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Updated Details For Fishermen’s Dublin Protest Demo 23rd June 2021
Following a meeting between protest organisers IS&WFPO, IS&EFPO, IFPO, KFO, IFP&EA, IIMRO and Dublin Port Authority & Garda Siochana the guidelines for the Dublin Protest & Unity Demo have been updated as follows TIMETABLE Tuesday 22nd June 2021...
Interim report of the Seafood Sector Task Force released
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue has now received the interim report of the Seafood Sector Task Force. The Minister set up the Seafood Sector Task Force to examine the implications for the Irish Fishing industry and coastal communities...
Marine Institute calls on fishermen to participate in development of fish mapping app
Researchers at the Marine Institute are calling on fishermen from around the country to participate in a new project aimed at reducing unwanted catches across harvesting practices, in an ecological, economic, and socially sustainable way. The project, IFISH, will use...
Equal Rights And Equal Opportunities For Irish Fishermen Dublin Demo Details
Equal Rights And Equal Opportunities For Irish Fishermen Dublin Protest Demo Date: 23rd June 2021 Times and Locations: 3:30 am – 5:30 am, Flotilla upriver through East Link Bridge 10:00am – 11:30 am, Show & Tell, John Rogerson's Quay 12:00 Noon – Protest &...
New UK Fisheries Technical Measures For Celtic Sea Areas
Following the conclusion of annual negotiations with the UK and the EU, the MMO provides an update on proposed changes to Celtic Sea Conservation measures. New measures for all demersal otter trawls and seines in the Celtic Sea mixed fisheries are to be introduced...
UK and EU sign agreement on catch levels for 2021
Agreement covers catch limits for 70 shared fish stocks worth approximately £333m in fishing opportunities to the UK fleet. The UK has now concluded annual fisheries negotiations with the EU, providing certainty for the fishing industry on catch limits for the...
Fear Grows Over Fuel Taxation For Fishing vessels
WTO negotiations on fisheries subsidies are now entering the final stage. After two decades of dialogue, trade ministers from 164 countries are resolved to secure an agreement ahead of the ministerial conference of 15 July this year. The European fishing industry...
Our Ocean: Our Future
Ireland’s marine sector looks forward in final week of Oceans of Learning series Ensuring a sustainable future for our ocean is one of the great missions of the next decade. The ocean is our life source, supporting humanity and every other organism on Earth and is...
600 tonnes of marine waste has been collected by Ireland’s seafood sector since 2015
Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue T.D today paid tribute to the men and women working in Ireland’s seafood sector for their continued efforts to reduce Ireland’s marine waste as part of the Clean Oceans Initiative. To date, the...
Icefish 2021 – much more than an exhibition
With more than a year of pandemic restrictions this September’s Icefish will provide exhibitors with the long overdue facility for multiple face to face business meetings in one place. European and Global Vaccination programmes are progressing well, with planned...
KFO welcomes High Court ruling against SFPA
The Chief Executive of the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation, Seán O’Donoghue has welcomed today’s High Court ruling which found against the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) for its failure to approve a new state-of-the-art conveyor belt fish weighing...
Court appearance for Skipper of Spanish longline vessel
A Spanish skipper was in court today charged with fishing illegally in Irish waters. Vicente Meitin Sanjuan, the master of a foreign sea fishing vessel, the Punta Candieira faces three charges all relating to illegal fishing inside the Irish limits. The 52 year old...
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