87. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the reason that twenty years after the compulsory drift net buyout in Mayo and nationally, salmon stocks have not recovered to the levels promised by Inland Fisheries Ireland and Government scientific advisers at the time; and if he will account for the economic and social damage caused to fishing families and local shops in communities such as Cong, County Mayo, given that the same ecological pressures identified by fishermen then, predation, poor river maintenance, and marine overfishing, remain unaddressed today; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70000/25]

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87. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the reason that twenty years after the compulsory drift net buyout in Mayo and nationally, salmon stocks have not recovered to the levels promised by Inland Fisheries Ireland and Government scientific advisers at the time; and if he will account for the economic and social damage caused to fishing families and local shops in communities such as Cong, County Mayo, given that the same ecological pressures identified by fishermen then, predation, poor river maintenance, and marine overfishing, remain unaddressed today; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70000/25]

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