Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
Sprat Fishing: Discussion
2:00 am
Dr. Ciaran Kelly:
Yes, it has. It has been under way for several years. Unfortunately, one of the difficult parts of doing science is that it takes a long time to get this information to the table. That is doubly so in the case of fishery science, where you have to work across an international community and work through intergovernmental organisations such as ICES. We are well on the path to the process. As I said, and just for the record, the expectation is that we may be in a position to do this in 2027. It also depends on a number of other factors.
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