Conservationists call for three-mile coastal fishing limit in Scotland

Coalition of community, fishing and marine protection groups says fish stocks need to recover

Marine conservation campaigners have called for trawlers to be banned from fishing within three miles of Scotland's shoreline to help depleted fish stocks and seabeds to recover.

The Our Seas coalition, which includes angling bodies, ecotourism firms, scallop divers, coastal communities and salmon conservation boards, believe a ban on inshore fishing would also help prevent illegal scallop dredging and trawling inside existing protected areas.