The Irish government is facing a problem unlike any other -- how will it deal with a fisherman who gave away 8,000 kilograms of monkfish last Thursday instead of dumping it at sea -- thus technically committing an offence, punishable in the Republic of Ireland with a criminal conviction if he is found guilty.
“I wanted to make statement about the system of fisheries in Ireland,” Jimmy Byrne, skipper of Saltees Quest, a vessel owned by O’Flaherty Brothers, told Fishing News.
“We