Cunningham launches SF fishing charter in Clogherhead
SINN Fein Councillor Tom Cunningham has launched the Party’s new 24 point Charter designed to protect our fishing industry, coastal communities.
The Charter for Fishers, Coastal Communities and the Islands is the work of numerous consultations with fishers, NGOs and coastal communities and Cllr Cunningham launched the document in his home town of Clogherhead along with Imelda Munster TD.
Cllr Cunningham said “this is an action plan whose guiding principles are driven by people who know this area best, those involved in the fishing industry and those who live in fishing communities: those that have a vested interest in making sure they can get a living from the ocean, whose lives and livelihoods rely on the ocean.”
Cllr Cunningham called all on all political Parties to “get behind this Charter to protect and support our fishing communities. Clogherhead and the Irish fishing industry have been badly let down by successive governments and indeed by the European Union. This Charter will form the bedrock of Sinn Fein’s proposals in the renegotiation of the Common Fisheries Policy and other agreements in Europe.’
Imelda Munster TD said “if we are to have a decent, reasonable and sustainable fishing industry here in Clogherhead and throughout the country, where fishermen and the local communities can make a decent living and thrive, then I believe that this Charter has those basic principles that are needed for this to happen.”