Press Release: Dermot Ahern ready for major battle on three fronts as EU Fisheries Council convenes for week-long negotiations

The Irish Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Dermot Ahern, embarked on a full week of negotiations critical to Ireland's fisheries interests on 15 December 2002, anticipating the toughest ever meeting of the European Council of Fisheries Ministers in Brussels. Key items on the agenda were EU policy reform, the Irish Box and quotas for 2003.