1242. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Iceland, Norway, and the Faroe Islands have not availed of the quota of bluefin tuna allocated to them by ICAAT in recent years; and if he will engage with his European counterparts and these three countries and territories to work towards a reasonable and sustainable quota of bluefin tuna being allocated to Irish inshore fishermen to allow them to diversify from the limited number of species they are presently allowed to fish and to reflect the abundance of this predatory species that is being reported around the coast. [52941/21]

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1242. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Iceland, Norway, and the Faroe Islands have not availed of the quota of bluefin tuna allocated to them by ICAAT in recent years; and if he will engage with his European counterparts and these three countries and territories to work towards a reasonable and sustainable quota of bluefin tuna being allocated to Irish inshore fishermen to allow them to diversify from the limited number of species they are presently allowed to fish and to reflect the abundance of this predatory species that is being reported around the coast. [52941/21]

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