Records of commercial landings of mullet?

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#1 Post by **Tanglerat** » 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.......

#2 Post by **Bradan** » 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...

#3 Post by **Tanglerat** » 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?

#4 Post by jd » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:12 pm

I think they are non quota, but I found this.
http://www.dcmnr.gov.ie/Marine/Seafood+ ... +Landings/

#5 Post by **Tanglerat** » 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 Apart from being a bit outdated, it has exactly the info required.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?