Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 March 2013

Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Sub-Committee on Fisheries

Aquaculture and Tourism: Discussion (Resumed)

10:30 am

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We need to drop a matrix so that we can consider making a choice, taking into account sustainability, local control, employment and other considerations. The major issue that would enter our minds is whether we can have a major aquaculture facility and a boom in sea angling at the same time. Does the proposal for a fish farm with 100,000 tons of fin fish affect sea angling? If it has no impact on sea angling, they are mutually exclusive and we can do both. If they do interact-----

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