Your Voice in Our Industry 

We, the Irish Fishing & Seafood Alliance (IFSA), are calling on the Irish Government to defend and support Ireland's coastal communities who rely on the fishing and seafood industries for their survival.

The honest, hardworking people of our coastal regions are seeking urgent redress of the unfair, unreasonable and unacceptable outcome of the recent UK/EU BREXIT deal which saw Ireland suffer devastating losses in fishing quotas (up to 60% in some species) whilst other EU nations, fishing in IRISH WATERS, only incurred nominal losses to their quota entitlements.

Irish waters are the richest marine resource in Europe, yet Ireland, whilst physically owning in excess of 11% of these waters, is only allocated 3.9% of EU quota.

The EU Commission's approach to transferring quota to the UK would appear to be arbitrary and heavily weighted against the interests of the Irish fishing and seafood industries.

This 'deal' has been neither qualified or rationalised.

The fish in Irish waters are not individually owned but belong to the citizens of Ireland - they form the lifeblood that sustains the economies of our rural coastal communities.

By showing YOUR support for this petition you are defending an Irish sustainable, environmentally-friendly, healthy, and extremely valuable natural resource - both for now and for future generations to come.

Our Government must fight for justice. This must take the form of a meaningful and proportionate share to our rightful entitlement of our own resource. A token gesture from the EU should not be tolerated.

The Irish Fishing & Seafood Alliance want the Irish Government to defend our industry against the EU pillaging of our marine resource.

Our elected political leaders must immediately give greater recognition and urgent priority to the Irish seafood industry and the vital role that our coastal communities play in the economics and culture or rural society.