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Value of Irish Fisheries

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    #62
    Capt'n Midnight
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    meglome wrote: »
    The EU are the ones that brought in the quotas to stop over-fishing.
    What I was alluding to was that the "quotas" were short term political compromises and not in the long term interest of the fish or fisheries.

    The truth is that our seas are vastly overfished regardless of whose figures you pick, and the future value of fishing will be rather smalle than we'd like. We've got big boats off the cost of Africa. Fishing boats are more efficient and more automated than ever before. You can't keep X jobs in an industry when a handful of the largest boats are quite capable of landing the countries quota fo fish with a tiny fraction of the crew


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    #63
    Scofflaw
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    What I was alluding to was that the "quotas" were short term political compromises and not in the long term interest of the fish or fisheries.

    The truth is that our seas are vastly overfished regardless of whose figures you pick, and the future value of fishing will be rather smalle than we'd like. We've got big boats off the cost of Africa. Fishing boats are more efficient and more automated than ever before. You can't keep X jobs in an industry when a handful of the largest boats are quite capable of landing the countries quota fo fish with a tiny fraction of the crew

    That's true - Atlantic Dawn (now in the Dutch fleet, as far as I know) had 5% of Ireland's quota. That's what drives the small fishermen out of business - but it has nothing to do with the existence of quotas, or the CFP.

    cordially,
    Scofflaw


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    ei.sdraob
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    Scofflaw wrote: »
    That's true - Atlantic Dawn (now in the Dutch fleet, as far as I know) had 5% of Ireland's quota. That's what drives the small fishermen out of business - but it has nothing to do with the existence of quotas, or the CFP.

    cordially,
    Scofflaw

    Someone in fishing told me that some large boar got sold to dutch (i presume its the Dawn)

    and their quota increased 3 fold or something


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