Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: BirdWatch Ireland
2:00 pm
Thomas Pringle (Donegal South West, Independent)
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Ms Egan referred to the citizen science initiative. Does that envisage fishermen providing information rather than just citizens as such? From speaking to fishermen, I know they complain that surveys are done in areas where they would never fish. They see very big marks of herring in a particular area which is never surveyed.
It is the local knowledge of the fishermen that could be also fed into the survey system.