Seanad debates

Thursday, 21 November 2002

Fisheries (Amendment) Bill, 2002: Second Stage.

 

It is a small element to our overall economy but it is vital to the areas I mentioned and has a right to the same kind of protection. I would like to know the level to which the inspectoral system operates in other countries. Is it fair that France has such an artificially high level of quotas for different fish species, which the French never catch? Is it fair for them to preserve those fish quotas when it comes to subsequent talks? They then trade them off to other countries when they cannot absorb their own fish.

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