‘Swim Safe’ with the RNLI this September

Children aged 7-14 are invited to learn vital water safety skills through the RNLI's Swim Safe programme when it visits the Share Centre in Lisnaskea, Co Fermanagh. The free, hour-long sessions on September 14 and 15 can take up twenty children…
Irish mackerel and prawn fisheries are heavily dependent on access to UK waters

Fish-eye view in a ‘crash out’ post-Brexit world

In 2017, the United Kingdom submitted notification of its intention to withdraw from the Union. This means that if the Withdrawal Agreement is not ratified, the EU's primary and secondary law (including fisheries) will cease to apply to the…

MPI unveils the ‘JetMaster’ prototype at AquaNor 2019

As well as displaying the world’s fastest remote-controlled automated farm cage cleaning robots at this year’s AquaNor exhibition in Trondheim, Norway (August 20th – 23rd), aquaculture cage washing experts Multi Pump Innovation (MPI) have…

Microplastics discovered in deep cold-water habitat

Irish artists Gareth Kennedy and Sarah Browne joined a six-day research expedition on board the Marine Institute's RV Celtic Explorer to investigate cold-water habitats in the Porcupine Bank Canyon, over 300km off the west coast of Ireland. Their…

Families of disaster victims declare deaths were ‘unlawful’

Relatives of the 51 victims of the Betelgeuse oil tanker explosion and fire at Whiddy Island in 1979 are to seek a High Court declaration that the deaths were ‘unlawful’. The certificates currently describe the cause of death of each…

Ireland must ratify the Cape Town Agreement to protect its citizens

Ireland must ratify the Cape Town Agreement for fishing boat safety in international waters and protect its rescue services from unnecessary and sometimes dangerously hazardous long-distance call outs, writes Michael Kingston in the Summer issue…

Bluefin tuna fishery in Irish waters remains closed

Fifteen authorised skippers from Cork, Clare, Galway, Sligo and Donegal are participating in a pilot, data collection programme on bluefin tuna (mid-August to mid-October) that will catch, tag and release fish under Tuna CHART.  Only these…

Green light for quay extension at Killybegs

A €15m capital works project has been approved to deliver a 120m quay extension at Killybegs, Co Donegal, under Project Ireland 2040. Marine minister Michael Creed said the contract with ABCO/Fugro JV, was a "very significant investment"…

Safety at sea training tops 8,000 in the fishing industry

Since its introduction in 2001, over 8,000 people in Ireland's fishing industry have completed basic safety at sea training. Provided by the seafood development agency, BIM has also issued more than 2,000 Personal Flotation Devices (PDFs)…