John Lynch
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86 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6 Jun
John Lynch’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It'll go up and down with the fluctuations, but generally it'll be the same.
And that has the potential to do more harm than good.
And not just in the Dublin Bay prawns, in other species as well.
We're going into the galley.
This is where you cook and eat, watch a bit of television.
Yeah, initially we had very little input and, you know, after making numerous requests and complaints and kicking up and whatever, the department, they listened, they listened in fairness to them and they set up a project called the MPA Life Project and we're involved with that now, fully involved with it.
And we've explained all of what I've just said to you and numerous other issues as well around the economic value of fishing and how we need to maintain it.
We're going through that process and some areas will be identified later this year and at that stage we'll get to pick or help the process of picking areas and what they would be protected for and how they'd be managed and if they're going to have an impact on...
Current fishing activity, which is our biggest concern.
We can't have people put out of business for marine protected areas.
We just can't in terms of food security and coastal communities and jobs in coastal communities.
If you go around the coast of Ireland, you'll see, yes, there's a lot of activity around the coast of Ireland, but much of it is based on fishing.
We're in grave danger of losing that.
Grave danger.
There's a lack of young people coming in.
It doesn't have to be a family.
People can come from the outside and they'll pick up the knowledge just the same as anyone else.
If they're there long enough, they'll pick it up and they'll carry it on to their children or the people that go working for them in time.
The problem is to get young people into the industry.
And in that respect, we do need to make some improvements.
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