The newly formed Irish Native Oyster Fisheries Forum, funded under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, restores native oyster populations.

The Bloom garden festival, which opened in Dublin’s Phoenix Park yesterday, celebrates just one of the positive ways in which we interact with the natural world.

OUR grandmother’s liking for carrageen moss was looked upon as a sort of an oddity, says Donal Hickey.

SMOKED salmon is the easy part of Christmas. Throw it on brown bread, with lemon and black pepper, and the innocents will think it’s posh and that you’ve spent a lot. 

The state agency in charge of the country’s rivers has called on the Department of Agriculture to consider a study which concluded fish farming has a "general negative effect" on sea trout stocks, when deciding to grant permission to a planned 1,000-acre fish farm off the Aran Islands.

The report used by Bord Iascaigh Mhara to allay fears about the threat posed to wild salmon stocks by salmon farming has been dismissed as “flawed” by international marine scientists.

This week’s government report that angling and angling tourism are worth over €0.75bn — and 10,000 rural jobs — to the economy every year is very welcome.

OYSTER fishermen on Lough Swilly have been told their licences will not be issued this year, cutting their season in half.

UNREASONABLE consumer pressure on the Irish hospitality sector to reduce prices could put many fine establishments out of business, renowned food writer Georgina Campbell has warned.

ATLANTIC Film Alliance is making a documentary about filmmaker George Morrison and is trying to track down the full print of an Irish-language cartoon called Tá na Báid (1958).

A DECISION by the Government to transfer key functions for the fishing industry to the newly named Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has been welcomed by the seafood sector.

SHOPPERS were urged yesterday to do their bit to keep fisheries afloat by choosing their fish products carefully.

Leading businessman Tadhg O’Donoghue has been reappointed as Chairman of the ESB for a further five-year period by the Government, it emerged today.

UP to 4,500 aquaculture jobs could be created off the west coast, according to a report by Bord Iascaigh Mhara.

The world’s first quality assurance scheme for wild salmon to have been awarded the internationally recognised standard EN45011 was launched by Bord Iascaigh Mhara yesterday.

Progressive Democrat president Michael McDowell says his party was not consulted over the appointment of Joe Burke as chairman of Dublin Port.