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Fishing Daily: Tell Norway No Way – Hands Off Irish Blue Whiting says Irish fishing
Fishing Bodies Say EU Must Deny Norway Access To Our Blue Whiting Norway is seeking greater access to fish their annual quotas in Irish waters, while offering no reciprocal arrangement for Ireland to their own seas. Fishing representatives in Ireland are demanding...
THE SKIPPER: Norway Seeks €100 Million Blue Whiting Bonanza In Irish Waters
Fishing Bodies Say EU Must Deny Norway Access To Our Blue Whiting Norway is seeking greater access to fish their annual quotas in Irish waters, while offering no reciprocal arrangement for Ireland to their own seas. Fishing representatives in Ireland are demanding...
AFLOAT: “Outrageous” Attempt by Norway to Get More Access to Irish Fishing Waters
The Irish fishing industry is being threatened with another major impact on its waters This is from Norway a non-EU Membet State which wants to get its fleet into Irish waters to fish for the valuable blue whiting. Norway has made a direct request to the EU for...
MARINE TIMES: Tell Norway No Way – Hands Off Irish Blue Whiting
Norway is seeking greater access to fish their annual quotas in Irish waters, while offering no reciprocal arrangement for Ireland to their own seas. Fishing representatives in Ireland are demanding that the EU refuse Norway access to the Irish Box for the lucrative...
Tell Norway No Way – Hands Off Irish Blue Whiting
Fishing Bodies Say EU Must Deny Norway Access To Our Blue Whiting Norway is seeking greater access to fish their annual quotas in Irish waters, while offering no reciprocal arrangement for Ireland to their own seas. Fishing representatives in Ireland are demanding...
‘No Consultation’ on Irish Offshore Wind
The Irish fishing industry is ‘not being consulted’ about offshore wind developments in Irish waters, reports Lorna Siggins. Irish Fish Producers’ Organisation (IFPO) chief executive Aodh Ó Donnell, who was one of six industry representatives to take part in a recent fact-finding mission to a floating offshore wind farm in Scotland, has also said that no planning should proceed until Ireland’s new Maritime Area Regulatory Authority (MARA) has been established.
SEAFOOD SOURCE: Ireland plans to cut work-permit scheme for migrant fishing laborers
Ireland looks set to scrap a work-permit scheme introduced in 2015 for non-European fishery workers after a review ordered by government recommended a transition to regular employment permits given to other immigrants. On 11 October, after a delay of seven months, the...
Some Irish Fleet landing in France for cheaper fuel
Fishing and seafood organisations say they’re ‘hopeful’ that the Minister for the Marine is about to announce a national fuel aid scheme for the Irish fleet. Representatives of the industry met with Minister Charlie McConalogue this week to discuss escalating fuel costs. EU funding is already in place to support such fuel aid, but to date, Ireland had failed to implement one.
Legislate Now to Protect Migrant Fishers
Statement from IFPO chief executive, Aodh O Donnell, on Migrant Fishers' Rights: “The IFPO unequivocally supports the right of all non-EEA migrant fishers to fair treatment in the workplace. Traditionally, many crew members on Irish fishing vessels are ‘share-fishers’...
Changes to Permit System for Non-EEA Fishing Crew Given Qualified Welcome
Changes to the permit system for non-EEA fishing crew proposed by a Government review have been given a qualified welcome by the Irish branch of the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF). ITF campaign lead for Ireland Michael O’Brien said a “major...
Offshore Wind Farms Can Damage Fishing Grounds
Minister Must Consult Fishing Industry The Irish fishing industry say they have a right to be consulted about offshore wind farms because it affects their livelihoods. Spokesperson Aodh O Donnell says every industry needs to co-operate to reduce fossil fuels but...
Fishing industry must be consulted on offshore wind – IFPO
The Irish fishing industry says it has a right to be consulted about offshore wind farms because it affects the livelihoods of everyone. That’s according to Aodh O Donnell, the Killybegs based Chief Executive of the Irish Fish Producers Association, who says says...
RTE Radio 1 Seascapes
RTE Radio 1 Seascapes, Friday 14 October 2022. Fergal Keane reports on an Irish fishing representatives visit to an Aberdeen offshore floating windfarm. He talks to IFPO chief executive, Aodh O Donnell. Listen here.
Minister Must Consult Fishing Industry On Offshore Wind Farms Warns IFPO
The Irish fishing industry say they have a right to be consulted about offshore wind farms because it affects their livelihoods. IFPO Spokesperson Aodh O Donnell says every industry needs to co-operate to reduce fossil fuels but “co-operation works both ways and we...
Marine Minister Fails to Deliver on Fuel Aid
Fishing industry representatives say they are confounded and disappointed by the Government’s repeated refusal to draw down EU fuel aid. They met with the Minister for the Marine on Friday and urged him to secure the existing EU aid to help with the crippling costs of...
Marine Minister Refuses to Draw Down EU Fuel Aid Despite Zero Cost to Irish Exchequer
Fishing industry representatives say they are confounded and disappointed by the Government’s repeated refusal to draw down EU fuel aid. They met with the Minister for the Marine on Friday 23rd September and urged him to secure the existing EU aid to help with the...
Fishing Bodies present their case to Tánaiste
A meeting held this week between the Tanaiste and local fishing bodies has been described as positive. Leo Varadkar indicated that the government committed to working on sustaining the industry to coastal communities. The event has been described as a first step in a...
Fishing Bodies Meet Tánaiste
Fishing bodies have described as positive a meeting they held with Tánaiste Leo Varadkar earlier this week, at his office in Government buildings. The meeting was arranged by the Manus Boyle and Declan Lovett of the Dunkineely and Killybegs Branch of Fine Gael ‘’This...
Fishing’s future: ‘If farmers were told they had to sell off their farms to one or two investment companies, there would be an outcry’
Few contemporary Irish writers can give voice to a sense of place on the Atlantic seaboard in the way Mary O’Malley can, and no more so than in a recent poem inspired by a long walk during the early days of Covid-19. It describes how she stopped on a bridge as Galway...
Decommissioning Ireland’s Whitefish Fleet won’t work – IFPO warns
Plans to cut the Irish whitefish fleet by over 30% will not preserve fish stocks in Irish waters, the Irish Fish Producers Organisation has warned. The Killybegs-based group says the Marine Minister’s €60m decommissioning scheme will leave the stocks available to...