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 Read more…
2 November 2020 Ireland has played a “leading role” in the EU-wide failure to end overfishing, a new report concludes. Authored by Policy Officer Fintan Kelly, BirdWatch Ireland published their assessment of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) 2020, and noted in their title that it was a “discarded opportunity”. The Read more…
11 February 2019 Ireland has the third highest rate of overfishing in Europe with quotas coming in at more than 20 per cent above scientific advice, a new EU-wide report has found. The annual Landing the Blame report from the London-based NGO New Economics Foundation (NEF) analyses fishing quotas – Read more…
Next Monday’s EU level fisheries negotiations will be a litmus test of the Irish Government’s commitment to ending overfishing, writes Fintan Kelly If you have an interest in the ongoing saga around overfishing in Europe, then this is the time of year when the hammer strikes the anvil. Throughout November Read more…
June 14th, 2018 Fintan Kelly, Policy Officer with BirdWatch Ireland with a focus on marine issues, gives The Green News his opinion on why more needs to be done to end the practices of discarding fish and overfishing in EU waters. Within commercial fisheries, discarding is the practice of throwing Read more…
April 13th, 2018 Over 175,000 EU citizens have demanded an end to overfishing and protection of European waters as EU environment ministers gathered in Bulgaria this week. Environmental NGOs, Our Fish, Seas at Risk and WeMove.EU delivered the petition with over 175,000 signatures to Sweden’s Secretary for Environment Per Ängquist. Read more…
March 14th, 2018 Projected increases in greenhouse gas emissions could suppress marine biological productivity for a thousand years or more, a new study has found. The study in Science found that as the climate warms, westerly winds in the Southern Hemisphere will strengthen and shift poleward, surface waters will warm, Read more…
December 13th, 2017 The European Council has set 2018 quotas for the main commercial fish stocks in the Atlantic and the North Sea following protracted negotiations into the early hours of this morning. After a record-breaking forty-seven hours of debate, the Council announced that 53 fish stocks will be set Read more…
November 20th, 2017 Environmental groups have called for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to ban the “destructive” practice of pair-trawling in Irish coastal waters. The Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) last week warned that it has received reports that “destructive pair trawling is underway in shallow bays and Read more…
October 10th, 2017 The EU Commission has announced €550m in funding for initiatives to tackle global oceans challenges at the EU-hosted Our Ocean Conference 2017 in Malta last week. Thirty-six commitments were made, which the Commission said will intensify EU efforts towards reducing marine pollution, enlarging protected areas, reinforcing the Read more…
