Minister tells seafood centre users to expect global surge in demand

FISHERMEN operating out of the new National Seafood Centre at Clogheen, Clonakilty, Co Cork, can look forward to a surge in global demand for fish, according to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney.

Mr Coveney said this new “one-stop shop” for seafood processing will be ideally placed to serve the world’s need for an extra 42 million tonnes of seafood annually from 2030, as the UN estimates.

The new Clogheen centre will service the seafood-related functions of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority and BIM’s (Bord Iascaigh Mhara) business innovation and seafood product development activities.