Irish Fishing Group Demands Mackerel Quota Transfer as Compensation Over ‘Poor’ Brexit Trade Deal
24th December 2020
Mackerel is the most valuable catch for the Irish fishing fleet
Credit: Vincent van Zeijst/Wikimedia
Negotiations on a Brexit trade agreement concluded today (Thursday 24 December) with what European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen described as “a good deal”.
And the body is demanding compensation in the form of a transfer of quotas in mackerel Ireland’s most lucrative catch from other EU fishing states.
“We cannot stand idly by and allow decades of investment in developing a successful enterprise, to be sacrificed by the shape of this very poor deal,” KFO chief executive Seán O’Donoghue said in a statement.