Fisheries Forum
Summary:
Fisheries Forum Reports
Published on this site on:
05 August 2010
Availability:
This document is available to download by following the link below or by writing to:
Fisheries Forum.
The Fisheries Forum was established by the Minister to allow key stakeholders and the Department to work together to address long-term issues in the fishing industry and to recommend a strategy which:
- balances fishing effort and fleet capacity against the available fishing resources to ensure the long-term sustainability of the industry and fish stocks and the marine environment;
- addresses the need for restructuring and modernisation;
- identifies measures which can be taken to respond to the increasing fuel prices and which will improve fuel efficiency in the fleet;
- identifies measures which will improve competitiveness, profitability and cooperation across the different sectors of the industry; and
- agrees how the funding available under EFF should be prioritised.
Over the period of the Fisheries Forum work a wide range of stakeholders have contributed significantly to this work. This has involved both producer organisations and individual fishermen, the main processing interests, fish sales representatives, inshore fisheries representation and the Marine Taskforce as well as AFBI scientists, Seafish, Fishery Harbour Authority, DETI and DARD and representatives of the Tri-Council Working Group. There have been complementary meetings also with a range of different interests on the aquaculture sector.
Copies of the minutes of the nine Forum meetings can be obtained by contacting the address below.
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Fisheries Division
4th Floor North
Dundonald House
Upper Newtownards Road
Ballymiscaw
Belfast
BT4 3SB
Tel: 028 90765305
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