Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney has expressed his concern at the threat to Ireland's whitefish fleet, ahead of the upcoming EU Fisheries negotiations in Brussels.
The Minister said that the Commission had produced a "devastating and unnecessary set of the most severe whitefish quota cuts".
He said that "If the Commission's quota proposals remain unchanged, we are facing an overall 20% cut to our whitefish and prawn quotas for 2015."
Minister Coveney said:" In the Celtic Sea, the Commission wants to dramatically cut the key whitefish stocks on which our fleet are dependant".
According to the Department, the Commission's proposal is to cut Cod by 64%, Haddock by 41%, Pollack by 20%, Skates and Rays by 20%, Whiting by 14%, Monkfish by 12% and Hake by 4%.
Mr Coveney said the cuts are based on a very narrow interpretation of the available scientific advice and are, in his view, completely unjustified.
He said he will be working with the industry and other EU member states to try and avoid the level of cuts but he said he feels "this will be an uphill task given the scale of the whitefish cuts being proposed."
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