Fear in Cork’s Fishing Communities Over Threat to Slash Mackerel Quota
West Cork councillors have warned that proposals to slash the mackerel quota for next year will devastate fishing communities such as Castletownbere and have called on the government to fight to ensure it doesn’t come into effect.
The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), an international scientific body whose advice on fish stock levels is used by the EU to set fishing quotas, has recommended a 70pc cut in the EU’s mackerel quota next year as well as major reductions in the blue whiting and boarfish quotas...
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