Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Ms Egan referred to the citizen science initiative. Does that envisage fishermen providing information rather than just citizens as such? From speaking to fishermen, I know they complain that surveys are done in areas where they would never fish. They see very big marks of herring in a particular area which is never surveyed.

It is the local knowledge of the fishermen that could be also fed into the survey system.