Fish farm plan blow to wild Atlantic salmon Saturday, June 29, 2013 We in FISSTA welcome Ray Ryan’s exclusive report (Irish Examiner, Jun 24) quoting Minister Rabbitte on a recent study that angling tourism is worth €500m and supports more than 10,000 jobs annually in ‘rural and peripheral communities, particularly in the west of Ireland’. … Continue reading
Recreational angling sector generates €500m annually Irish Examiner, 24 June 2013 By Ray Ryan THE recreational angling sector is generating direct revenues in excess of €500m a year. Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Pat Rabbitte revealed the figure in a written reply to a Dáil question. He said the vast majority of the revenue … Continue reading
Ireland’s fish farming plans cause environmental concern Financial Times, 23 June 2013 By Jamie Smyth in Inver Bay, County Donegal The sea is alive with flashes of silver as thousands of young salmon dart across the surface of Inver Bay on Ireland’s northwest coast. Almost a million Atlantic salmon are maturing at this organic farm, … Continue reading
Public meeting in Castletownbere THE South West Fishery Local Action Group will host an information and ideas meetings on Wednesday, June 26th next in Castletownbere at the BIM Fishery College from 8pm. All those connected with or interested in fisheries, the marine economy, and Marine tourism are encouraged to attend. The purpose of a new … Continue reading
antiFarmed Fish Production Overtakes Beef Lester Brown, Guest Writer Science / Sustainable Agriculture June 12, 2013 The world quietly reached a milestone in the evolution of the human diet in 2011. For the first time in modern history, world farmed fish production topped beef production. The gap widened in 2012, with output from fish farming—also … Continue reading
Land-based salmon farm to seek out investors across US June 12, 2013, 5:49 pm Jeanine Stewart A US land-based salmon producer which aims to grow coho salmon to three kilos in only a year is preparing a prospectus to take to investors next month. SweetSpring, which farms coho in closed containment tanks in Washington state, … Continue reading
Allen puts brakes on BIM Slow Food claim Galway Independent, 12 June 2013 Celebrity chef and Slow Food guru Darina Allen has written to Minister for the Marine Simon Coveney to clarify that the Slow Food movement does not support fish farming projects such as the proposed Galway Bay salmon farm. The Ballymaloe Cookery School … Continue reading
Norway Lobbied to Raise Toxin Level in Salmon Feed 11.06.2013 – Oslo After yesterday’s debate on the danger of eating farmed salmon due to high level harmful pollutants, it was revealed Norwegian authorities have lobbied in EU to allow more toxin level in salmon. According to Aftenposten’s report, Norway has for years tried to get … Continue reading
Allen hits out at marine board for salmon farm plan Monday, June 10, 2013 By Claire O’Sullivan Celebrity chef Darina Allen and the international Slow Food organisation have clashed with Bord Iascaigh Mhara over its proposed 500-hectare organic salmon farm off the Aran Islands. In a letter to Simon Coveney, the agriculture and marine minister, … Continue reading
SBB Request Support of North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation at 2013 AGM Yesterday, 4 June 2013, Alec O’Donovan of Save Bantry Bay, and other SBB supporters held a symbolic funeral for wild Atlantic Salmon at the 2013 AGM of the NASCO. A letter was delivered in a symbolic wild salmon’s coffin requesting the NASCO take … Continue reading
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