Aug 4, 2024 | Latest News, News Articles
This is a particularly important committee on which to have representation, because it will be dealing with the review and planned reform of the Common Fisheries Policy. How did this happen? At a particularly difficult time for the national fishing industry, with very...
Jul 19, 2024 | News Releases
Irish fishing leaders say EU democracy must be questioned if a fishing nation like Ireland can be denied voting rights on the new EU Fisheries (PECH) Committee. Ireland has 12% of EU fishing waters and no full voting member on PECH, while the Netherlands has 4 full...
Jul 10, 2024 | Latest News, News Articles
AODH O DONNELL, CEO of the Irish Fish Producers’ Organisation offers an Irish perspective on the recent UK-Norway-Faroe mackerel deal The UK’s Trilateral deal with Norway and the Faroe Islands is raising concerns in Ireland about overfishing of mackerel in the North...
Jul 6, 2024 | Latest News, News Articles
There is a potential for conflict between fishermen and the ‘blue economy’ strategists, according to one of the leading figures in the fishing industry. The fishing industry says that it supports the need for climate change, but it is being claimed that it...
Jul 4, 2024 | Latest News, News Articles
Irish fishing representatives and E.U. advisory councils are seeking to tie Norway’s access to the E.U. market – which buys around 70 percent of Norway’s farmed salmon annually – to negotiations over fishery quotas, arguing that the Norwegian seafood industry should...
