Making Scotland's Landscape

The Sea (1x3)

Air date: Nov 07, 2010

This week Dr Iain Stewart reveals how our hearts, and not our heads, have ruled the least understood landscape of them all - the sea. The public's emotions have played a defining role in the fate of Scotland's maritime creatures and the upshot has been a form of lottery. While some species, like seals and sea birds, have been protected, others - like cod - have been fished nearly out of existence.