Codd: Unfair EU Quotas are destroying Wexford Fishing Industry

Wexford fishermen were sold out as part of a giveaway to the EU according to the Aontu Local Election Candidate in the Rosslare LEA. Jim Codd has accused the establishment political parties of not only presiding over this sellout since 1972, but of also attempting to stifle any criticism of EU policies in Ireland.

“Once prosperous fishing communities like Kilmore Quay have withered away to nothing as a result of the EUs grossly unfair fishing quotas for Ireland,” Mr Codd said. “Trawlers sit idle while much larger factory vessels from Spain and France overfish off our coast. How can the quotas be about conservation when little effort is made to patrol their catches?”

“Kilmore Quay Fishermen have been ignored and, much worse, criminalised by successive Irish governments. Only recently, two Kilmore Quay Fishermen were once again targeted by the state and threatened with arrest for alleged overfishing. Despite this causing outrage in the locality, not one single elected rep voiced their concern for the well being of these hard working people. It seems that there is a terrible fear to be labelled sceptical of the European Union in this Brexit saturated world.”

“My priorities for fishing as part of the Aontu team in County Wexford will be to seek an all out ban on super-trawlers operating off our coast, end the criminalisation of our fishing crews, fight for the introduction of a single fisheries payment for fishermen and take on the EU on their unjust quotas without remorse. Aontu is growing rapidly across the thirty two counties of Ireland and we will not be afraid to take on the EU and challenge the cosy eurocrat consensus.”