Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Sea-Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
4:20 pm
Martin Ferris (Kerry, Sinn Fein)
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I am not talking about one area but about the whole way from Kilmore Quay to Loop Head. I have been in every port and have spoken to people at the coalface. The scientific evidence does not take into account the people who are fishing it. I have had a problem for a long time with scientific evidence because it is not based on the experience of people who are part of the industry. I am told, and I have no reason to doubt it, that spurdog are thick on the ground.