Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON From Scottish Sea Fisheries Statistics 2024 published yesterday: The Scottish fishing industry value in 2024 was £734 million. This is the highest value (adjusted to 2024 prices) of the last ten years. Scottish fishing vessels landed 532 thousand tonnes of sea fish and shellfish, the greatest tonnage of the last ten years. A summary of the headline numbers are: Scottish vessels landed 532 thousand tonnes of sea fish and shellfish in 2024. An increase of eight per cent compared … Continue reading Scottish fishing industry value is at highest value in the last ten years but still hampered by lack of control over £189m worth of landings abroad

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Look at the massive generosity of the SNP Government’s grant subsidies per person , above, for those living the Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland – around £4 to £6 000 per person more than the rest of us get but are they grateful, are they heck? Western Isles is Labour , Orkney and Shetland are Lib Dumbs. Of course, thanks to the ‘Scottish’ media, they don’t know. Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer … Continue reading SNP Government gives islanders around £5 000 each more than the rest of us in grant subsidies but are they grateful? Do they even know?

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON From Wildlife Crime in Scotland 2024, published yesterday: Recorded wildlife crime offences fell for fourth year in a row to just over half the level from the peak in 2020/2021. Source: https://www.gov.scot/publications/wildlife-crime-in-scotland-2024/ All things being equal, the rate last year might have been expected to be around 1 860 in England & Wales but was, in fact 4 819, pushing 3 times higher. Source: https://www.wcl.org.uk/docs/2025/WCL_Wildlife_Crime_2025_Executive_summary.pdf This is remarkable given Scotland’s large wild areas, rivers and coastal waters, popular with … Continue reading Wildlife crime plummets to half the level only four years ago in Scotland and to just over one third of that in England & Wales, per head, with 25% more police officers

Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotlandClick on the above.Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account – 12266421 Name – JOHN ROBERTSON Many thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this and for finding the references. In the Guardian today: Kinship carers in England to be given financial support in government pilot – Charities hail ‘groundbreaking’ scheme for grandparents and others who take full parental responsibility for a child. ‘Ground-breaking’ eh? Nothing like it before or anywhere else in the UK then? BBC Scotland must be drafting something for Anas Sarwar to say about it? But wait, since 2009, seventeen … Continue reading 17 years late, England pilots kinship care financial support but still does not match Scotland’s more equitable system