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Midnight murder

EU to proceed with further fishing industry controls At a minute to midnight last night (30 May 2023), five years following the initial...

The human cost of ‘green’ energy

Editorial comment by Cormac Burke, IFSA Traveling recently on the Belfast to Liverpool ferry my attention was drawn by a massive wind...

SFPA onboard camera control - where will it all end?

As the SFPA quietly set about trying to ‘encourage’ vessel owners in to ‘voluntarily’ agree to have cameras installed on Irish demersal...

A pig with lipstick is still a pig !

Editorial comment - Cormac Burke, IFSA “The Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) Business of Seafood report launched by Minister for Agriculture,...

The smell of something rotten in the Irish fishing industry!

[Although I am under doctor’s orders to stay off work for the next six to twelve weeks due to my serious accident last week I felt I had...

State-sponsored harassment of Irish fishermen

- - no such thing as ‘coincidence’ in this industry Although on the face of it these feel like quiet times in the Irish fishing industry,...

A voice in Europe

The Irish fishing industry needs all the support it can get . - Cormac Burke reports from Leinster House. . Perhaps Ash Wednesday, the...

How the other half live

As ever it seems to have been, Ireland’s fishing industry remains in a perpetual state of depression, uncertainty and confusion. The...

A decision that will sink or save this industry

“For the past two decades, at the various annual EU Council quota talks, Ireland’s negotiators viewed any quota reduction of 15% or less...