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Scheming schemes
More corruption behind the smoke and mirrors With the final report from the Seafood Task Force now released it would appear that once...
ifsacormac
Oct 21, 20213 min read
An industry abandoned by Government
The Irish Government recently announced its annual budget and, amidst the usual areas to get ‘hit’ and the odd social welfare item to get...
ifsacormac
Oct 19, 20214 min read
Self praise instead of shame
On this day, Monday 11th October 2021, the Irish fisheries minister issued a public statement welcoming the final report from a Task...
ifsacormac
Oct 11, 20214 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Oct 5, 20210 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Sep 27, 20210 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Sep 23, 20210 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Sep 21, 20210 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Sep 17, 20210 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Sep 10, 20216 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Sep 8, 202110 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Sep 6, 20215 min read
Finbar Markey interviews Cormac Burke, IFSA Chairman on the current crisis in the fishing industry
https://www.facebook.com/115922484120461/videos/282046423689508
ifsacormac
Aug 9, 20211 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Jul 16, 20215 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Jul 13, 20214 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Jul 9, 20213 min read
Twisting facts and figures
- more falsehoods from the Irish fishing industry’s Department of Fiction & Misrepresentation (DAFM) There’s nothing like some facts...
ifsacormac
Jul 7, 20216 min read
Clear as mud !
Following last Tuesday’s meeting between the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) and the Oireachtas Joint Committee for Agriculture...
ifsacormac
Jul 1, 20216 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Jun 29, 20215 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Jun 28, 20213 min read
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...
ifsacormac
Jun 28, 20214 min read
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