Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
Ms Sin?ad McSherry:
On the exclusive economic zone, there are several within the EU. They are waters for which the EU can negotiate access to. A lot of fish stocks are migratory. They do not tend to stay in the one place. Fleets have to move with the stock at times in order to have access to them and that is what those negotiations are about. Equally, some of the negotiations are about the distribution and the allocation of the relevant stocks.