Killybegs fisheries sector to gain 250 jobs in department-led initiative

THE fisheries sector in Killybegs, Co Donegal, will gain an additional 250 jobs by 2014 under an initiative formally launched yesterday by the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Simon Coveney.

The report has been produced by the department’s high-level group on job creation in the Killybegs region, a group which Mr Coveney set up in June following the economic report for the European Commission.

With representatives from the seafood sector, tourism, education, enterprise, the department-led group assessed the status, development and potential diversification of Killybegs as a fisheries-dependent community.