Readers' Blog: Devastation of once thriving fishing industry under Europe

Anyone who saw at the TV programme 7 Lá (Tuesday, TG4) will surely have been shocked by the devastation of our once vibrant fishing industry since joining the then European Economic Community in 1972.

Readers' Blog: Devastation of once thriving fishing industry under Europe

Anyone who saw at the TV programme 7 Lá (Tuesday, TG4) will surely have been shocked by the devastation of our once vibrant fishing industry since joining the then European Economic Community in 1972.

We were told an industry that once provided a good living to thousands of fishermen and their families and those in the processing co-operatives from Donegal to west Cork and right around our coast, is now critically diminished and barely sustainable.

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