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Government Former State Scientist Calls on Ireland to Push for Renationalisation of EU Waters
10th February 2021
Ireland is due to bear the brunt of a return of EU quotas to Britain, at a 15 per cent overall reduction in Irish quotas
The Government’s soft-touch approach on access to Rockall’s fishing waters for Irish boats is “totally unacceptable”, a former state marine scientist has said.
As
Times.ie reports today, Dr Peter Tyndall has also called on the government to push for a renationalisation of European waters to allow coastal states greater access to their own fish stocks.
He said the EU could still handle the management of shared and migratory stocks under a “more honest” Common Fisheries Policy (CFP).
Meat and seafood has been left to rot in ports as shipments have been delayed by reams of paperwork. Supermarket shelves north and south of the border have been bare of certain products. Mechanics can’t get car parts, and supplies of certain bikes to Irish cycle shops have stopped.
Even unionists who fought wholeheartedly for Brexit are now grumbling about its effects.
The only comfort for the politicians who planned Brexit is that it has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of Covid-19. And they can still cling to the hope that the problems will be ironed out.
British ministers put the early logjams down to “teething problems”. But as one commentator remarked that, for some, Brexit now feels more like having root canal surgery without the benefit of an anaesthetic.
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