John Lynch

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CountryWide · A fisherman's perspective on MPA's · 6 Jun 2026 podcast

And that is where the concern is, because there's a big fear that those strictly protected areas will be close to the coast.

And the closer to the coast it is, the smaller the vessels it impacts.

and small vessels are the least mobile when it comes to moving to a new area.

If you make a strictly protected, marine protected area close to the coast, and it's 20 miles long, and goes out to sea 10 miles, well that's going to eliminate the fishing activity of a lot of very small vessels.

Yeah, really a bit of both, I suppose.

I mean, there is potential advantages, but in taking those advantages, we need to be careful that we don't upset the whole thing and have unintended consequences of putting people out of business.

I mean, each MPA will have to be designed to protect the feature that has been identified.

So if it's a species feature, there's a different way of managing that than if it's a hard feature on the bottom.

So there's different ways of managing different features.

There's also the issue of where if you put an MPA in an area where there currently is a heavily fished area and it's productive year after year.

Some fishing areas are like that, you know, they're just particularly in terms of nephrops.

That kind of thing, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

And they're sedentary.

So they live in that type of seabed and they stay there.

They've been there year after year for however long they're being fished.

And if you were to put an MPA in the middle of that kind of an area and the vessels have to move away out of the MPA, then they may increase their impact on the environment.

Because if they're not in the area of the most dense population of the Dublin Bay prawns, well, then they're going to have to fish harder to catch their quota.

Remember, the quota won't change because the stock is the same.

So the quota will be the same.

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