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A West Clare fishing representative claims the EU fish quotas agreed this week highlight the need for a designated Fisheries Minister in the next Dáil. It comes as European Fisheries Ministers have reached agreement on quotas for Irish and EU fishers for 2025. Speaking after the agreement was finalised, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue said the Government's priority was to secure Irish fishers' ability to catch mackerel and herring "in addition to the traditional white fish stocks". Carrigaholt-based Chair of Irish Charter Skippers Association and representative on the National Inshore Fisheries Forum, Luke Aston, says the fisheries sector has never had proper representation in the Houses of the Oireachtas.