Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Aquaculture Licensing Process: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:30 pm

Dr. Cecil Beamish:

Others have judgments on other things but we are dealing with the judgment we have. The other way to look at it is that once the system and its architecture is built, we will have a very significant aquaculture asset to help us know what we are doing. Any food product one is selling requires a high level of environmental certification. It is increasingly the case in the wild fish area that if one does not have environmental certification, one loses a very significant portion of the price. Our aquaculture industry will be in a better place by virtue of having this, albeit it is a painful child to give birth to.

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