A Donegal TD is welcoming an agreement with China that will benefit sea food producers in the North West.
The agreement allows the resumption of the exports of live Irish brown crab to China.
Independent Deputy Thomas Pringle says the loss to export sales was close to €5 million in 2016.
However, he says he is concerned it took almost a year and a half to reach a solution with the Chinese while the UK had the ban lifted within 12 months and France after only eight months.
Fianna Fail Deputy Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher says the news has come, however late, as a relief for the for crab fish sector sector in Donegal which depend on the important Chinese Market.
Deputy Pringle told Ocean FM News of the situation that had existed for Irish live brown crab during the ban.
