Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Crisis in Ireland's Inshore Fishing Industry: Discussion
Mr. Eamon Dixon:
Yes. We have been lobbying for an increase in the hook and line quota for quite a while. We have been doing this through the National Inshore Fisheries Forum, NIFF, and through smaller organisations throughout the country. In that year we were given a significant chance to land to prove we could actually land quota, and we did do that. We were stopped, I believe, in the middle of June that year.