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ifsacormac
Sep 5, 20233 min read
EU & NE ATLANTIC COASTAL STATES - TIME FOR EU TO GET TOUGH WITH NORDIC NATIONS
“The Nordic states have, and continue to, abuse the responsible European approach and, in failing to agree a responsible sharing of the...
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ifsacormac
Aug 23, 20232 min read
“ONLY 6% OF IRISH TRAWLERS INSPECTED” - More SFPA propaganda
Following several recent IFSA articles about how the Sea Fisheries Protection ‘Authority’ constantly portray the Irish fishing industry...
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ifsacormac
Aug 22, 20233 min read
An industry with no one at the wheel
Glancing through the latest copy of Marine Times newspaper I noticed the recurring theme throughout - the number of industry voices...
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ifsacormac
Aug 17, 20233 min read
FOI REQUEST - - DEPT. JUSTICE REFUSES TO DENY THAT IFSA STATEMENT ON PHONE ‘TAPPING’ MAY BE CORRECT
On 13th July last the Irish Fishing & Seafood Alliance (IFSA) submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act to the Department...
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ifsacormac
Aug 10, 20232 min read
ALWAYS A GLASS HALF EMPTY
It is less than four weeks since there was an IFSA article about the general tone and language used by the SFPA (July 11th - ‘SFPA -...
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ifsacormac
Aug 8, 20231 min read
Ireland’s frustrated fishing industry
https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41198821.html
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ifsacormac
Jul 31, 20232 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...
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ifsacormac
Jul 14, 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...
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ifsacormac
Jul 11, 20232 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,...
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ifsacormac
Jun 30, 20236 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...
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ifsacormac
Jun 21, 20236 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’...
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ifsacormac
May 24, 20234 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...
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ifsacormac
Apr 25, 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...
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ifsacormac
Apr 18, 20232 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,...
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ifsacormac
Mar 21, 20233 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...
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ifsacormac
Mar 13, 20235 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,...
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ifsacormac
Feb 15, 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...
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ifsacormac
Feb 3, 20234 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...
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ifsacormac
Jan 30, 20232 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...
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ifsacormac
Jan 20, 20235 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...
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