10 Benefits of Marine Protected Areas for fishing and coastal communities
With collaboration throughout Ireland’s Marine Protected Area process, Ireland’s waters continue to support coastal communities and wildlife.
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IRISH OCEAN LITERACY SURVEY REVEALS DEEP CONNECTION AND CONCERN FOR MARINE ENVIRONMENT
Ocean literacy is the understanding of our individual and collective impact on the ocean and its impact on our lives and wellbeing
Ten Key Asks of Ireland’s MPA Bill
Ireland's current MPA network lacks monitoring and management, rendering the areas ineffective. New legislation must address this.
Fair Seas submission to the first public consultation on Ireland’s draft National Nature Restoration Plan
Ireland's draft Nature Restoration Plan is an opportunity to reverse the decline of our marine environment on a huge scale.
Ireland’s First Marine National Park – consultation response
Inclusive plan development is key to ensuring sustainable use, cultural recognition, ecological recovery and long-term success of the Páirc.
Conservation of sharks in the north of Ireland – consultation response
Fair Seas has responded to the draft strategy consultation, highlighting concerns with shortfalls in the aims laid out in the document.
Fair Seas Response to Consultation on Trawling Activity Inside the Six Nautical Mile Zone and the Baselines
All sea-fishing boats over 18m in length overall excluded from trawling inside the six nautical mile zone and baselines’.
What’s to be won at Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on biodiversity loss?
This was the first meeting of Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly on biodiversity loss. This is the first Citizens’ Assembly anywhere in the world to debate and discuss the decline of nature.
Deep flaws in Europe’s REPowerEU proposals
The climate and biodiversity crises are inextricably linked, one can't and shouldn’t be resolved at the expense of the other. Fair Seas has responded to the European Commission’s REPowerEU plan.
Respecting our seas: the quest for ‘Good Environmental Status’.
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) is a European law designed to bring about ‘Good Environmental Status’ (GES) across European seas, including Irish waters.