Cormac Burke: Desperation is turning to anger in Ireland’s fishing industry

Irish Fishing & Seafood Alliance chairman writes that coastal communities are enraged at the effective sell-off of Irish fisheries

A flotilla of fishing boats passing Blackrock Castle on its way to the Port of Cork during a previous trawler demonstration. Cormac Burke says future protests may not be quite as polite. Picture: Dan Linehan

As readers see this article, there’ll be a temptation to think its just another fishing industry sob story — and indeed who could blame them?

It is decades since we’ve heard anything positive and yet this sector consists of thousands of people in coastal communities crying out that their traditional way of life is being gradually eliminated and eradicated by government.