No-deal Brexit will destroy Irish fishing, Oireachtas to hear

There are fears Brexit will lead to 'hundreds' of EU fishing vessels that normally fish in UK waters coming instead to fish in Irish waters. Picture: Don MacMonagle

A no-deal Brexit will destroy the Irish fishing fleet, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and the Marine will be told today.

It will also undo years of environmental work carried out between members of the fishing industry and marine scientists to protect fish stocks and coastal ecologies.