Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion
2:00 am
Mr. Dominic Rihan:
There is no hiding that there are European interests which have investments in Icelandic, Faroese and Greenlandic firms, less so in Norway, but also in the UK. They are not doing anything illegal but they are complicit in the overfishing that has been ongoing for a long time. This is a long-standing company. It has been investing for many years. It has also invested in the Pacific and other places around the world. It is not a new concept but these companies are involved and they are complicit in this, in that they are fishing against quotas that have been overinflated and set unilaterally.