Western Isles SNP MP, Angus MacNeil has urged fisheries Minister Richard Lochhead, to ensure fishermen on the West Coast who have been fishing in a sustainable manner are not penalised by measures introduced to ameliorate the impact of huge boats on last year’s fishing grounds.
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Six years on from the largest community land purchase in Scotland, the turbines of Loch Carnan Community Windfarm are now generating revenue for reinvestment in the islands of Benbecula, Eriskay and South Uist.
NewsDue to extreme low tides the 12:20pm sailing from Leverburgh and the 3.30pm sailing from Berneray are cancelled.
NewsConservationists in the Western Isles have stressed the importance of livestock farming for the wildlife of the islands following the recent issue of a report by the RSPB.
NewsWESTERN Isles Councillors met with representatives from Cmal and Calmac this week to be briefed on the new ferry due to go into service on the Stornoway to Ullapool run in the summer of 2014.
NewsFERRY sailings in Harris have been cancelled today, Wednesday, February 27th.
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