Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

A very important process is under way to get to a stage where we are fishing all stocks at maximum sustainable yield and where we do not see them depleted and overfished and a situation where they cannot be fished or are disappearing. The science and its assessment of them is central to that. I will ask Dr. Kelly, our scientific expert in the Marine Institute, who knows a hell of a lot more than I do on this, to outline who leads out on this at national level and pulling together the Marine Institute's assessments.