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Conference to discuss fisheries issue

Fishermen are at the mercy of the sea, the weather, the fish and the EU common agriculture policy. Their income can fluctuate wildly and their livelihoods are anything but stable. Liadh Ní Riada, Sinn Féin MEP on the European Parliament’s fisheries committee, hosts a conference in Dungarvan next Saturday to address this.She and the left-learning GUE group in the parliament want to have a pilot project on creating a public insurance system for the sector that would help when incomes are cut because of natural disasters or cuts in their quota when fish species are in danger.hare of quota and fishing illegally.