The Sea Clearances In Scotland

The Hebrides and the adjacent west coast of Scotland is a region of coastal communities on the periphery of Europe whose people have for generations struggled against the elements to achieve a sustainable economy in the face often of negative outside forces. Its population, now reduced to fewer than 80,000 persons, has seen its every major natural resource commandeered by outside groups in one way or another. In the nineteenth century the land was taken ruthlessly from the people in the name of economic progress. The sea and its fish stocks remain the one last major resource for future work and industry. Today, as a result of the effects of current management systems, regulations and measures, the local fishery resource, and the people's

Geography · Coastal and Marine Management · Geology · Oceanography

• The Maritime Dimension to Scotland's “Highland Problem”, ca. 1540–1630

  Aonghas MacCoinnich•Journal of the North Atlantic•2019

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