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. John Menarry:

On the point about bluefin tuna, there is an EU quota there that the Minister can ask to get. Whether he gets it or not we do not know, but he can ask for it. When the UK left the European Union last year, it had a quota of 65 tonnes, which would be of massive benefit to the inshore sector - even just a small quota like that. That 65 tonnes was 0.25% of the EU allocation, so we are not talking about hundreds of tonnes or massive amounts of quota.

The Deputy asked a question about the six-mile limit as well.