Significant changes in traffic management are being considered in the country’s biggest whitefish port to ensure expansion of the industry in the coming years is not hampered by gridlock.

The High Court has declared the manner in which penalty points were imposed on the licence of a sea-fishing vessel over an under-recorded catch was contrary to fair procedures.

A full-scale war under way between the Department of Agriculture and the Inland Fisheries Ireland is likely to determine the fate of Europe’s biggest fish farm planned for Galway Bay.

Driving test waiting times could be slashed to an average of 10 weeks by the end of the year, a financial watchdog said today.

A FISHERIES board has threatened to sue a local council unless it stops contaminated sludge seeping from one of its own sewage treatment plants into a river.