Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 27 April 2005
191 Mr. Sargent asked the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources the plans he has to introduce legal protection for coarse fish in addition to the protection afforded to the pike species in order to protect stocks of other coarse fish such as bream and tench from destruction by both commercial and non-commercial interests. [13640/05]
Amharc ar fhreagraUnder the Fisheries Acts, primary responsibility for the conservation and protection of inland fisheries stocks rests with the central and regional fisheries boards. Earlier this year, I requested the views of each of the central and regional fisheries boards on the issues of prohibiting the taking of all coarse fish and their transfer alive to other waters in their respective regions with a view to determining whether a by-law banning the killing of certain or all coarse fish is necessary. I am awaiting their advice and recommendations.
