natural order and while it is right to attempt to protect it, that protection should not become interference."
4 comments:
Although I haven't read the Nairnshire yet it would be a shame if fishing was banned in the harbour area. This is one of the few places you can still take children to mess around with a fishing rod without having to get a permit - at least it was in my day - although I notice there have been some signs erected recently.
Holiday makers & the locals have been fishing for free at The Harbour for years why spoil peoples enjoyment, passed the putting green the other day noticed you now have to go to the baths to collect your putter & ball what a shambles !!!!! Nairn as holiday resort is now a joke I know this has has been mentioned many a time on The Gurn but what an advert for the town is it for the tourists when they are stuck in the traffic & set eyes on that dilapidated building that used to be The Regal, no wonder they now just pass through the town instead of stopping, & I think those who are here for the Barclays Golf Tournament will be bitterly disappointed if they ever set foot in Nairn which at the moment is not very welcoming.
To lift from Iain Bain’s leader in the Nairnshire ‘There is nothing worse than seeing an animal in distress or dying because of some crass human action’. I couldn’t agree more, but in this instance Mr Bain is describing discarded fishing tackle hurting or killing birds, and yet it is acceptable that the very same equipment is used without question to cause equally damaging pain and suffering to our wild fish
In the UK we tend to divide up the animal kingdom, here is Nairn it is ‘cuddly’ ducks and swans, but ‘bad’ seagulls who dare to invade our patch. The poor fish (what is left of them) that swim in the sea and the river hardly get a look in with regard to their welfare
The irony of the call for fishing to be banned at the harbour is that the birds in question have been tamed by humans, and see us representing food, whether we are holding a fishing rod or a bread bag. It’s no wonder that they get tangled in fishing gear. The only way to stop this is to cease feeding them and let them revert to being the wild birds that they are. As for the fish…
If someone makes a mistake does that make the person a bad person for what they have done.
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