But can stocks be sustained? Ireland’s 2020 fish quotas agreed

Agreement has been reached on quotas for fish stocks for the coming year, following two days of negotiations at the EU Council of Fisheries Ministers, in Brussels. The quotas will see an increase in mackerel, haddock, monkfish, and megrims, a flatfish found in the north-east Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. There will be a reduction in prawns.

According to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Marine, Michael Creed, it was a difficult negotiation that attempted to reconcile the necessity to save fish stocks with the rights of fishing fleet families to make a living.