Fishermen to address problems with visiting EU delegation

A HIGH-POWERED European Union delegation that is due to visit a big fishing port will be told the industry faces a bleak future unless it is helped with a number of measures.

Castletownbere has suffered badly from the decline in fishing, brought about mainly by limited quotas and stiff competition from the fleets of other nations.

Six years ago, there were 65 vessels supplying the local fishermen’s co-op in the west Cork peninsula town.