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.
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