Irish fishing and seafood group slams EU quota agreement for 2022

Irish fishing and seafood group slams EU quota agreement for 2022. Cormac Burke, Chairman, Irish Fishing and Seafood Alliance, has written the following comment on the recent end-the-year European Fish Council that decided upon fishing opportunities for 2022. “As the Irish fishing and processing industry stands like a dazed and bruised boxer in the corner of the ring as a result of the 2021 battering, the EU has dealt yet another, and almost fatal, body blow by more or less thwarting any small attempt for Ireland to get a crumb of whitefish or pelagic quota back for its suffering fishermen. Not content on slamming the door shut on the merest suggestion of Ireland getting returned a single kilo of the quota lost during the corrupt ‘negotiations’ of the BREXIT deal where everyone else caught a cough but Ireland was administered the flu, the knife is now being twisted even further with deserved and justified quota increases, and based on solid, positive ICES stock advice, again being ...