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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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Jun 30, 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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Jun 21, 20236 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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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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Mar 13, 20235 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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Jan 11, 20233 min read
SHAMELESS !
There is genuine anger in the Irish fishing industry this Monday morning(January 9th) following the Irish Examiner’s weekend Q&A...
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Jan 9, 20236 min read
Ireland to be the sacrificial lamb yet again
. DAFM officials not fighting a meek surrender of Irish blue whiting to Norway . Most people in the Irish fishing industry will by now be...
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Jan 4, 20234 min read
Deliver us from evil
Editorial Comment In this proud maritime nation on the periphery of Western Europe, Ireland holds possession of some of the richest...
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Dec 9, 20225 min read
Changing of the guard
If it feels like an eerie silence has fallen upon the fishing industry in recent weeks it may be due to an uncomfortable sensation of not...
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Nov 30, 20222 min read
SFPA - a tangled web of deceit
A statement last week by IFPEA chief Brendan Byrne that Ireland has a total of 241 fishery officers has been dismissed by the Sea...
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Nov 7, 20222 min read
Environmentalists attempt to prey on a gullible public
IWT anti fishing industry propaganda article “more holes than a trawler’s net” - Cormac Burke, IFSA A recent article (Oct 16th) by the...
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Oct 17, 20224 min read
A political PR exercise while Ireland’s fishing industry is being pushed over the cliff
Editorial comment by Cormac Burke, Chairman of the Irish Fishing & Seafood Alliance (IFSA) “I am determined to continue this tradition...
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Oct 3, 20225 min read
More ‘smoke & mirrors’ political stunts from marine minister
Yesterday’s press release from Minister for Agriculture, Food & Marine Charlie McConalogue certainly looks impressive at first glance…....
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Sep 28, 20221 min read
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