EU membership is hurting Irish fisheries industry, IFPO says

Fishing boats at a harbor in County Donegal in northwest Ireland
Fishing boats at a harbor in County Donegal in northwest Ireland | Photo courtesy of shawnwil23/Shutterstock
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E.U. parliamentary elections are slated for June of this year, and with it, the head of the Irish Fish Producers Organization (IFPO) wants radical changes to the E.U.’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), claiming the CFP has decimated, rather than propped up, the Irish seafood sector. Aodh O’Donnell, the CEO of the IFPO, an industry body representing the country’s fish producers, wants new members of the European Commission to launch a full review of the CFP “to properly address the inequities in…


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