🎣 🇮🇪 Three years after Brexit, EU members have started handing over a share of their fishing quotas to the UK.
In Ireland, these cuts are putting small coastal communities at risk.
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Fishermen Call On Public To Put Irish Fishing On The Line When Voting
Irish Fishermen have united to issue a plea to voters in the upcoming General Election to support coastal communities and safeguard our greatest national resource – OUR FISH!
Positive & wide-ranging engagement with the Cabinet of the EU Commissioner today. L-R: our CEO @aodh_donnell, Patrick Murphy CEO of @ISWFPO, Agne Razmislaviciute-Palioniene of @VSinkevicius team, Brendan Byrne CEO of IFPEA @FishExporters, Michael Treacy, EU Advisor. #fishingnews
The people here gave away 25% of our fish and our Government officials and MEPs celebrated spending 116 million of Irish Tax payers money for a brilliant facility for Foreign boats to land and fill Foreign Lorries with Irish Fish while our boats are strapped to the pier.
Happy smiling politicians.
Shows the disconnect to the fishing community.
It can accomadate 100m vessel said the Minister well How many 100m boats in the Irish fleet so we know who this infrastructure is really for!https://t.co/mGETAKjlN7
Earlier this year, The Skipper was pleased to help a French TV Film crew compile a documentary on the decommissioning scheme.
Here is the result
Irish Fishing in Peril
https://t.co/CvjFwpThcI
“Despite having some of the richest fishing grounds in Europe, Irish boats have consistently been given lower quotas of fish than those from other European countries in Irish waters," Aontú candidate Patrick Murphy said.
#gript
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