Super Trawlers Ban Them Call!

November 20, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE We have followed up correspondence to the Irish government about the marine vandalism cause by so called ‘super trawlers’ fishing of the West of the British Isles with a call to both the EU Commissioner for the Marine

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Sea Monster Moves In For The Kill

November 15, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE I advised yesterday that we were tracking the progress of the MFV ANNELIES ILENA the Dutch registered trawler which is the largest in the world and when first commissioned (in Ireland as the ATLANTIC DAWN) some years ago

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Trawler Leviathan Has Got To Be Bad News For Fish Stock Sustainability

November 14, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The second largest trawler in the world the 143 metre Margaris which can catch and process 250 tonnes of fish a day is in waters to the North West of Donegal. I have been tracking the vessel all

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Sea Monster Heads West

November 14, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE With communities up the west coast of Ireland and Scotland battening down the hatches the seafarers on that sea leviathan of a trawler the Margaris are still working it seems off the west of Donegal. It would seem

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Submarine Problem Resurfaces

April 21, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The recent incident involving a Motor Fishing Vessel and a Submarine of the west coast of the Isle of Man reminds us that sadly a problem that fishermen knew only to well in the 1980s is back to

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Man: Row Deepens Over Contaminated Silt Dump

April 15, 2015

NEWS FROM THE CELTIC LEAGUE The row over a decision to move thousands of tonnes of contaminated silt from a Marina on the west of the Isle of Man has deepened with concerns that the transit of the material to an onshore site

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