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'10
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Will BIM’s
Strategy Provide a ‘New Era’ for the Seafood Industry?
Creation Of 600 Jobs Promised
Future State Investment Unclear
Tom MacSweeney reports: During its
60-year history,
Bord Iascaigh Mhara has changed from a semi-State
organisation dealing with the wholesaling of fish, through boat building
and training of fishermen into a service-driven agency. Faced with a challenge
to its very existence, it has produced a three-year strategy for the seafood
industry described by its Chief Executive as “less about driving
large increases in output, more about leveraging existing resources to
generate real added value.”
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SFPA’s
“Guide to Compliance for the Irish Inshore Fleet”
Minister Séan Connick has launched the Sea-Fisheries Protection
Authority’s (SFPA’s) “Guide to Compliance for the
Irish Inshore Fleet”, at an event organised on board the LE
Eithne at Galway Docks. The “Guide to Compliance for the Irish
Inshore Fleet” is a concise guide that summarises the principal
requirements that apply to Irish fishing vessels under 15 meters
operating in Irish inshore waters.
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Almost
lost in the swell during the Maharees currach regatta were local
crew Vincent Wyles, Jackie Goodwin, Danny Scanlon and Kieran Browne.
Photo by Ted Creedon.
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Irish Seal
Sanctuary Calls for Closure of Irish Sea to Trawling Angrily Rejected
by Fishermen
The Irish Seal Sanctuary (ISS) recently issued a press statement
regarding a proposal it submitted for a trawling ban in the Irish
Sea to coincide with a meeting of the Irish Sea Working Group of
the North Western Waters RAC (NWWRAC) on July 8th.
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Rosmuc
teenagers who successfully completed
their introduction to Commercial Fishing.
Fourteen second level students from South
Connemara were presented with their
FETAC-accredited certificates following the
successful completion of their FETAC Level 3
Modules in Navigation and Net Mending.
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This
Island Nation:
Skippers
and BIM
There will be those who disagree with me, but I believe that skippers
and BIM are two vital ingredients of the fishing industry and I
am concerned for the future of both. Skippers are essential leaders.
Without them the boat and crew will most likely not find fish, not
take a commercially marketable catch and not be able to earn a living.
Removing BIM would take away the only State body which is on the
side of the fishing industry. Having talked to the Minister for
Agriculture and Fisheries and the Junior Minister for Fisheries
I am no clearer about the long-term future of BIM. Brendan Smith
and his Junior, Sean Connick, were pleasant and courteous, but carefully-phrased
political answers and real answers are, I have learnt in my long
years in journalism, two different things.
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A
Lifetime Fishing – Hugh Nelson Recalls
Following on from his History of the Fifty
Footers, Pat Nolan now turns his attention to the men who have spent
a lifetime fishing ........
The surname Nelson is synonymous with seafaring at the Co Down coastal
town of Donaghadee. Generation after generation of the well-known
maritime orientated family have gone down to the sea, not only in
search of livelihoods, but also as prominent volunteer members of
the local RNLI lifeboat. The name of Hugh Nelson was brought to my
attention by Killinchy man Malcolm Carter. I rang Hugh and arranged
an early December visit to the Co Down coast. I suggested a particular
Monday as being a suitable day, to which Hugh replied, “That
will be fine, I’ll be here, because Sylla does the washing on
Mondays which means we don’t go out driving.” Subsequently,
further cordial telephone conversations with this obviously genial
gentleman left me in no doubt that a visit to his Killaughey Road
residence would indeed be a pleasure. So it was!
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