Creed critical of failure to apply fishery points system

Fish producers have praised opposition parties for blocking Government moves to introduce an EU points system for the industry.

However, Agriculture, Food, and Marine Minister Michael Creed, who signed the regulation into law in March, described those who voted against it as reckless.

The planned points system would apply to the licence holder of a sea-fishing boat, Irish and foreign, in cases where a serious infringement of the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy was detected within Ireland’s 200-mile exclusive fishery zone.