by Niall Duffy | Aug 4, 2023 | Ireland, News
The EU must actively oppose Norway’s setting of inflated and unilateral mackerel quotas because it impacts the long-term sustainability of this valuable European fish stock and quota. This call comes from the Irish Fish Producers Organisation, who contend that Norway...
by Niall Duffy | Apr 24, 2023 | Ireland
“We cannot stand idly by as Ireland’s seafood industry dies while the sector flourishes in other EU and non-EU states. The time to act is now.” At just €1.3bn, the value of the entire Irish seafood sector is lower than the consolidated turnover of just one large...
by Niall Duffy | Apr 5, 2023 | News, UK
The Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group (SPSG) – a seafood industry organisation dedicated to ensuring stock sustainability for mackerel and herring – has criticised the Marine Conservation Society’s (MCS) latest update to its ‘Good Fish Guide’, which has downgraded...
by Niall Duffy | Oct 28, 2022 | Ireland, News
Independent TD for Donegal, Thomas Pringle, has highlighted the European Union’s failure to impose consequences on countries that set unilateral quotas for mackerel, despite several years of breaching agreements. At a meeting of the Committee on Agriculture, Food and...
by Niall Duffy | Sep 26, 2022 | News, UK
By Ian Gatt, chairman of the Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group In the north-east Atlantic, mackerel management is in a state of hiatus with the Faroes, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and Russia having all unilaterally increased their mackerel quotas outside any...
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