Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 November 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Sea Fisheries Sustainability Impact Assessment: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
3:30 pm
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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It would be entirely a new departure and would be in breach of the Common Fisheries Policy's relative stability principle in that there is no national quota for this species. It is an EU quota allowing everyone to go at it hell for leather with fishermen landing everything. We really feel that would be a retrograde step.