Common Fisheries Policy
Dail Éireann — 2020-12-08
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Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (SF), Donegal

Will the Minister, with his European Union counterparts, advocate to follow the lead of Australia in banning super-trawlers from our national waters under the jurisdiction of the Common Fisheries Policy, CFP, in response to the growing outrage in Irish coastal communities at the spectacle of these huge ships hoovering up fish while inshore fishing communities are struggling so much?

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Sitting date: 2020-12-08