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:

That is correct, but it is almost impossible to release big fish and keep whatever in-between sized ones. The theory would be that if we let more small ones away, they grow to be bigger, and catching the big ones can be managed by the quota.