Fresh calls have been made to the Scottish and UK Governments to help breath new life into the ailing fishing industry within the Ayr district.
Fairer quotas, investment in vessels and better infrastructure in shoreside processing facilities, are among a raft of solutions needed to aid the sector in Ayrshire.
It comes after Ayrshire Live told last week how landings within the district in 2020 were significantly down on 2019. The value of fish landings within the Ayr district, which is spearheaded by the major Port of Troon, fell by a massive 33 per cent to £9 million last year.
And the tonnage fell by 26 per cent to 3.7 million. It prompted fears by top economist, Tony Mackay, that some fishermen in the Ayr district fishing fleet would
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