The video was filmed by local marine ecologist Peter Hume of Sea Kintyre after he was tipped off about suspicious fishing activity by Shark and Skate Scotland."All around the pier there were mountains of discarded skate and langoustines," he told Sky News.
Mr Hume says the skate in his video appear to have been thrown overboard after suffocating, which he says indicates the discarding is illegal.Large volumes of fish and other marine life are routinely caught in bottom-trawl nets used to sweep the seabed. Charities say unintended bycatch is a particular problem in the prawn trawl fishery due to the small mesh size of the nets. They say discarding often happens at sea so videos like Peter's is rare.
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