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SIC: Holyrood should fund inter island routes
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![Quota for NorthSea cod is going up by 15per cent in 2016 while the introduction of the discard ban for the species has been delayed by 12 months.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Cod2-240x140.jpg)
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![SIC Leader Gary Robinson (right) and SIC development manager Douglas Irvine (left) take European Commissioner Johannes Hahn on a tour of the isles in 2013.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/130902_douglas_irvine_johannes_hahn_gary_robinson_PB-240x140.jpg)
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![Tory MEP and fisheries spokesman Ian Duncan](/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Ian-Duncan-Picture-240x140.jpg)
![Shetland Fishermen's Association's new policy adviser Maria Aira Martin getting used to a closer climate in Lerwick harbour.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/maria_aira_martin-240x140.jpg)
![JM Ledgard (right) working in Somalia, where his novel Submergence is based.](/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/JML_Somalia_1998592b-240x140.jpg)
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