'I think we are the last generation': The fishing industry's struggle to stay afloat

As 50 trawlers formed a protest flotilla in Cork Harbour on Wednesday calling for fair quotas, a handful of skippers spoke to Neil Michael about whether or not the Irish industry has a future

Damien Turner, skipper of the Roise Catriona, part of a flotilla of eight trawlers from Castletownbere making their way to the Port of Cork for a protest on Wednesday. Picture: Neil Michael

Three men and a woman best illustrate the state of the Irish fishing industry today.

One quit the industry two years ago, another is old enough to retire but can’t and the other two face being forced out of the industry despite being too young to retire.