Inshore Fisheries
Dail Éireann — 2023-03-09
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Catherine Connolly (IND), Galway West

My question is specific. I am looking for the status of the programme for Government commitment to ensure that inshore waters are protected for smaller fishing vessels. I ask this in the context of a policy that was readied in 2018. It is now 2023. In those years since, there has been a significant increase in the number of sprat caught. We need a drastic reduction in the annual sprat catch and that is not happening. The opposite is happening.

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Sitting date: 2023-03-09