Sun Apr 13, 2008 3:15 pm
Has anyone got any ideas of were/how I can find out how much (both in weight and financial values) mullet (Tick-lipped, Thin-lipped and Golden-grey) was landed commercially in the Republic's waters for say, the last 5 years.
I don't imagine there's much of a commercial fishery for them, and getting them protection as a sport species like Bass would be good.
I feel a campaign coming on.......
Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:37 pm
Send pete a pm, if anyone can get that info he can now he's come over to the dark side...
Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:03 pm
Bradan wrote:Send pete a pm, if anyone can get that info he can now he's come over to the dark side...
Hopefully, the info is out there somewhere in the public domain already. I don't think we'd get very far using "insider" type info....
Any pointers, pete?
Sun Apr 13, 2008 9:34 pm
That's an excellent link, jd. Apart from being a bit outdated, it has exactly the info required.
In the year 01/01/2000-31/12/2000, 11.2 tonnes of Mullet were landed with a value of IR£21,025.
In the absence of more up to date info for recent years, it gives us a baseline to work from:
Each tonne of Mullet had a commercial value of IR£1,877.23.
1,000 kilos equated IR£1,877.23 or IR£1.88 per kilo.
That's what, just a bit over 2 Euro per kilo. A mullet weighing 1 kilo is surely worth a lot more than a couple of Euros.
But we'd need more recent year's figures. Anyone know a friendly TD who could ask a question in the Dail for us?
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