Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
Inshore Fishing: National Inshore Fishermen's Association
2:00 am
Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
The inshore sector is getting squeezed significantly. Mr. Desmond and I have had discussions on sprat. I know I am on a different side of that issue, but we do need to have sustainable management of fisheries and because there has been a lack of management in many different fisheries over the years, the witnesses are being overly impacted by that and they are sort of being squeezed by changes, such as climate change and water change, overfishing and the bigger players having a bigger voice when it comes to a lot of this. They are probably at the coal face and getting impacted by it a lot more. For Mr. Desmond's organisation, am I correct that there are approximately 1,300 people in the inshore fleet, and he represents around 200?
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