Inland Fisheries Ireland is urging anyone that sees suspicious activity regarding the illegal harvesting of oysters to report it.
Sean Long is a director for the South West river basin district with Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI).
He was speaking after over 1,000 illegally harvested oysters were seized in Kenmare Bay.
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IFI officers saw people hand-picking the oysters in the bay, which is a special conservation zone and collecting oysters without a licence is illegal.
The oysters were returned to the bay after IFI recovered them.
Sean Long says they were working on information provided to them and says it was a significant operation in South Kerry:
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