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Every vessel from Scotland to Jersey will be registered in Belfast
Exactly, I wonder how the quotas will be adjusted? A lot of the super trawlers bought up UK quota, will all that revert back to the UK or will it remain “eu” quota?
Its inside the six mile limit it will only affect inshore fisheries
Excellent question
For a 10 to 12 metre boat and Irish polyvalant licence cost around €70000 plus the price of a good boat another €70000 . €150000 it cost an southern Irish fisherman to go fish. So if Northern Ireland boats get access to our waters at a fraction of this cost around 70-80k for boat and licence for the same access and fish . This means the Southern Ireland fisherman with big boat mortgages would be at a huge downfall. They already have been fishing illegally for a very long time and have only been stopped a few months ago. I can’t actually believe as a fisherman myself that the government is going to allow it to continue without consulting Irish fishermen. The always go above our head n feck everything up.
@dotty: you get it better than the Minister! or is he being held hostage by his civil servants?
There would have to be complete equalisation of compliance costs like that, enforceable by arbitration and fines for the offending state to restore an even keel. Likewise some sort of mini-CAP type arrangement could be employed to balance out imbalances arising from the difference in size of capital markets. The important thing here is continued mutual co-operation in fisheries protection for pollution and polluters, poachers and depleted stocks, recognise no borders nor no laws and the sea is a mighty big place and our boats so small (O Lord)…
@dotty:
There is no such thing as “Southern Irish fisherman”, there are only Irish fisherman. Hard to believe that we celebrated the centenary of 1916 just last year and we still get shit like this … meanwhile we are paying taxes to subsidise the same “southern Irish fisherman”
@Phelim Murnion: Phelim you are badly mistaken. What are these subsidies that Southern Irish fishermen get?
As to this “for the good of the nation” argument, it seems that NI wants the best of both worlds. You want to be from the UK when it suits to get free health, lower taxes etc and you vote accordingly. But you are Irish when there is something going free in the South. There is no suggestion of NI boats giving up access to Scotland, Wales or English waters. No you want the best of both worlds. And you want it for free.
Whatever time you vote to join with the Republic, come back to me with a complaint then. Until then there should be no handouts to the North. Moreover, the NI authorities abused the goodwill towards them on this in the past in every way conceivable. It ended up with Dutch companies being awarded the right to take THOUSANDS of tonnes of fish/shellfish out of the Republic’s inshore waters.
In all seriousness, now that could not be justified could it?
When we reunite they should be given all the benefits of reunification including fishing rights.
Only if they pay taxes down here
You’re missing me the point, all the Uk fleet will register in the North then head into our waters.
With Brexit all the uk fleet are loosing access to our waters…that’s a good thing for us.
Agree tottally.only boats that are already fishing in our waters could be allowed but a restriction must be imposed on the size of the boats being used.Wrong wording would allow all UK fleet to register in Northern Ireland
Feck em. They’ve made their bed. Now lay in it. They should be stuck with UK waters only.
This might be more about Irish boats using UK waters. If that happened then the whole Spanish fleet would reflag in Ireland.
A friend of mine had a northern Irish licence and had been told to change it for a southern Irish licence or he couldn’t fish. So he had to come up with around €60000 to do this and now there thinking of reversing the decision. So he missed out on 3 months fishing and had to remortgage his house just so he could continue to make a living. Now the government are going to allow northern Irish boats back in our waters which means my friend would never of had to change his licence and remortgage his house. This government need to communicate with the actual people these decisions affect. Instead the sit behind there desk n pass the bill n the dail without consulting the fishermen
Wait, is your friend from northern ireland? If so You’re blaming our government for not consulting foreign businesses on our legislation? All our united ireland thing aside the north at the moment is a foreign country.
No he lives in Southern Ireland . The point I’m getting at it was illegal and should not of been allowed in the first place, it’s been going on for more than 20years . You must be related to Simon coveney ex marine minister who didn’t have a clue about fisheries or marine he might of had a little farming background.
@dotty: you dont really expect this shambles of a govt to consider or even discuss issues with the people affected by their decission, they dont give a sh*t about anyone but their own quality of life….
@dotty:@dotty:if he has a Northern Irish boat he can fish all he wants in Northern Irish waters …. or anywhere else around the UK for that matter.
Read the comment he change from northern to southern licence because the Irish marine department was stopping northern boats from fishing in Irish waters but now their reversing the decision he changed for no reason at all and cost him €60,000 and no income for 3months because there is not proper communication and the decision should not have been reversed.
@dotty: lets hope the Supreme Court’s decision is not reversed. The fishing industry is outraged by the planned legislation.
That aside, if fishermen were genuinely misled by officials into buying NI boats to fish in the Republic, then they should speak to a good solicitor about seeking compensation. Allowing a free for all inside the 0-6 mile zone is not the answer but I do feel sorry for anyone that was genuinely misled.
@dotty:
I must be related to someone because i have the same surname?? moron.
And if your friend is from the south why didnt he have the license from the south in the first place? Maybe because he was trying to be a smart ass and get all fishing rights in the UK too along with the republic even though he wasnt from there? No sympathy for him.
“The government is planning to boats from Northern Ireland to fish very close to Irish shores” The standard of English on this site is sometimes appalling!
@tea biccies: brutal. It’s a short article too. Takes 40 seconds to read.
Of course not. Shouldn’t offer the benefits and adcantages of unification if we’re not united.
Yes we’re fast approaching make your mind up time. What’ll they do if Scotland cuts loose. But that’s probably why most of the personal insults hurled at the SNP come from Norn Irn.
Another point I’m going to make is there saying there going to allow southern boats access to northern waters and vice versa but some of the southern Irish fishing methods are illegal in Uk waters so it’s not going to benefit Irish fishermen to go fish up north . It will only benefit the northern boats to fish down in our waters. Which already are over exploited. They already have access to all uk waters they have enough why give them access to ours aswell.
Could Ian Paisley Jnr. and his pals go fishing in Dublin bay for prawns seen that he carries an Irish passport?.Just wondering.
Well stop wondering m8 – it’s bad for you…
What the hell is this poll all about?.Will it be ok if everyone on the trawler has an Irish passport?.
A good few Israelis have Irish passports too!
No, sorry. Unite Ireland, then they should be allowed. Too many taking advantage of our fishing waters.
Let them fish in republic waters – at least they live on the same island as us.
@Conor Heffernan: im guessing its not your livelihood that will we destroyed by this Conor?
Also it will be abused in every way possible. Last time it was big Dutch companies registering a company and a boat in Belfast and fishing until they almost wiped the mussel stock out.
On a point of principle people who are natives to the island of ireland should be allowed fish in its waters. If the legislation is poor and allows people to register their ships in this jurisdiction or the north and actually be residing elsewhere then that should be tackled.
@Conor Heffernan: if it s a point of principle you should surrender your own livelihood first, before surrendering fishermen’s livelihoods Conor.
The Irish government sold out the Irish fishermen when they joined the eu in the 70s. Letting the fishermen from the north fish in irish water isn’t going to make or break us at this stage.
@Conor Heffernan: Conor it destroyed the bottom mussel industry, which was one of the few fisheries where we couldnt blame the EU etc. for a bad deal.
Some of the boats that turned up from NI then didnt even have a fishing boat licence but our civil servants told them it was grand, fish away. If it was you or I that tried that we would be in Mountjoy before the morning!
NI has shown no willingness to police this in a sensible way. Instead they took every advantage they could out of the goodwill towards them. It has to stop.
Lots of people from the north work south of the border. Similar to the fishermen, this could be viewed as northern workers taking southern workers livelihoods/jobs. If northern fisherman are banned from southern waters should not northern workers be banned from working in the south also? When compared to the fishing fleet of the Republic is the northern irish fishing fleet of a similar size, smaller or larger?
@Conor Heffernan: Conor, respectfully I dont think you analogy makes any sense. Taking for nothing the natural resources of this country at the expense of citizens (and taxpayers) is different to contributing and paying taxes. Its more akin to someone eating in a restaurant and thinking its OK to leave without paying.
The UK fleet is much much bigger than the Irish fleet. The Northern Irish boats can fish all around the UK. They can also fish up to six miles from the shore all along our East Coast, along with the rest of the UK fleet. This is only about keeping control of the 0-6 mile zone. Its not much to ask.
Not until Northern Ireland is part of Ireland again and has no ties too the U.K.
No mentions the fact that Irish boats are allowed to fish in Northern Ireland waters. We are not returning the same favour to them. But that’s ireland one rule for us and everyone else can do one as long as we get our way.
Really? No mention? You might want to read all of it kev.
@KevJ: bullshit Kev. Irish boats do not traditionally fish up there. There isnt much to fish. Thats why we are not happy with the terrible deal proposed.
Plus, legally the UK immediately withdrew agreement not to prosecute Irish boats automatically once the Supreme Court decided it was illegal for them to fish here. Its in the terms of the UK’s secret letter from the 60s.
Shall we have electronic passports for those fish who show an inappropriate disregard for the invisible lines in the middle of Lough Swilly or Carlingford Lough? Under a hard Brexit, we can’t allow them to pass freely from one side to the other.
Leave the EU and get our fisheries back.For far too long they has plundered our waters while Enda waits for the next pat on his head. He has the audacity to be photographed with a painting of Michael Collins in the background, not fit to wipe his boots.
They absolutely shouldn’t be allowed. The fishing waters laws are restrictive enough already for Irish fishermen without there being more fish pulled into other places for them to be exported here after value being added to them…
The Irish government and the marine department have untill 2020 under eu common fisheries policies to have each fishery in Ireland at a sustainable viable level with proper management. Good luck with that the way there carrying on ,
No .
Planning to boats?
Yes with a quid pro quo amongst the various governments and local authorities that all boats of these islands, registered owned and crewed by at least one native actively involved in the quotidian operation of the vessel, may fish the waters of these islands. And in return the Royal Navy and the Irish Navy (and other relevant forces) jointly continue to co-operate and develop fisheries protection. And subject to other such provisos as necessary such as no dumping of waste in the waters, nuclear or anything else.
In a spirit of mutual co-operation and progress and mutual and equal esteem that has lately characterised relationships between these islands, relationships which long predate any sEUperstate diktat.
@John O’Driscoll: I think your comment is well intended john but please remember this is a onesided deal that fishermen do not want. It will result in livelihoods being destroyed and loss of income and taxes to the country.
But surely as they are fishing here now, UK vessels I mean, my approbation of continued arrangements does not give rise to a worse scenario than currently exists? Unless we mean import replacements, that the UK would want less Irish fish when they could come here and catch them in UK registered vessels for themselves without paying UK customs duties?
Granted that’s a major hazard. Solution I’m thinking might be along the lines of changing the definition of origin (as distinct from provenance) in the relevant EU regulation governing same for both preferential and non-preferential purposes. Time was I could tell you that ref off the top of my head. Ould age.
Anyway the definition which I’ve always thought poetical as it was last time I looked is “the nationality of the vessel that separates the catch from the sea” (as distinct say from the vessel onto which it is loaded afterwards) is the economic nationality of the catch. That could be changed, before BREXIT so it passes into subsequent UK sovereign customs law. The location of the catch, which must be logged contemporaneously with landing the nets, can be made automatic, and stored in block-chain format thus immune to fraudulent amendment and change, can be recorded and its weight and type of fish for tariff classification purposes, and that location used to determine origin for customs purposes. Just an idea.
Yes it is well intended Eugene and thanks for prefacing your dissent so kindly. Am experienced in fisheries and customs matters both and have an empathy for fishermen and for just and fair regulation and taxation not to mention also for our horribly abused fish and fisheries.
Non-logged catches landed would be treated as originating in the customs territory other than where it is declared for free circulation and taxed at entry.
The vessel’s own GPS can be employed to record the location of the catch occurring, in secure format; weights gathered from boom and winches or rather strain gauges embedded in them both when the nets are hauled from the water.
That then constitutes a customs declaration; can be remotely electronically sent to the port of intended arrival for automatic calculation of pro-forma duty liability (subject to random inspection and targeted controls) in advance of the vessel and deducted from the deferment account so landing and distribution from the port occurs seamlessly and unimpeded (or the fish could be entered to a bonded warehouse for re-export say). Or the skipper could wait and decide where he’s landing and present the manifest and declaration on arrival at his choice. There are options to prevent trade imbalance here Eugene that are less disruptive than hiding behind an hard border and peeping at the Other from our recounts. God knows we did that here 800 years and it mostly ended in tears including that big bitter bowl of them as Kennedy called the Atlantic so many wild grey wings had to flee across.
Sorry. Wax poetic or sea-doggrelish more like on such matters :). Geoffrey Chaucer, William Allingham, Maurice Walsh, Rabbie Burns and the likes all customs officers in their day knew it as an hazard of the job!
“Redoubts” not “recounts” iPad sorry
@John O’Driscoll: Enter into to an understanding and cooperation with the Royal Navy? Let’s invite the British Armed Forces in? What could possibly go wrong!?
Imagine what can possibly go wrong for Ireland’s fisheries if there’s no effective protection of them rather.
Don’t like seafood so i’ve opinion!
Only Catholic owned ones
So it appears to be more kneeling down to a 50 year old British law at the cost of our own. This is getting beyond humiliating.
It’s bad enough you have colossal factories sucking everything up off our coasts. This is another example of the Irish government killing the local fishing industry.
Keep the fcukers out
Was Simon Coveney the Minister who spent millions of Euro in two high court cases and one Supreme Court case to give British Vessels fishing rights along our shores and bays? Was Simon Coveney the Minister who proclaimed Ireland didn’t own it’s natural resources like mussels and fish?
Don’t trust Simon lead our country. Don’t trust Creed to lead our fisheries negotiations in Brexit.
@Ronan Kelly: Correct as FG are the Irish wing of the Tory Party and only jump to the demands of May and Merkel.
Hopefully ‘da lads’ can sell any rights we have for nothing and at the same time
make sure we never eat fish again…
Was it Simon Coveney as Marine Minister who spent millions in two high court cases and one Supreme Court case insisting the British Boats could fish right up to the Irish Coast and into the bays and tok the position that Ireland didn’t own it’s natural resources like mussels and fish? Don[t trust Simon Coveney to lead our Country.
Don’t let Michael Creed be minister for the Marine any longer.
No fish in English waters , ye are English after all ,,, stop trying to be Irish when it suits ye ,,, bloody English wanting to be Irish if there’s a few Bob to be made ,, f##k of blue bulbs
No. Brexit means brexit.
I wouldn’t think the ones flying the butchers apron would want our southern fish at all for fear what they might catch , for security reasons I wouldn’t allow the Arlene Navy near our sea, let Lizzie feed them
Irish political supine class have always shown t they jump to the demands of foreigners and never their own people. Irish fishing ,oil and gas rights given away.
Only if the boats are currently fishing in Irish waters and that any licence is specific in what size boats can fish and what they can catch.
@David Scully: understand what you are getting at David but in someways thats like saying people who get away with robbing pensioners today should be allowed rob pensioners going forward but we wont allow any new people to get away with it.
It was wrong in the past. It is still wrong and it will always be wrong.
If anyone was misled about the legality of this then they should take that up with a solicitor. Fishermen have been refusing to accept this “deal” since it was first proposed. Only difference now is that some of them risked everything in the Supreme Court to hold the government to account.
The Irish government shouldn’t be rushing in to make any arrangements over fishing or anything else until we see what the British are offering us after Brexit.
I think all fishing should be banned. Scientists reckon there will be no fish in the oceans by 2048 if we keep fishing the way we are, and keep polluting as we do. That is a harrowing thought, and everyone leaves it up to someone else to fix the situation. What we do to the Earth, we do to ourselves. We’ll probably only realise that when it is too late.
Only concern I’d have is that EU vessels are not disadvantaged while competing for fish with non-EU (ie. British) vessels by EU measures such as quotas, or that both sides agree to be bound by the same rules de jure and/or de facto.
@John O’Driscoll: erratum not ”only concern” many concerns in fact that’s just an Irish way of saying ”a main concern” sorry.
Give it 10 years and this wont make a difference as the country will be ‘somewhat’ united.
Fishing is a hard game. Lack of catch, following tides and looking for fish.
Some amount of shameful partitionist a55holes about.
@Tír Eoghain Gael: think you are missing the point. Giving away the benefits of being Irish without throwing their lot in with us is one sure way of guaranteeing partition. And this is primarily about big Dutch businesses using NI as a flag of convenience to access our inshore waters. Any goodwill towards NI was completely abused when that happened.
Sorry if over posting but this matter is hugely important and fair play Journal for giving it press. For good and Ill,We “gave away” our fisheries in 1973 in part at least because the immersed territory of Ireland is larger than the emmersed. Impossible to police on our own. Look at Somalia to see how unpoliced and unpoliceable industrial over-fishing has destroyed the fishing grounds and forced people to fall back on piracy in some cases, whose families for centuries peacefully made their living as fishermen.
It is essential that we not allow the waters of these islands fall prey to iron sharks and registrations of convenience and depredation more so than ever as BREXIT shapes up. Mutual self-interests guide most internationally successful efforts against the tragedy of the commons. As maritime nations, Ireland and the UK, in this one divided we most certainly will fall.
Joint co-operation between the navies and enforcement agencies of both states, one within one without the EU, is essential, as is collaboration in scientific research and funding, environmental protection and development, and shared maritime industries and interests that give rise to questions of pollution, taxation, and regulation in other areas such as health.
Not even Mr Trump could build an high enough wall for 200 miles out from and around our coastlines to otherwise keep out what would otherwise come in to our mutual permanent and lasting regret.
Sorry for over posting over and out.
The amount of garbage, refuse and junk that is wilfully thrown overboard from fishing vessels is already a complete eyesore which appears to be ignored by the powers that be, including the Minister and the Dept of Marine. Every form of junk you care to mention, from calking guns, to all sorts of plastics, netting, boxes, oil cans, tins, bottles, lubricants, paint tins, the list is endless. I even saw a plastic bottle filled with urine washed up on the shore recently. There is absolutely no on shore fishing anymore, certainly not along the Eastern sea board at any rate, zero, zilch. When I was a lad there was Pollock, Codling, Plaice, Guerned, Whiting, Sole, Rock Bream, lots of Mackerel in summer and even young Ra,y all caught on rod and line within 100 yards of the beach. It’s all gone, history, not just fished out of it but polluted out of too.
Most of these guys on fishing trawlers don’t give a hoot about our environment or our eco system, having no education how would they.
There’s no such thing as ROI waters. We sold them. Remember. There the EU’s waters now.
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