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The ‘not so green’ Department of Marine

On-shore power supply price rise by 378% forces return to diesel generators At a time when all Irish industry commercial sectors are...

Changing of the guard

If it feels like an eerie silence has fallen upon the fishing industry in recent weeks it may be due to an uncomfortable sensation of not...

SFPA - a tangled web of deceit

A statement last week by IFPEA chief Brendan Byrne that Ireland has a total of 241 fishery officers has been dismissed by the Sea...

Time to face the music…

There must be accountability Today’s statement (Marine Times 21/10/22) that it would appear that Minister McConalogue is finally...

Environmentalists attempt to prey on a gullible public

IWT anti fishing industry propaganda article “more holes than a trawler’s net” - Cormac Burke, IFSA A recent article (Oct 16th) by the...

Minister (he who claims that he has nothing to do with the SFPA) announces executive appointments

Minister McConalogue has announced the appointment of Michael Finn and Jonathan Hoare as Executive Authority Members of the Sea Fisheries...

A political PR exercise while Ireland’s fishing industry is being pushed over the cliff

Editorial comment by Cormac Burke, Chairman of the Irish Fishing & Seafood Alliance (IFSA) “I am determined to continue this tradition...

More ‘smoke & mirrors’ political stunts from marine minister

Yesterday’s press release from Minister for Agriculture, Food & Marine Charlie McConalogue certainly looks impressive at first glance…....

New Fisheries Report

Some interesting facts and figures in this report that are bound to be the source of plenty of debate and opinion…. BIM publishes...