Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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214. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the figures for fish landed into the six fishery harbour centres; and the amount of fish landed into all the local authority harbours in the past two years for which figures are available. [29999/21]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The Department owns, operates and maintains six designated State-owned Fishery Harbour Centres, located at Castletownbere, Dingle, Dunmore East, Howth, Killybegs and Ros An Mhíl under statute.  The Department became responsible for the Fishery Harbour Centres in October 2007.  The Fishery Harbour Centres were established under the Fishery Harbour Centre Act 1968 (as amended) as centres in which to promote and develop sea fishing activities.

The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) was established under the Sea Fisheries and Maritime Act 2006 and is responsible (in conjunction with the Irish Naval Service) for the control and enforcement of Fisheries legislation. In this regard, the SFPA is the single legal competent authority responsible for the collection and reporting of fish landings into Ireland.

The figures in the attached tables provide the tonnes and value of fish landed at the Fishery Harbour Centres for the years 2018-2019 and is sourced from the SFPA. 2019 is the latest year figures are available.

The total value and volume of fish landed into Irish ports in 2018 and 2019 amounts to 316,851 tonnes and €342,635,195 in 2018 and 314,987 tonnes and €340,115,480 in 2019.  I would advise the Deputy to contact the SFPA for full details of non-Fishery Harbour Centre fish landings in the years in question.