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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
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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
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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...
ifsacormac
Jun 30, 20236 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Herring debate for inshore fishermen
Herring allocation proposals for Area 6A South “not enough” say Donegal inshore fishermen Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine...
ifsacormac
Mar 8, 20234 min read
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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
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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
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NORWAY - EU BLUE WHITING TALKS COLLAPSE
Round 5 of the talks over Norway’s request to catch the bulk of its vast 380,000-tonne quota of blue whiting in Irish waters has this...
ifsacormac
Feb 10, 20231 min read
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SHAMELESS !
There is genuine anger in the Irish fishing industry this Monday morning(January 9th) following the Irish Examiner’s weekend Q&A...
ifsacormac
Jan 9, 20236 min read
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