On this edition, a link-up with the “Fisher’s Voice” video production company in the fishing village of Kilmore Quay, County Wexford, which has produced a documentary ‘”Exploiting Irish Fishermen.” From coastal communities all around Ireland and ancillary businesses depending economically upon them it describes a ”frightening scenario” as 16,000 jobs come under threat, the size of the national fishing fleet could be reduced and the supply of Irish seafood threatened.
FISHING INDUSTRY PROTEST There is a feeling in sectors of the fishing industry that more protests will have to be held to draw the attention of politicians and the public to the crisis challenging its future. The photograph above recalls the last...
The December edition of MARITIME IRELAND discusses whether – for all the time, money and effort, spent on extensive maritime scientific research – are scientists properly communicating to the general public what they have discovered? The Chief...
On the November edition, No.11 – The Nautical Institute outlines why more attention must be paid to the health and ‘wellness’ of seafarers. Capt .Steve Malone, Secretary of the Institute in Ireland, discusses the challenges facing seafarers on...
There’s something amazing in the waters off the West Coast that has solved a mystery of the natural world. That’s one of the topics on this month’s edition of the Maritime Ireland Radio Show, which also discusses the “spatial...
THE TALL SHIP GRACE O’MALLEY IN CORK HARBOUR DWARFS A LOCAL YACHT CAPTAIN GERRY BURNS ON THE TALL SHIP GRACE O’MALLEY IS INTERVIEWED ON THE SEPTEMBER EDITION OF THE MARITIME IRELAND RADIO SHOW The September edition of the MARITIME...
I was asked recently in a fishing port why so many of the fishing boats were tied to the quayside on a fine weather day and had not gone out fishing. Pursuing the question, to find a satisfactory answer, I heard more about the crisis in the fishing...
