Share the salmon harvest fairly

AS we enter the post drift-net era we must not rush to alter the point of slaughter, but rather exercise the precautionary approach.

Lingering unhappiness with the level of compensation being given to the former drift-net people could have been avoided if the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources had chosen to work with the North Atlantic Salmon Fund which had previous experience of negotiating fully acceptable compensation agreements on both sides of the Atlantic.

Either way we are now all subject to the EU habitats directive banning the netting of mixed stock salmon.