Calls for €12m fund to help inshore fishing industry

Michael Desmond, chairman of the National Inshore Fishermen's Association. Picture: Denis Minihane.

The Government is to be asked to give Ireland’s inshore fishers more than €12m to help them deal with the disruption to their markets caused by the war in Ukraine and the pandemic.

The market in shrimp, for example, has collapsed, with one group of around 600 smaller inshore fishers losing an estimated total of €5m in the build-up to last Christmas.