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HEAD TO HEAD: The current system is crude, wasteful and unfair, and threatens the future of our coastal communities, argues Lorcán Ó Cinneide.

YES: THERE ARE good reasons to have quotas on landings of fish. It is vital to ensure the biological sustainability of fish stocks and to rebuild stocks where necessary, where the resource is mobile and shared among many players. This is especially true today, with advances in fish-finding and catching technologies which have a real capacity to threaten stocks. But the current system of management, including quotas, in the EU and here in Ireland needs radical change.