EU Commission refuses fishermen sight of contentious report Fishermen are demanding sight of a control audit report which allegedly makes a range of damaging allegations against the sector but to which they have been denied access for more than three years. Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) CEO, Seán O’Donoghue said the Commission is playing the role […]
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Authority acted ‘ultra vires’, states judge ? The Chief Executive of the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation, Seán O’Donoghue has welcomed today’s High Court ruling which found against the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA) for its failure to approve a new state-of-the-art conveyor belt fish weighing system. The judicial review was taken jointly by the KFO and […]
Catch weighing fiasco is final straw for frustrated fishermen ? The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority is not fit for purpose and needs to be reset as a matter of urgency, according to the representative groups for Ireland’s fishing and fish processing industry. Speaking ahead of a Joint Oireachtas Committee hearing tomorrow (Tuesday, May 11th), industry […]
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Government must urgently redouble its effort The Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) has reacted angrily to suggestions from the European Commission that there would be no reallocation of fish stocks between EU countries to ease the burden faced by Ireland, post Brexit. Charlina Vitcheva, Director-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries defended the fact that Ireland is […]
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KFO demands compensation in mackerel quota transfer from other EU members The Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) has said the Brexit deal reached this evening has demonstrated the duplicitous nature of these protracted negotiations and expressed its dismay at how repeated guarantees given to Irish fishermen have, effectively been shredded. Having secured a host of written […]
KFO aghast at proposal to throw fisheries ‘under the bus’ ? The Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) has implored the Irish Government to honour the commitment made to the fishing sector in the mandate given to EU Chief Negotiator, Michel Barnier. Having invested more than four years in ensuring that fisheries remained at the very heart […]
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Unprecedented backdrop for annual EU fisheries council talks The Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) has expressed a note of caution ahead of the annual meeting of the Council of Fisheries Ministers which commences in Brussels tomorrow (Tuesday, December 15th). It believes that an industry already in a state of heightened anxiety regarding Brexit is now in […]
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UK cannot expect to retain EU membership fishing benefits, post-Brexit ? The complexity of moulding Britain’s future relationship with the EU is nowhere more evident than in fisheries where the UK cannot expect to retain the privileges of membership while blocking its erstwhile European colleagues from its waters and doubling its catch. That’s according to […]
?Fisheries sector facing twin threats of Brexit and penalty points ? As the Irish fishing industry teeters on the brink facing its biggest ever crisis in the form of Brexit, our Government has incredulously decided to heap further misery on fishermen by rejecting an annulment of highly controversial penalty points legislation. That’s according to the […]
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Taoiseach must urgently amend legislation ?Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation (KFO) CEO, Seán O’Donoghue has stated that the fishing industry is livid that Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, acting as Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, enacted highly controversial penalty points legislation yesterday (Friday) with zero consultation with fishermen and in spite of having stridently opposed it, while […]
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