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On a cliff edge
In less than 24 hours’ time the 2025 EU Council of Ministers will begin its annual ‘horse trading’ of quotas which will determine the TACs (Total Allowable Catches) of various species across the EU Member States for the coming year. Notoriously, Ireland has never fared well in the outcome of these negotiations in the past, partly due to infamously weak Irish DAFM negotiators but also due to slick operators in other more powerful fishing EU Member States … and Irish fishermen
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The three card trick
Editorial Comment - Cormac Burke, IFSA As recently reported in The Fishing Daily (November 26th) Minister of State for Fisheries Timmy Dooley raised more than a few eyebrows when, at the latest meeting with the Oireachtas Joint Committee for Fisheries, he announced a further allocation of €5.7 million which will “underpin Ireland’s commitment to significantly expand its Marine Protected Area (MPA) network from its current level of 8% coverage of Ireland’s maritime area to 30%
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Media propaganda attempt to hide SFPA failings
Irish Examiner article castigates Irish fishing industry for demanding the same level of regulation and control from the SFPA as other EU Member States receive from their regulators The following article, which was published in the Irish Examiner in recent days, goes to great lengths to undermine the justified calls by all Irish fishing industry representative bodies for a review of the actions of the Sea Fisheries Protection ‘Authority’, its heavy handed approach, and the fa
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Dredging for the truth
Editorial Comment Cormac Burke, IFSA Those of you in the fishing industry who follow the never ending well-funded attacks on this...
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OPEN LETTER - - IFSA
***************************************** This farce must stop! An Open Letter to Minister Timmy Dooley and to the members of the...
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IFSA attends Oireachtas Fisheries Committee meeting
The following link is to the IFSA Opening Statement submission to this Committee, but the meeting in full can be viewed a link on the...
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All quiet on the western front
Traditionally this is always a quiet time of year in the Irish fishing industry and this year is no different… … and yet if you scratch...
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Thrown out!
Another SFPA cock-up as Judge throws out pelagic case - - probably the first of many acquittals of trumped up charges to come Isn’t it a...
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Parasites
How the Irish fishing and processing industry has spawned a lucrative business for SFPA monitoring & control. But how far can things go...
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IFSA Press Release
OPEN LETTER - - IFSA
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IFSA attends Oireachtas Fisheries Committee meeting
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Thrown out!
Another SFPA cock-up as Judge throws out pelagic case - - probably the first of many acquittals of trumped up charges to come Isn’t it a...
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Opinion
On a cliff edge
In less than 24 hours’ time the 2025 EU Council of Ministers will begin its annual ‘horse trading’ of quotas which will determine the TACs (Total Allowable Catches) of various species across the EU Member States for the coming year. Notoriously, Ireland has never fared well in the outcome of these negotiations in the past, partly due to infamously weak Irish DAFM negotiators but also due to slick operators in other more powerful fishing EU Member States … and Irish fishermen
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The three card trick
Editorial Comment - Cormac Burke, IFSA As recently reported in The Fishing Daily (November 26th) Minister of State for Fisheries Timmy Dooley raised more than a few eyebrows when, at the latest meeting with the Oireachtas Joint Committee for Fisheries, he announced a further allocation of €5.7 million which will “underpin Ireland’s commitment to significantly expand its Marine Protected Area (MPA) network from its current level of 8% coverage of Ireland’s maritime area to 30%
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Media propaganda attempt to hide SFPA failings
Irish Examiner article castigates Irish fishing industry for demanding the same level of regulation and control from the SFPA as other EU Member States receive from their regulators The following article, which was published in the Irish Examiner in recent days, goes to great lengths to undermine the justified calls by all Irish fishing industry representative bodies for a review of the actions of the Sea Fisheries Protection ‘Authority’, its heavy handed approach, and the fa
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