![]() ![]() It's a beautiful lake in its own right - as is the town of Inverness on its shores - but tourists come from all over the world hoping for a glimpse of the famous monster. Loch Ness is by far the main tourist draw in the Scottish highlands. There is of course a strong incentive to protect monsters like Nessie, even if only symbolically: tourism. ![]() Like other reputed lake monsters around the world, those who are convinced that Nessie exists have tried to pass legal measures to protect them. William Fraser, the chief constable of Inverness-shire in the 1930s, wrote a letter to a government official noting that a man from London, Peter Kent, "stated that he was having a special harpoon gun made and that he was to return with some 20 experienced men on August 22 for the purpose of hunting the monster down." Fraser added that he warned Kent not to hunt for the creature, and suggested that some official government protection might be established: "That there is some strange creature in Loch Ness seems now beyond doubt, but that the police have any power to protect it is very doubtful." In 2010, archives shed some light on how seriously some locals took the monster.
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