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Monday Dec 28, 2020
Irish fishers will have to get ‘fair share’ of fishing quotas – O’Sullivan
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Monday Dec 28, 2020
The future conservation of fishing stocks and preservation of species will have to be well managed when it comes to negotiating future fishing quotas with the UK.
That’s the warning from Green MEP Grace O’Sullivan who was commenting on the EU-UK Trade deal that was struck on Christmas Eve.
The deal will see twenty five percent (25%) of EU boats’ fishing rights in UK waters transferred to UK fishing fleets over a transition period of five and a half years.
After that period, annual negotiations on fishing quotas for both sides will be worked out between them.
Some Irish fishers have expressed their dismay at the Brexit deal which will see a decline in the quotas of fish they will be able to catch in UK waters in the future.
Here’s Grace O’Sullivan.
Out words: in Ireland
Dur: 00:28
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