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Cawley Report :A Vision for the Irish Fishing Industry

  Natural Living Assets There is a viable market place for seafood within Europe and beyond. Ireland has been a key contributor to this market place for many years. Seafood sourced in Ireland today is mostly exported. Sea food is … Continue reading

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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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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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Saving our Irish Salmon Nov 2005

A plea for Ireland’s salmon.  I write as an enthusiastic angler of Wild Atlantic Salmon pursued in the rivers of Ireland mostly around the North and  North west.  Have you ever fished with rod and line and enjoyed the experience … Continue reading

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Collaborating for the common good; Saving Ireland’s Salmon: Channels and Challenges.(November 2006)

SAVING IRELAND’ SALMON COLLABORATING, FOR THE COMMON GOOD. There has been much discussion about rapidly disappearing salmon stocks in Ireland, her seas, and in the Atlantic Ocean. Traditional nets men and anglers have had to answer difficult questions about their … 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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Can Ireland’s Nets Men and Anglers work together to achieve greater abundance for Atlantic salmon in Ireland ?

Can Ireland’s Nets Men and Anglers work together to achieve greater abundance for Atlantic salmon in Ireland ? I was interested to read the points made by Mr Patrick Keys of Moville in his open letter to Minister Dempsey in … Continue reading

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Holiday Fisherman Gets Ill

  Holiday Fisherman Gets Ill A Great Holiday Pretending To Be A Fisherman Editor, Marine Times Newspaper. Dear Sir, Whilst many like to get away with their families on a summer holiday to some exotic location, my holiday is spent … 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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