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The “poor” management of NEIFCA, which is taxpayer-funded and has a budget of more than £1million, has put “put our livelihoods, our communities, and the future of our industry at stake”, the fishermen wrote in their letter.
At an online association meeting held in December to discuss the phenomenon, Chief David McCandless and Deputy Chief Ian Davis did not attend, sending a representative instead.
At the session, it was concluded a critical step in understanding the impact of the incident was to undertake population analysis of the impacted areas and agreed NEIFCA, as the local agency, would conduct the research.
However, “over two months after this meeting, and by NEIFCA’s own admission, no action has been taken to investigate impacted populations”.
