Don’t make scapegoats of fishermen for poor industry conditions, taskforce told

A Government taskforce set up to investigate allegations of mistreatment of non-EU fishermen working in the industry here will today be told those fishermen must not be made scapegoats for poor conditions in the industry.

The International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) is concerned that those workers might be deported.

It is expected to tell the taskforce that few Irish and EU nationals are willing to work in the industry and that if the non-EU nationals are deported, it could have very poor consequences for fishing here.