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Minister Dooley signs measures to ban large trawlers into law
On 30 September Minister of State with responsibility for fisheries, Timmy Dooley, TD, signed Policy Drective 1 of 2025, effectively giving legal standing to the measures announced by himself and Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Martin Haydon, on 22 July to restrict trawling by vessels larger than 18m inside six nautical miles and the baselines.
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Sprat- The Damage Done, May 2018
Originally published by Colin Barnes on his Cork Whale Watch “Skippers Log” in May 2018 — used here with permission from the original author.
For anyone following the discussion regarding the Irish government’s proposal to exclude large trawlers over 12 mts length fishing within 6 nautical miles of the coast, we hope that this article…
Update on sprat conservation issue in West Cork, Nov. 2014
Originally posted by Whale Watch Skipper and former commercial fisherman Colin Barnes on the Skippers Log section of his Cork Whale Watch website in November 2014
It is now mid-November, and true to the time of year, we have plenty of stormy, wet and disturbed Atlantic weather, making poor conditions for searching for and watching…
Decimation of Irish Sprat Stocks
This article was originally posted to the Cork Whale Watch Skippers Log by Colin Barnes, a long time commercial fisherman and one of Ireland’s most experienced and well respected whale watching operators in January 2014
Last January I wrote to Minister for Agriculture, Marine and Food, Simon Coveney, TD highlighting the problem of unsustainable inshore…
