Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Mackerel Quota Allocation: Iasc Mara Teoranta
4:00 pm
Mr. Don Hoctor:
That would definitely be a problem because they have far greater resources.
In terms of the 2,000 tonnes, that is a figure that would make the majority of the plants down south and the other plants in Donegal viable. We were operating at those type of levels five or six years ago and we were reasonably profitable, but the levels have come down dramatically. In terms of volume, we are probably down 40% on where we were three or four years ago.