Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Fishing Industry: Discussion

5:00 pm

Mr. Micheál O'Mahony:

Yes. Our job is to make sure what is on board is logged. That information is then passed to the Spanish authorities in order that they can make a reckoning. Under the Common Fisheries Policy primacy in reckoning against national quota primarily lies with the flag state.