Skipper may sell up as whitefish sector ‘on brink’

A well-known skipper with an interest in four trawlers says he is contemplating selling out as industry leaders warn that the whitefish sector is on the brink of closure.

Trawler owner Ebbie Sheehan said scores of quota-hit vessel owners cannot continue to survive on a share-out of a “handful of boxes”.

The Castletownbere man insisted: “We don’t have enough quota. End of story.”