Irish fishermen are getting another raw deal

Ireland has 23% of European waters and the richest fishing waters in the European union, yet we are allowed a mere 4% of white-fish quotas.

Irish fishermen are tied up for lack of quotas and have no other means of making a living, except fishing, and yet they pay their taxes.

It is estimated that pelagic vessels hold 86% of the mackerel quotas and land at Castletownbere, in West Cork, for shipment to the continent.

The proposed expansion of this area is to facilitate foreign vessels and not Irish fishermen, because they have no quotas to fish their own grounds. It is a bad deal.

Noel Harrington

Scilly

Kinsale

Co Cork