Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs

The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara

2:00 am

Photo of Victor BoyhanVictor Boyhan (Independent)
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That is great. Thanks a lot. Ms Bocquel highlighted in her introduction and in the report the very strong dependence on mackerel and Dublin Bay prawns. Clearly diversification is always a challenge, but when you have a market, you respond to that. On diversification and adding species, what is BIM doing on those challenges? It is relying very heavily on those two species. That is great as long as the demand is there and the price is there, which is critically important, but what are the challenges with that and what is BIM doing to address them?