Leader Comment: "A poodle cannot be a watchdog"

Here's today's Leader Comment in The Sunday Herald:

 

 

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In 2013. SEPA was labelled a 'lapdog' for cravenly kowtowing to the salmon farming industry's demands to keep the numbers of dead farmed salmon secret because it was "commercially damaging":

 

Graphic:  Scott Landsburgh, Chief Executive of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organization, with his lapdog named SEPA (published by Fly Fishing & Fly Tying magazine in 2013)

 

 

The Sunday Herald reported in October 2013:

 

 

 

Read more via today's Sunday Herald:

 

 

 

• Super-sized Scottish Salmon - 8,000 tonnes of trouble on the horizon!
• The Sunday Herald: "Outrage over secret plans to base world's biggest salmon farm in Scotland"
• Press Release: "Recipe for Ruin - SEPA Lifts Limits on Salmon Farms"
• Sunday Herald: "Plans to scrap fish farm limits slammed"

 

 

• Super-sized Scottish Salmon - 8,000 tonnes of trouble on the horizon!
• The Sunday Herald: "Outrage over secret plans to base world's biggest salmon farm in Scotland"
• Press Release: "Recipe for Ruin - SEPA Lifts Limits on Salmon Farms"
• Sunday Herald: "Plans to scrap fish farm limits slammed"