11 November 2020 The Minister for Agriculture has launched an appeal against the High Court’s decision to permit large trawlers within Ireland’s inshore waters. Last month the High Court ruled the ban that came into effect in January that prevented large trawlers from Ireland’s six mile zone was void and had no legal effect. Minister […]
19 August 2020 A consultation process for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) has been announced by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and will be open until 18 September. The announcement is in line with the terms outlined in the Programme for Government, which promised the opening of a consultation within its first 100 […]
18 August 2020 Human-induced change may have affected as much as half of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, a new study has revealed. A new article in Nature Climate Change predicted through climate modelling that 20 to 55 per cent of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian basins would have an “emergent anthropogenic signal” in […]
March 26th, 2020 The novel coronavirus could spread to our recreational waters due to the improper disposal of wet wipes, a marine conservation group has warned. Coastwatch issued the warning this week as many use wet wipes as a way to keep infection at bay as the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the disease Covid-19 continues […]
February 24th, 2020 Cork County Council is preparing to remove materials from a grounded ghost ship that could pose a pollution risk by helicopter on Tuesday. The council is preparing to airlift barrels of machine oil from the abandoned cargo ship stranded on rocks near Ballycotton in east Cork as part of its pollution mitigation […]
February 17th, 2020 Cork County Council has said that there are no signs of contamination to the protected Ballycotton Bay as a result of yesterday evening’s wreck of an abandoned cargo ship off East Cork. The vessel was abandoned since September 2018 and was drifting across the Atlantic until it was grounded in Ballycotton during […]
December 18th, 2019 EU fisheries Ministers have agreed to set various fisheries quota levels above scientifically suggested levels and will fail to meet their own legal deadline to end overfishing by 2020. The EU AGRIFISH Council meeting closed in Brussels this morning following all-night negotiations as is typical in recent years, with the need to […]
December 10th, 2019 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned that the overall quality of Ireland’s lakes, rivers and estuaries is deteriorating, reversing all gains achieved in recent years. The EPA’s latest Water Quality report describes the quality of water in half of our river resources as “unsatisfactory”, while the number of pristine river sites […]
December 9th, 2019 Protesters gathered in Dublin today to demand that the Government ends overfishing in Irish waters ahead of key fisheries quota negotiations in Brussels next week. Members of Extinction Rebellion Ireland and the Irish Wildlife Trust held a demonstration outside the gates of Dail this afternoon that recreated a fishing harbour with twelve-foot […]
September 30th, 2019 The High Court has granted an injunction on dredging for razor clams in the Waterford estuary pending a full hearing over the matter early next year. The decision was made following a challenge from the environmental group Coastwatch to a decision to open a razor clams fishery in the estuary without […]
