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Ireland’s frustrated fishing industry

https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41198821.html

ifsacormac

Aug 8, 20231 min read

Ireland’s soft touch for all fishing vessels - except those from Ireland!

The Penalty in 2015 fishing trial in Cork was too severe, Court of Appeal decides, despite Irish Naval Commander reporting evidence of...

ifsacormac

Jul 31, 20232 min read

Help needed

When it’s gone, it’s gone With the Irish Fishing & Seafood Alliance (IFSA) closed for annual leave for the next two weeks (back to work...

ifsacormac

Jul 14, 20232 min read

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN I have on this day, 13th July 2023, submitted, both by email and by registered post, the following formal request...

ifsacormac

Jul 13, 20231 min read

SFPA - laziness or a hidden agenda?

Editorial comment by Cormac Burke, Chairman IFSA As always, keeping regular observation on various fishing industry ‘Authority’ bodies,...

ifsacormac

Jul 11, 20232 min read

A TIME TO STAND UP

Editorial comment by Cormac Burke, IFSA Chairman As I sat in front of the television last night and watched the ‘Trawlerman’ programme...

ifsacormac

Jun 30, 20236 min read

Different industry but same political tactics

Worth noting the attempted stunt pulled by Minister for Agriculture, Food & Marine Charlie McConalogue when he tried this week to blame...

ifsacormac

Jun 29, 20232 min read

The whitewashing of an industry

Editorial Comment - Cormac Burke, Chairman, IFSA Currently much in the international news is the continuing accusation of ‘image washing’...

ifsacormac

Jun 21, 20236 min read

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...

ifsacormac

May 31, 20232 min read

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...

ifsacormac

May 24, 20234 min read

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...

ifsacormac

Apr 25, 20234 min read

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,...

ifsacormac

Apr 18, 20232 min read

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...

ifsacormac

Mar 21, 20233 min read

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,...

ifsacormac

Mar 13, 20235 min read

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...

ifsacormac

Feb 23, 20233 min read

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...

ifsacormac

Feb 15, 20233 min read

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...

ifsacormac

Feb 3, 20234 min read

SUPPORT THE IFSA

Dear IFSA friends, On behalf of the Irish Fishing & Seafood Alliance I would like to thank the many subscribers who continue to make the...

ifsacormac

Jan 30, 20232 min read

Ireland’s ‘rip-off’ decommissioning scheme

I made the journey today (18th January) from Donegal to Limerick for the gathering of 57 fishermen / vessel owners who find themselves...

ifsacormac

Jan 20, 20235 min read

AN OPEN LETTER

MINISTER, WE IDENTIFY AS 'FISHERMEN' AND NOT 'FISHERS' Dear Cormac, Having read the piece on Minister Charlie McConalogue’s Q&A in the...

ifsacormac

Jan 11, 20233 min read

Ireland’s frustrated fishing industry

Ireland’s soft touch for all fishing vessels - except those from Ireland!

Help needed

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

SFPA - laziness or a hidden agenda?

A TIME TO STAND UP

Different industry but same political tactics

The whitewashing of an industry

Midnight murder

The human cost of ‘green’ energy

SFPA onboard camera control - where will it all end?

A pig with lipstick is still a pig !

The smell of something rotten in the Irish fishing industry!

State-sponsored harassment of Irish fishermen

A voice in Europe

How the other half live

A decision that will sink or save this industry

SUPPORT THE IFSA

Ireland’s ‘rip-off’ decommissioning scheme

AN OPEN LETTER

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