Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

10:00 am

Photo of John PerryJohn Perry (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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I was at Mullaghmore yesterday and I know this endangered fish comes to the west of Ireland and that, while there is huge potential for developing tourism along the Atlantic corridor, there was a major issue until 2009 regarding sustainability and recreational fishing. It is amazing that we cannot just get a recreational licence for this fish. It just comes to the north west for the summer months. I know there is an application with the Department for a recreational licence for sea angling.