Thank you Meabh Harrington! Dolf D'hondt, Chairperson, Save Our Sprat Bantry Bay presents Meabh Harrington with a gift for her support & commitment to saving the sprat in our bay. We asked Meabh about her motivation for signing:
"I've lived next to the sea in Bantry all my life and we've always fished for mackerel in summer months. I hate seeing the pair trawlers in the bay. They are decimating the sprat population and destroying the ecosystem in the bay. The comparison to how short the mackerel season is and how small the fish have gotten has to be linked to this type of sprat fishing. It makes me sad, and angry when I see the trawlers. The government needs to sort these problems out and protect our environmental resources sooner rather than later."
Please join Meabh and sign our petition! We are asking the Government for a moratorium (pause) on all sprat fishing in irish coastal waters until the studies are undertaken and we have the scientific data to enable sustainable sprat fishing and protection of the food source for all marine and birdlife that share Bantry Bay.
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