An editorial comment - Cormac Burke, Chairman, IFSA It’s been a quiet recent few weeks in the fishing industry as the various...

Editorial comment – Cormac Burke, Chairman, IFSA Having recently spent much time going through the lengthy EU 2015 report on the review...

The following (lengthy) letter was sent by email to the Minister almost two months ago and has still not been acknowledged and, as of...

Last May Norway and the Faroe Islands announced it was taking a huge increase of the shared mackerel TAC, with Norway increasing its...

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IFPEA and IFSA issue joint statement on the announcement that the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) will, from October 1st,...

“Ireland...That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be” -- Benjamin Disraeli...

Its oh so quiet… Is anyone else wondering what is going on with our marine administrators in recent weeks? Funny how, in the wake of the...

Who is the beneficiary of Ireland’s generosity with its fishery resources? Looking broadly at the situation of the Irish fishing...

- more falsehoods from the Irish fishing industry’s Department of Fiction & Misrepresentation (DAFM) There’s nothing like some facts...

Following last Tuesday’s meeting between the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Oireachtas Joint Committee for Agriculture...

The three representatives of the SFPA who came before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture & Marine this morning did so in a...

Doubtless the EU Fisheries Commission is quaking in its boots tonight after Minister McConalogue ‘voiced his concerns’ at an EU Fisheries...

And so, after the successful protest when Ireland’s national fishing industry brought their case to the quayside in Dublin and over two...

Before I start I’d like to comment that less than six months ago I was told that we would never see unity in the Irish fishing industry...

Shoulder to shoulder in Dublin As a service business owner, based in Killybegs, I want to offer my support and my perspective on the...

Today marine minister Charlie McConalogue has welcomed an interim report from the Seafood Sector Task Force — but if you’re expecting any...

Whilst Ireland’s fishing industry continues to battle for survival, it’s a sad state of affairs that we have brand new vessels being...

The dictionary description of the word ‘shameless’ is “a person or group with conduct characterised by or showing a lack of shame i.e.,...

— Your Voice in Our Industry. Dear IFSA supporters, As most of you will be aware, this organisation was only formed four months ago and,...