24 June 2021 Next Monday 28th June, our Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue will decide, jointly with his European peers, how fishing activities must be monitored and controlled to ensure their compliance with fisheries sustainability rules. Twenty NGOs, including 10 from Ireland, have recently encouraged the Read more…
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…
11 September 2020 Over 300 scientists have urged the EU Commissioner for the Environment, Ocean and Fisheries to end overfishing in response to the ongoing biodiversity and climate crises. The campaign, launched by environmental NGO Our Fish, sent a statement to Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius this week and called on the Read more…
December 9th, 2019 The industrialisation of European fisheries after World War II drove overfishing across the North Atlantic. Overfishing has, in turn, driven the decline and collapse of many commercially important fish stocks, with predictable consequences for marine life and the impacted fishing communities. The more unviable that fishing has 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…
December 19th, 2018 The EU’s fisheries ministers agreed this morning to maintain current fishing quota limits for 2019 despite calls from NGOs and experts to reduce the quotas in line with scientific advice and end overfishing by the end of the decade. While Ireland’s Minister for the Marine, Michael Creed 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…
July 14th, 2018 Leading conservation groups have called on the Government to urgently limit trawling within Irish coastal waters due to the negative environmental and economic impacts caused. Responding to a public consultation on trawling activity inside the six nautical mile zone, the groups noted various environmental and economic risks 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…
