Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats)
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Obviously, this would not work for all aspects, but there is a question as to whether from a fisheries science perspective we are better off leaving the big fish in because they are the ones that are actually the most fecund; they are the ones that will actually lend to the next generation. Obviously, it depends on the fisheries. It is not going to work with trawling and all the rest, but is that something Mr. Lynch has looked at or considered? It is sort of the same as the v-notching and stuff, whereby if people catch a bearing female, it goes back in.