– Fight to break free of CFP – ‘Act now to save industry’, Gove told – KFO: Burden-sharing ‘imperative’ for survival of Irish industry – Last of early-year mackerel landed at Peterhead – EU seeks ‘payback’ from Ireland over under-reporting…
Council moves to avoid chokes as discards ban kicks in Efforts to avoid choke species, particularly those with zero TACs, dominated difficult two-day December council negotiations that brought cuts in some important TACs but increases in others, reports Tim Oliver…
This week in Fishing News you will find: – Quota reallocation pledge – Soph-Ash-Jay 3 joins JAS-N at Burnmouth – ‘No link between fisheries and trade’, says government – KFO encouraged by UK-EU declaration – Bass not a discards species…
Following a public consultation process, which received 26 submissions, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Michael Creed announced his decision on the fleet capacity review, reports Pauric Gallagher. The policy review relates to separate proposals from the Irish South & West…
The Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO), along with representatives from the other Irish Fish Producers Organisations and the National Inshore Fisheries Forum, were invited to attend a meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, reports Pauric Gallagher.…
EUFA calls for status quo on quota shares. An Irish fishermen’s leader is warning that UK gains after Brexit will be at the expense of the Irish industry unless urgent action is taken. He also stresses it is ‘crucially important’…
Pelagic fishermen in Britain and Ireland will have increased catching opportunities for north-east Atlantic mackerel in 2017, following an agreement reached at the Coastal State negotiations between the EU, Norway and the Faroe Islands in Clonakilty, reports David Linkie. Under the agreement, which follows scientific…
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