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IRELAND’S NAVAL SERVICE detained a Irish registered fishing vessel yesterday evening for “alleged breaches of technical fishing regulations.”
The vessel was detained 19 nautical miles South East of Mine Head in County Waterford.
Once detained, the vessel was escorted by L.É. EMER to Cork, where it was handed over to Gardaí in the early hours of this morning.
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thats it guys go after your own, dont worry about the french or spanish!!!
They should go after anyone who breaks the rules regardless of their nationality.
Not the NS’s fault the trawler exceeded its quota
The last four or five stories similar to this on the journal were Spanish or foreign boats.
would you expect the gaurds to let you off for speeding cause u have an Irish or ‘local’ reg?
Irish fishermen are operating at severe disadvantage to foreign vessels. Successive Govts have sold out the fishing industry . These men and some women work under terrible and dangerous conditions to bring fish ashore. They should get greater recognition for their efforts and the Irish authorities should stop pandering to Brussels in relation to fishery policy.
200 billion we’ve handed over in fish so far. Time to call a halt. Claim our waters back and tell Brussels to take a hike. The EU Irish proxy navy should take a hike too
Spanish and Icelandic vessels out-pace the antiquated Irish Navy rust buckets. Easier diplomatically to hammer their own.
Don’t think they would outpace a fast RIB though…
They would open fire if they ran
Actually they are not faster than the Irish vessels and certainly not faster than the ribs they use with twin 40 or 60 horse power engines…….and anyway just cause it a registered Irish vessel does it mean it Irish owned NO,I wonder how many people here that put out negative comments about the Navel Service actually served time onboard one their vessels…..
Sean
We Irish love to believe that we’re victims when we get caught breaking the law. For years Fishery Protection Officers were physically assaulted when doing their duty and there is something decidedly dishonest about your claim that our Naval Services discriminates against Irish citizens when they daily work. You clearly display your moral compass with contributions such as that!
Ireland owns 23% of Europe’s fishing waters yet only 4% of the trade. ’nuff said!
is that not 2.3% instead of 23%?all the fishing off Ireland and UK are owned by us?
No 23% Vinnie, here’s a map of what Ireland actually looks like:
http://www.marine.ie/NR/rdonlyres/07A3B2CD-E351-4FD5-86FD-8E06E9FB1A80/0/RealMapofIrelandwithEEZKey_Nov09_web.jpg
And here’s a map of the EU fishing zones, which also doubles as a terrible attempt at drawing but fairly spot on all the same:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b7/European_Union_Exclusive_Economic_Zones.PNG
your codding me
ouch ;-)
They were fishing in the wrong plaice !
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