301 Illegal Fishing Nets Confiscated
Inland Fisheries Ireland announced that it seized 647 items of illegal fishing equipment and 301 illegal fishing nets measuring 14,055 metres (8.6 miles) in 2017. The agency’s Fisheries Protection statistics for 2017 also reveal that it carried out 26,726 environmental inspections and 35,630 inspections of recreational anglers last year, putting 187,426 person hours into protecting […]
Prendergast urges public to engage in plan to tap trillion-euro marine market
Prendergast urges public to engage in plan to tap trillion-euro marine market Ireland South MEP Phil Prendergast is urging the public to engage in a new consultation process on how to tap the trillion-euro marine market. “The seas around Ireland are quite simply an untapped national wealth. Official figures show other countries make far more […]
