Ban trawler fishing says Cornish MP

Some types of fishing may be banned if Cornish MP?s get their way.

MP Candy Atherton has published a report from the Commons environment committee calling for pair trawling to stop in two seasons time unless dolphhin deaths are cut.

Conservationists last week revealed that some species could be made extinct if fishing continues in this way.

There have already been hundreds of dolphin deaths on Cornish beaches this year. The islands get very few dead dolphins washed up.

Julie Love from the Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust explains why: “We do not get many on Scilly, this is due to tides and our coastline, they end up on Mainland beaches instead. Also some of them are on the uninhabited islands so we do not know about these until the summer when all we find are bones.”