KFO

  • New Issue: Fishing News 25.02.21

    New Issue: Fishing News 25.02.21

    23rd February 2021

    – 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…

  • Chokes dominate council

    Chokes dominate council

    1st January 2019

    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…

  • New Issue: Fishing News 29.11.18

    New Issue: Fishing News 29.11.18

    27th November 2018

    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…

  • Minister Creed makes decision on fleet capacity review

    Minister Creed makes decision on fleet capacity review

    31st August 2017

    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…

  • Mackerel quota review ‘endeavours to penalise the RSW sector’

    Mackerel quota review ‘endeavours to penalise the RSW sector’

    6th July 2017

    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.…

  • Brexit ‘disastrous’ for Ireland warns KFO chief

    Brexit ‘disastrous’ for Ireland warns KFO chief

    1st May 2017

    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’…

  • Increased 2017 mackerel TAC announced

    Increased 2017 mackerel TAC announced

    1st November 2016

    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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