Imagine the huge outcry if such wholesale annihilation were being perpetrated on land-based wildlife.
But because it's happening at sea – almost everywhere, not just Scotland – it goes barely noticed, year in, year out.
Eoghan Daltun 🌍
An appalling preventable slaughter "more than 1,000 harbour porpoises and common dolphins killed annually, 10,000 seabirds and 500 seals. Six humpback whales and 30 minke whales were also found dead in Scottish creel ropes"
@WildlifeTrusts @WCL_News
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Conservationists say cherished creatures such as whales, dolphins and seabirds are being killed in large numbers by fishing tackle
