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BIM’s
Seafood Circle Endorses the Best Places to Eat and Buy Seafood in
2012
15 Seafood Establishments Win
Awards in Excellence
Ireland’s wealth of top class seafood restaurants and retail
outlets received a ringing endorsement from Bord Iascaigh Mhara
(BIM), the Seafood Development Agency, as the BIM Seafood Circle
2012 Award winners and coveted membership places were announced.
219 Seafood Circle members for 2012 were listed in addition to Kish
Fish of Smithfield, Dublin winning the Seafood Specialist of the
Year Award, Scally’s SuperValu, Clonakilty winning Supermarket
Seafood Counter of the Year and QC’s in Cahirciveen achieving
Seafood Restaurant of the Year 2012.
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Anger Over
Proposed Harbour Bye-Laws
Kerry fishermen, communities and tourism interests have expressed
anger and serious concern over Kerry County Council’s draft
regulations governing 16 of the county’s piers and harbours.
The regulations were published in July of last year and submissions
were sought from interested groups. The new draft bye-laws deal
with the storage of fishing gear on piers, berthage and landing
fees, ferry operations, moorings, swimming or other activities,
launch and recovery of vessels, filming or photographing for commercial
purposes, parking and trading.
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Kish
Fish, a well established Dublin fishmonger based in Smithfield,
has received the BIM Seafood Circle ‘Seafood Specialist of
the Year, 2012’ Pictured celebrating their achievement are:
Rita Mulvanny, Fedelmia O’Meara; Jimmy Smith and Carlos Saralegue.
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“Felucca” heading to sea in gale force westerly winds.
Photo by John Cunningham.
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Realising
What the Fishing Industry Means to Those Onshore
I am a strong critic of heavy-handed regulatory controls imposed
by the European Union’s unelected bureaucrats, implemented
by the equally unelected bureaucracy of Irish civil servants. There
is not enough questioning of their level of experience, knowledge
and understanding of the fishing industry. What level of qualifications
relevant to the fishing industry are held by EU officials who draw
up control regulations? The same question applies to many Irish
officials.
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“Buddy M” at Killybegs.
Photo by John Cuningham.
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Why
Not Put the Civil Service Out to Tender?
On my desk as I write this month’s ANALYSIS are a wide variety
of letters, documents, Emails and notes from telephone conservations
most of which have a common thread – the difficulties which
those in the fishing industry and the marine sector in general are
encountering with government bureaucracy.
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BIM
Host Networking Seminar to Facilitate Seafood Companies to Drive
Growth
Lack of Scale and Issues Relating
to Route to Market Identified
As Key Obstacles for the Irish Seafood Processing Sector
Bord Iascaigh
Mhara (BIM), held an intensive networking seminar, on the 25th January,
2012, where key seafood companies in Ireland met to discuss how
to achieve scale in the Irish seafood sector. BIM believe that an
increase in scale through the pooling of individual companies’
resources will boost profitability, reduce time to market, and improve
customer service.
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‘Fishing
Aquaculture and Seafood Expo – from Sea to Plate’
Seafood processors
and equipment suppliers will have a unique opportunity to showcase
their products to the UK market at the newly extended ‘Fishing,
Aquaculture and Seafood Expo – from Sea to Plate’ that
is being staged in Glasgow, Scotland, in March 2012. This will be
the 25th anniversary of the UK fishing expo, which formerly focused
primarily on the catching sector, but has now been extended to include
processing, seafood and aquaculture in recognition of the increasing
integration and synergies between the various fish industry sectors.
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