Irish seafood industry to achieve €1bn sales by 2020

A new €241m development programme for the seafood sector for the period up to 2020 will be rolled out from the beginning of this year.

It will follow the pre-Christmas fish quota negotiations at the Council of Fisheries Ministers in Brussels.

Agriculture, Food, and Marine Minister Simon Coveney said the outcome was very positive for the industry in light of the reductions that had been proposed by the European Commission in advance of the negotiations.