With decisions under FRAP 2015/2016 under various fishing sectors having been announced by the Delegated Authority (“DA”) and with the upcoming FRAP 2020 decisions in mind it is appropriate to reflect on the rights of applicants who wish their internal appeals against such decisions to be decided on urgently.

2020 marks the next significant set of fishing rights allocations with the all-important Hake Trawl and Small Pelagic sectors now eventually coming up for re-allocation.

A policy phenomenon which appeared in FRAP 2015/16 sector policies can have devastating effects on a group’s historic fishing allocations.

Due to recent issues in the fishing industry regarding the interpretation and implementation of the current DRS, it is of vital importance that the fishing industry (including all affected sectors) submit detailed comments by the deadline. It is essential that the representations are co-ordinated and contain combined comments from all the various sectors. In this regard such comments should be submitted by an umbrella body such as FISHSA.

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