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. John Lynch:
It is certainly something I have been promoting for a long time that the minimum sizes for some of the species need to be reviewed, in my opinion. I am not a scientist, but in my opinion as a fisherman. I have fished for nearly 40 years. I have my own vessel. I ended up in the fisheries representative position I am in now. However, it has for a long time been my opinion that a lot of the minimum landing conservation reference sizes are too small.