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Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue is to seek quota for Irish fishers to catch blue fin tuna. He will make the proposal at the EU Fisheries Council next Sunday. The council sets quotas annually for fish species that are caught by EU fishers.Negotiations between officials have been taking place for a number of weeks.Speaking this evening at the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture Food and the Marine, Mr McConalogue said the UK got tuna quota from the EU under the Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement and extra quota from the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic...

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