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Minister classes national industry voice as “not relevant”
“It’s an insult to all the people in Ireland’s coastal regions to try to simply dismiss this organisation because it is clearly rattling...
ifsacormac
Apr 6, 20213 min read
Ireland - the village idiot of the EU community
The EU Commission’s Common Fisheries Policy operates under some strange and very questionable principles. If a thief entered your...
ifsacormac
Mar 31, 20216 min read
YES MINISTER...
While the following article is quite a lengthy read, it is comprised of selected questions and answers from the recent Dail Eireann...
ifsacormac
Mar 25, 20217 min read
Swings and roundabouts
Fisheries Council set provisional quotas for period up to 31st July As decided at the EU Council of Fisheries Ministers last December,...
ifsacormac
Mar 24, 20212 min read
Apathy - the sound of silence
Has anyone noticed that, in the past month, the normal barrage of fishing industry press releases, DAFM notices, SFPA news of recent...
ifsacormac
Mar 23, 20215 min read
Daylight robbery!
Not content with getting our fish, now France wants Ireland’s BREXIT deal quota loss compensation money! Ireland’s share of overall €5bn...
ifsacormac
Mar 18, 20214 min read
Wind farms - taking the power from fishermen
On top of the Irish fishing industry’s pelagic and demersal trawlers losing thousands of tonnes of quota in Irish waters as the result of...
ifsacormac
Mar 16, 20216 min read
The Cosy Cartel
An entire generation of fishermen, seafood workers, their families, and the populations of Ireland’s coastal communities are demanding a...
ifsacormac
Mar 12, 20214 min read
The real reason why Boris wanted the fish
With the final ratification of the EU/U.K. BREXIT deal edging ever closer (30th April) the once presumed ‘done deal’ is looking ever more...
ifsacormac
Mar 10, 20214 min read
THE ENEMY WITHIN
As has been well publicised in the days since Christmas, everyone in the Irish fishing and seafood industries can see that Ireland, as a...
ifsacormac
Mar 8, 20214 min read
THE ROAD TO REDEMPTION - A ROAD LESS TRAVELLED?
It would appear that the final chink of the light of hope for the Irish fishing and seafood industry fighting against the EU is fading...
ifsacormac
Mar 5, 20214 min read
EU COMMISSION WARNED AGAINST MIS-INFORMATION
COMMISSION GUILTY OF PORTRAYING INDUSTRY AS DEVIANTS https://fiskerforum.com/commissioner-must-address-spread-of-damaging-information/?fb...
ifsacormac
Mar 5, 20211 min read
Fishermen challenge SFPA in High Court over their refusal to accept modern ‘flowscales’ system
“It is claimed the SFPA acted outside of its powers, the relevant regulations and Irish and European law in determining last year that...
ifsacormac
Mar 3, 20211 min read
FACING THE FACTS
A wise man once said that the worst kind of people are those who know the price of everything but the value of nothing Such would seem to...
ifsacormac
Mar 3, 20214 min read
EU must be joking!
Irish fishing industry expected to pay for SFPA monitoring & inspections Not content with years of wasting Irish taxpayers’ money taking...
ifsacormac
Feb 23, 20213 min read
IFSA article raises questions in the Dail
Minister asked to intervene in SFPA non-cooperation with Irish pelagic industry “I am appealing to the Minister to intervene to ensure...
ifsacormac
Feb 18, 20213 min read
The two faces of the EU’s BREXIT ‘deal’ for Ireland
“The EU Commission’s own double standards on ‘relative stability’ and ‘zonal attachment’ has made a farce of all ‘fair’ fisheries...
ifsacormac
Feb 18, 20214 min read
The Crying Game
A ‘dirty tricks’ campaign against Ireland’s call for justice is the latest EU Commission stunt - in a bid to shut up the Irish fishing...
ifsacormac
Feb 17, 20216 min read
So much for justice
So much for justice . A cornerstone of the management of EU fisheries has been the implementation of a system known as ‘relative...
ifsacormac
Feb 15, 20212 min read
Come into my parlour said the spider to the fly…
The EU (formerly E.E.C.), and all that it entails has, many would believe, been an economic boost to the nation of Ireland since we...
ifsacormac
Feb 15, 20216 min read
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