VIDEO: Hunt saboteurs pledge summer watch on Angus salmon firm

Animal rights activists have clashed with an Angus salmon fishing company in a coastal stand-off near Montrose.

The Hunt Saboteurs Association figures have pledged to mount a summer-long vigil over the activities of the Usan-based Scottish Wild Salmon Company, which owns netting rights off the Angus coast and is licensed to kill marauding seals.

Bosses of the family-run firm say they are simply trying to protect their livelihood, but the activists have claimed seal shooting is barbaric and is not being used by the company as a “last resort” control measure.

On Wednesday night, protestors and company figures were involved in a stand-off for around an hour in the vicinity of Scurdie Ness lighthouse, near the Usan firm’s base.

The hunt sabs filmed company figures going out onto the rocks on the coast just south of Montrose.

In one bizarre incident a balaclava-wearing employee took a pool cue from his gun case and pretended to play a shot on the bonnet of a parked vehicle.

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