Conserving Fish Stocks

Question 1

What steps are being made to conserve fish stocks?

Answer 1

EU is taking steps to reduce overfishing

Irish Conservation Box is an area of 100,000km that has been established

Irish waters

The Box is an important spawning ground where herring, mackerel, hake haddock breed
Fishing is severely restricted in this area

Scientists check the numbers of species of fish caught in seas and quotas place on the amount of each species that can be caught

The number of trawlers are being reduced and the owners and workers ca retire with an EU pension

The mesh sizes of nets are fixed so that juvenile fish can escape

Fishing season for some species is shortened

Trawlers from countries outside the EU are not allowed fish in Irish Water