BIM & SFPA red tape denying tie-up scheme benefits to small boat fishermen
By now most people in the fishing industry will be aware of the compensatory ‘tie-up’ scheme which is intended to give fishermen a form...
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ifsacormac
- Oct 5, 2021
- 0 min
Government fiddles while the fishing industry burns
An editorial comment by Cormac Burke, Chairman of the Irish Fishing and Seafood Alliance (IFSA) There are so many issues of discontent in...
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ifsacormac
- Sep 27, 2021
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Yet another fisheries court case lost by the Department of Marine - but who really pays the price?
This week’s Court of Appeal’s decision to over-rule the Minister and his Department’s fight against a previous High Court ruling that...
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ifsacormac
- Sep 23, 2021
- 0 min
OPEN LETTER
Dear owners of Irish fishing vessels and processors, You are the Irish fishing industry! You are the investors who have your necks on the...
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ifsacormac
- Sep 21, 2021
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The silent cries
An editorial comment - Cormac Burke, Chairman, IFSA What has happened in the Irish fishing industry since the protests that were held in...
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ifsacormac
- Sep 17, 2021
- 0 min
Send in the clowns ….. don’t bother, they’re already here
An editorial comment - Cormac Burke, Chairman, IFSA It’s been a quiet recent few weeks in the fishing industry as the various...
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ifsacormac
- Sep 10, 2021
- 6 min
CFP - the Crooked Fisheries Policy
Editorial comment – Cormac Burke, Chairman, IFSA Having recently spent much time going through the lengthy EU 2015 report on the review...
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ifsacormac
- Sep 8, 2021
- 10 min
OPEN LETTER - IUU MUSSEL SEED FISHING
The following (lengthy) letter was sent by email to the Minister almost two months ago and has still not been acknowledged and, as of...
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ifsacormac
- Sep 6, 2021
- 5 min
Ireland demands action against Norway mackerel - as EU fails to do anything
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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ifsacormac
- Aug 9, 2021
- 1 min
Finbar Markey interviews Cormac Burke, IFSA Chairman on the current crisis in the fishing industry
https://www.facebook.com/115922484120461/videos/282046423689508
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ifsacormac
- Aug 9, 2021
- 4 min
Industry slams SFPA operational ‘fees’
IFPEA and IFSA issue joint statement on the announcement that the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) will, from October 1st,...
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ifsacormac
- Jul 16, 2021
- 5 min
IRELAND — SACRIFICING COASTAL COMMUNITIES AT THE ALTAR OF THE FALSE GODS OF THE EU COMMISSION
“Ireland...That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be” -- Benjamin Disraeli...
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ifsacormac
- Jul 13, 2021
- 4 min
Editorial comment
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...
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ifsacormac
- Jul 9, 2021
- 3 min
AN OPEN LETTER ON BEHALF OF IRELAND’S FISHING INDUSTRY
Who is the beneficiary of Ireland’s generosity with its fishery resources? Looking broadly at the situation of the Irish fishing...
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ifsacormac
- Jul 7, 2021
- 6 min
Twisting facts and figures
- more falsehoods from the Irish fishing industry’s Department of Fiction & Misrepresentation (DAFM) There’s nothing like some facts...
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ifsacormac
- Jul 1, 2021
- 6 min
Clear as mud !
Following last Tuesday’s meeting between the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Oireachtas Joint Committee for Agriculture...
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ifsacormac
- Jun 29, 2021
- 5 min
Into the lion’s den
The three representatives of the SFPA who came before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture & Marine this morning did so in a...
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ifsacormac
- Jun 28, 2021
- 3 min
Minister tells EU he’s “very concerned”…
Doubtless the EU Fisheries Commission is quaking in its boots tonight after Minister McConalogue ‘voiced his concerns’ at an EU Fisheries...
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ifsacormac
- Jun 28, 2021
- 4 min
A calm after the storm?
And so, after the successful protest when Ireland’s national fishing industry brought their case to the quayside in Dublin and over two...
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ifsacormac
- Jun 24, 2021
- 5 min
IFSA address at fishing industry Dublin Protest June 23rd 2021
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...
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