Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----whereby we are going to introduce an obligation to land everything the fishermen catch. Therefore, we need to balance the issues. If we simply have dramatic cuts to quotas, particularly for whitefish in mixed fisheries, we will increase the amount of discarding that takes place at a time when we are about to end the practice, through policy. This will be a very complex negotiation about trying to balance the ability to get the Common Fisheries Policy implemented in the next few years while at the same time deriving maximum commercial value within a sustainable plan for fishing in the next year.

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