Bureaucracy costs fish-farming up to €60m investment and 2,000 jobs
A new IFA report entitled Removing Barriers to Irish Aquaculture Development concludes that marine investors are being dissuaded by the absence of a working, transparent licensing system.
The applications for licences must pass by the Department of Agriculture’s aquaculture and foreshore management division, its engineering division, Bord Iascaigh Mhara, the Marine Institute, Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, National Parks and Wildlife Service.
