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Salmon Paper. Hydro-Geomorphology and salmon nursery habitat

The challenges of calculating a sustainable Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) management conservation targets in balance with  juvenile habitat in small salmon rivers. Brendan Kerr 2020  Abstract A habitat analysis of five small rivers was conducted in two small river systems, … Continue reading

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Sustainability

Sustainability course   Cultural Exchange Belfast 2007   What do you think would improve the lives of people in Northern Ireland, in relation to the environment?     Things to think about Rich countries in that they dominate economies. Infrastructure … Continue reading

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Will Politicians achieve Sutaianability for Fishing

From unsustainable Fishing to Research and Sustainable Politics?  Politics In politics, leaders and parties come and go. Decisions are made, policies are implemented. The party that wins the support of the electorate wins the election and the right to take … Continue reading

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A context for Irish Fishing(Sptember 2006)

Two Reports for a Sustainable Future; Steering a New Course and Sea Change. Destructive decommissioning or sustainable mothballing Please find my interpretation of these two reports. Understanding the implications was certainly not bedtime reading and required full concentration, to understand … Continue reading

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Saving Our Irish salmon

Saving our Irish Salmon  In defence of the compulsory ban on drift net fishing as reported in the December edition of The Skipper Noel Dempsey Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural resources said “the current imperative must be to maintain … Continue reading

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Sustainable Subsistence Across the North Atlantic

Subsistence compensation to ensure a bright future for valuable Irish Salmon in Ireland, Greenland and Faeroes.  It has been reported that to offset hardship due to the compulsory buy out of drift net licenses, a 25 Million Euro fund will … Continue reading

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Two Reports for a Sustainable Future

Two Reports, the Marine Institute’s “Sea Change” and Cawley’s “Steering a New Course” as a Context for a sustainable future. The context for the Cawley report is that Fish Stocks are declining and increasingly the fishing industry is under threat … Continue reading

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When Will the salmon Come Back

When will the salmon come back?  Cormac Burke’s article “Lonely Shores” in The Irish Skipper, August, reflects the consequences of socio economic decline, witnessed by empty fishing harbours: Teelin, Kilcar, Bunbeg, Blacksod, Goleen to name a few. Small historic ports … Continue reading

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Drift Net Ban

In defence of the compulsory ban on drift net fishing Noel  Dempsey Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural resources said “the current imperative must be to maintain stocks above conservation limits”. It will be obvious to those who fish responsibly … Continue reading

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Interdependent Sustainability of Atlantic salmon

PLANNING FOR INTERDENPENENT SUTAINABILTIY OF ATLANTIC SALMON AND SOCIO ECONOMIC GAIN. NASCO The North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation  (NASCO) have asked their 18 sign up countries to present new updated five year plans in November 2007.  Ireland, like all the … Continue reading

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