Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Fishing Industry: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

4:00 pm

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It does that, as far as I know. It has a good relationship with the enforcement agencies in the other member states. The way this should work, technically, is that wherever one fishes, the member state which has responsibility for that zone is there to enforce the rules. The electronic logbook should make available to everybody the information about what boats are catching in terms of species and weights, and when that catch is landed into a port those figures should match up. That is how the system should work.

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