Mar 5, 2024 | News Articles
The Irish Fish Processors and Exporters Association says the pelagic sector has recorded a historically low level of fish landings so far in 2024, with mackerel landings effectively concluded. The group’s CEP Brendan Byrne says this is set to be the worst year ever in...
Mar 5, 2024 | News Articles
Factories ending processing weeks earlier than normal as trends worsen. The Irish pelagic fish processing sector has recorded historical low levels of fish landings in Q1 of 2024, and with the mackerel landings effectively concluded; indications are that 2024 is set...
Mar 1, 2024 | News Articles
Ireland has a lot of maritime territory, 880,000 square kilometres stretching out 200 nautical miles from the shoreline, ten times the size of the island we live on. Sounds a lot, but there’s intense spatial marine pressure growing on areas close to shore where wind...
Feb 8, 2024 | Fishing Quotas, Latest News, News Articles
Read on The Irish Sun Here >> IRISH fishermen are up in arms over secret EU talks to give Iceland access to our fishing waters. Our trawlermen are being allocated an extra 15 million Blue Whiting quota this year on condition that Icelandic crews can fish here....
Dec 22, 2023 | Latest News, News Articles
A non-EU country may soon be allowed to fish in waters just miles away from UK shores thanks to the European Union, sparking fury among fishermen closer to home. Fishing officials in Ireland are worried that they have not been consulted on the negotiations, which...
