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

Mr. John Menarry:

On importing seafood into Ireland, Bord Iascaigh Mhara is a development agency for the fishing industry, yet one of its pats on the back when its representatives attended the committee was, and this might not be the correct wording, regarding the work they did in helping processors import product into Ireland more efficiently. We had a case where BIM was supposed to be helping us to develop but now it is fighting against us. It has a claim to fame regarding encouraging imports. Reference was made to buzzwords but it is the case that everything we catch is wild, free range and organic, yet BIM, instead of supporting that, is supporting processors to import and is fighting against us. It is-----

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