date:Aug 08, 2012
The Minister said: I was disappointed and frustrated that the final settlement at the December Council last year had resulted in a 10% cut for Irish Sea herring in 2012. This came about because the Commission implemented a policy to cut catches for those fish stocks which did not have a full analytical assessment. But the decision to cut the herring catch ran contrary to the independent scientific advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES).
ICES undertook an in