Media Coverage
Noteworthy, Dec 2021: Irish Boats landing five times recommended limit of Sprat
This article from online investigative journalism platform Noteworthy(now The Journal Investigates) in late 2021 gives a good summary of the situation around the overfishing of Sprat in Irish waters, and why it needs to stop.
An appalling waste of marine life… we shouldn’t be catching fish to be churned up to be fed to cattle and farmed fish.
Padraig Fogarty, then with the Irish Wildlife Trust
Four years on, and Sprat are still being exploited in a completely unregulated and unsustainable manner off the Irish coast while the Irish Government drags its heels.
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West Cork’s whales in decline, but why?
We read with interest the interview with pelagic fisherman Ger Sheehy on the Southern Star in early June 2025 and wish to respond to some important issues raised in it.
The article suggests that observations of year-on-year declines in sprat by stakeholders such as local whale watch operations, anglers and inshore fishermen, whose livelihoods all…
Listen in: RTÈ’s Claire Byrne talks Sprat with Colin Barnes and Ken O’Sullivan
Sprat made the national airwaves in late May, when former Whale Watching Skipper Colin Barnes and leading Underwater Cameraman and Documentary Film-maker Ken-O’Sullivan Joined Claire Byrne on her mid-morning current-affairs show to discuss the staggering decline in marine wildlife off the West Cork coast, and the importance of Sprat in maintaining a healthy marine ecosystem.
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