Guga hunt II
According to the BBC...
A sports lets agency has reported "particularly strong" demand for grouse shooting in Scotland, as the 2011 season begins.Anyone like to guess why the SSPCA and SNH aren't demanding an end to Grouse shooting?
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It's because those involved with the 'sport' are such dashed good shots that all the birds are killed instantly.
Along with the fact that the amount of tweed worn by participaters must surely benefit the islands economy.
A gun on these moors costs typically some two grand a day whereas the humble guga has retailed at around twelve quid for
the past couple of years.
Guga hunting needs to be kept alive, as this is the key to an export-led economic boom for the Outer Hebrides. Catch guga. Kill guga. Deep fry guga. Export to mid-west America. Seriously - anything deep fried will immediately gain a long queue of hungry people.
Proof of this at the Iowa State Fair - which is kinda like a Uist or Lewis crofting or farming event, but with the addition of several hundred tons of batter.
As they (sort of) said in Field of Dreams:
"If you deep fry it, they (diners) will come..."
SNH and the RSPB will say little against the shooting of grouse and pheasant. They do not want to upset the very people who sign their pay cheques do they?
@8.30 Read last week's Free Press- SNH actually SUPPORT the Ness guys- It is not SNH who are against it - it is RSPCA....
Are SNH calling for an end to the Guga hunt? I thought they didn't have an issue with the cull?
Never saw the attraction of any bloodsport myself but if there's enough gannets to cope with what's going on it doesn't seem like a massive issue.
Talking of which - A Highland Gentleman (of the road) appeared at Dingwall Sheriff Court having been caught roasting a protected species of owl over a fire in the woods.
The Sheriff was a shooting man himself and enquired of the accused what the F owl tasted like?
After much thought our man said " Half way between an Osprey and a Golden Eagle"
@9;21, SNH may be in 'public' favour of the hunt but they show their true colours when they forced their wishes onto the people of Barra with their support of the MSAC East of Mingulay. Why not open consultation on the shooting of cormorants, after all there are now so plentiful that they are deemed a pest on inland freshwater fisheries?
You cannot trust these people as those in Barra have found out!
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