We have abandoned our fishing rights

I READ about the prospect of new fish farms being built off the west coast and how this might create 4,500 jobs (Irish Examiner, October 6).

The fact is there should not only be 4,500 employed or 45,000 or even 450,000 in the fish industry, but there is little evidence that we have such an industry at all.

Despite having the second-largest expanse of water in the EU, we have completely abandoned our fishing rights under the common fisheries policy, which we should now abandon. The waters off our coasts are being plundered by the Russians, the Chinese and the Spanish.