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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 19 Apr 1978

Vol. 305 No. 7

Written Answers. - Fishery Harbour Standards.

421.

asked the Minister for Fisheries the standards required for a major fishery harbour.

I presume that the question refers to fishery harbour centres as provided by the Fishery Harbour Centres Act, 1968. A site suitable for development into a fishery harbour centre should, as far as possible, possess the following main requirements:—

(1) Convenient distance to fishing grounds.

(2) Good location in regard to existing or planned communications to a potential fish market.

(3) Adequate and suitable space both on the sea side and the land side for development of an efficient fishing station. This should include suitable areas for fish processing and auxiliary industries, boat building and repair, offices and shops, traffic and parking space for lorries and other vehicles, garages, and so forth.

(4) Attractive residential location for the fishermen and their families and for fish traders and other groups engaged in the fishery and ancillary industrial enterprises.

(5) Safe access from the open sea in all weather and at all stages of the tide.

(6) Safe natural or artificial shelter in the harbour at all times for all the vessels likely to use the harbour.

(7) Reasonable initial cost of obtaining adequate depth of water in the harbour approach and at the quays.

(8) Low cost of maintaining adequate depth of water in the approach and at the quays.

(9) Suitable ground conditions at the site for adequate arrangements of breakwaters, basins, quays and shore facilities, and so forth to be constructed in one unit or in stages, according to a general plan.

(10) The site should be unrestricted for acquisition of the land required for the fishing port project.

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