Fishermen welcome revised strategy

FISHERMEN yesterday gave a guarded welcome to a new 597million Government strategy for the seafood industry.

Mon, 29 Jan, 2007 - 00:00

Noel Baker

The strategy will see almost half of the fishing fleet being decommissioned.

It sets out a plan which the Government hopes will revitalise an industry suffering from over capacity of the fishing fleet and depletion of fish stocks.

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