“Well if a report of a sighting is all that’s needed to bring her back then I’m sure someone will oblige.”
No doubt, as I understand it the area has quite a cottage industry going that is built around this. If that get’s threatend someone will surly have a “sighting”.
threatend = threatened
Yeh I think what they are complaining about is not that Nessie has necessarily gone away but that the sighters of Nessie have fallen down on the job.