Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Harnessing Ireland's Ocean Wealth: Marine Co-ordination Group
Dr. Cecil Beamish:
Supertrawlers should not be dredging. They should not touch the seabed. What they are fishing for is not on the seabed. They fish pelagic species which, by definition, are high up the water column; therefore, they use mid-water trawls. It would not make any sense for them to touch the seabed.
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