Fishing Vessel Licences.

Thursday, 15 June 2006

Questions (29)

Thomas P. Broughan

Question:

29 Mr. Broughan asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the size of Ireland’s licensed sea fishery fleets for 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 and 2001; and the impact of the decommissioning scheme for the whitefish and shellfish fleets on the number of boat licences in these sectors since October 2005. [23206/06]

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Minister of State at the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources (Mr. Browne)

The number of vessels registered in the Irish Fishing Fleet at 31 December for the years 2001-2005 by segment are contained in the following tables. The impact of the decommissioning scheme is that currently Irelands Fishing Fleet has been reduced by 30 vessels, of which 21 were from the Polyvalent segment and 9 from the Specific segment. The total capacity of these 30 vessels was 4152 GT and 13461 Kws.

2001

Segment	No. of vessels
Pelagic	23
Beamer	8
Polyvalent	1,391
Specific/Aquaculture	166
Total	1,588

2002

Segment	No. of vessels
Pelagic	23
Beamer	10
Polyvalent	1,380
Specific/Aquaculture	183
Total	1,596

2003

Segment	No. of vessels
Pelagic	21
Beamer	10
Polyvalent	1,319
Specific/Aquaculture	170
Total	1,520

2004

Segment	No. of vessels
Pelagic	23
Beamer	12
Polyvalent	1,254
Specific/Aquaculture	148
Total	1,437

2005

Segment	No. of vessels
Pelagic	23
Beamer	13
Polyvalent	1,230
Specific/Aquaculture	150
Total	1,416