Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Total Allowable Catches and Quotas for 2015 under Common Fisheries Policy: BirdWatch Ireland

2:30 pm

Ms Melanie Gomes:

I will try to forward a copy of the New Economics Foundation's report which deals with stocks.

A question was asked about oysters, but I do not know whether they are of the Crassostrea or ostrea variety. We favour native oysters, partly because the other ones breed in Irish waters. I totally agree with Deputy Martin Ferris that we should back the locals because that is how the stock should be managed. He may have had another question, but I did not write it down. Did he have another question that I did not answer?