Cork airport: Ireland busiest fish port

lostexpectation

Protests staged over fish imports
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0606/fishing.html
At a demonstration by fishermen at Cork Airport, Sean O'Donoghue, who is also chief executive of Killybegs Fishing Organisation, said that they wanted to draw public attention to a huge level of cheap imports, which the EU was allowing from outside Europe at a time when European fishermen were in serious difficulty.

you'll see a sign in the tv report saying cork airport is ireland biggest fishing port, i ugess you can imagine fish flying in frozen just like on boats but does anybody know what sort of fish it is, how it can bigger then any other port distribution...


has (commercial) fishing still not being added to this forum?

The_Conductor

lostexpectation wrote: »

has (commercial) fishing still not being added to this forum?

We don't mirror the Department

I'm not familiar with imports via the various ports (and airports)- but I'll see if I can dig out some trade stats.

lostexpectation

http://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/national-news/fisherman-blockade-dingle-pier-in-co-kerry-1404391.html

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0610/fishing.html?rss

blocking port and air fish imports

lostexpectation

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0610/fishing.html
they say they have to dump fish that they 'accidentally' catch in the nets while its imported from overseas where they ahve more quotas for that type of fish.

CJhaughey

Fish don't choose who's net they come up in.
It is a crazy state of affairs for an Island nation to be denied the ability to land what the fishermen catch.