Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forage Fish: Discussion
11:30 am
Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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That is the nucleus of the report and that answer is amorphous. If Dr. Pikitch sets out that this is a very important aspect in trying to achieve the objectives of the report, surely there is in place a monitoring system which is overarching so as to achieve these objectives. This appears to be important in terms of the conventional yield and ensuring there is the biomass for predators and intermediary species. As Dr. Pikitch said, the counting can be done, but how often should it be done to achieve the objectives identified?