Seanad debates

Wednesday, 15 October 2003

Game fishing is a very important industry. I support Senator Finucane's proposal to put together research and development units from the game fishing and Marine Institute. It would be a retrograde step to take 15 people from the Central Fisheries Board and the regional boards and put them into the Marine Institute. These people have a lot of experience and have done tremendous work. There are many good fishing rivers and lakes throughout the country and we have a tremendous number of people with enormous expertise and experience. It would be a retrograde step to move people from the Central Fisheries Board and the regional authorities to the Marine Institute because there is a system in place whereby the fisheries boards can liaise with each other. Ways have been found to improve tributaries to lakes and rivers and to improve the spawning beds. We could lose some of this expertise if we put the research and development section of game fishing, which is under the control of the Central Fisheries Board and the regional boards, under the Marine Institute.

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