Aquaculture & seafood ireland 2016

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• BIM and IFA Aquaculture - Higher Diploma course in Aqua Business at IT Carlow • Bord Bia - Seafood Expo Global - 20 Irish seafood companies hosted on Origin Green/Ireland stand • Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority - Sanitary Survey Programme for confidence and assurance • Marine Institute monitoring, advisory and statutory services protect aquaculture and ecosystem • Marine Harvest Ireland €22 million to invest subject to new licences and renewals

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Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland

2016

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CONTENTS Page 6 Contributors: Donal Buckley Colin Concannon Benen Dallaghan Marie-Aude Danguy Karen Devereux Richard Donnelly Lisa Fitzpatrick Richie Flynn Lynn Gilmore Fergal Guilfoyle Art Kavanagh Stefan Kraan Alistair Lane Donal Maguire Ian Mannix Siubhán Nic Grianna Maria O’Mahoney Editorial production: Gery Flynn Inshore Ireland Publishing Ltd Athenry, Co Galway H65 FR59 Tel: +353 91 844 822 Mob: +353 85 747 57 97 Email: flynn@inshore-ireland.com Web: www.inshore-ireland.com Advertisement Manager: Roger Cole Tel: +353 1 285 91 11 Mob: +353 87 261 15 97 Email: roger@silchestermarketing.com Web: www.silchestermarketing.com Design: Conleth Adamson 73 Foxfield Grove, Raheny, Dublim 5 Tel: 01 831 8103 Mob: 087 673 7441 Email: con@icongraphics.ie Cover picture: Bells Isle Oysters Co. Donegal - Jeffrey Thompson turning oyster bags Cover photo courtesy of BIM

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Creating the will to succeed: Donal Maguire, BIM’s Director of Aquaculture Development Services unveils a new Aqua Business course designed to upskill existing farmers and attract new talent to the industry 4 Taste the Atlantic – a seafood journey: Richard Donnelly, Manager of Aquaculture Business Planning at BIM describes how seafood awareness is growing along the Wild Atlantic Way 6 Seafood – the winning protein: Donal Buckley, BIM’s Director of Business Development and Innovation Services confirms that the fundamentals for Ireland’s seafood industry are strong 10 Back to the drawing board: Richie Flynn of IFA Aquaculture argues that a sustainable, competitive and stable aquaculture industry requires a good working relationship with regulators

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Catching the Tide: Ian Mannix of BIM reports that fresh thinking and innovative new products from seafood retailers are growing a new generation of consumers 16 Bord Bia: Karen Devereux reports from Seafood Expo Global the world’s largest seafood trade event – where 20 Irish seafood companies were hosted on the Origin Green/Ireland national stand 18 Climate change: Benen Dallaghan of BIM highlights some of the far reaching impacts that climate change could have on aquaculture and fisheries 20 Investing in Ireland’s aquaculture and fishing industry: Art Kavanagh, independent marine finance consultant, tells it as he sees it and demonstrates that clarity is indeed a great gift 22

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Údarás na Gaeltachta: Siubhán Nic Grianna reports that marinebased enterprises in the Gaeltacht are becoming more competitive, developing new products and entering new export markets 30 CH Marine living up to its reputation as the one-stop-shop for the very best and most reliable marine equipment and safety supplies 32 The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority outlines its Sanitary Survey Programme - critical to maintaining confidence in Irish seafood and providing customers with the assurances they require 34 Marine Harvest Ireland: already contributing €15 million annually to the domestic economy has ear-marked a further €22 million investment over five years - subject to new licences and renewals 36 W&J KNOX – the renowned Scottish net maker continues to provide expertise and experience to the aquaculture industry

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BESNARD renowned for the quality and durability of its products, the French company wins praise for its new innovative circular oyster grader 39 Triskell Seafood Ltd: Marie-Aude Danguy looks forward to providing a wider range of specialised aquaculture equipment for her customers 40 Aquaculture UK 2016 25-26 May bigger and better than ever with over 130 exhibitors from around the world showcasing the latest in aquaculture health and innovation 41 Aquaculture Europe 2016: Alistair Lane invites everyone to this years Edinburgh International Conference Centre (IECC) from 20-23 September 42

Seafish Northern Ireland: Lynn Gilmore explains the key role played by the Northern Ireland Fish Producers Organisation, and she introduces two successful seafood companies 24

The Marine Institute: Lisa Fitzpatrick outlines some of the monitoring, advisory and statutory services that support the aquaculture industry and ensure the protection of the marine ecosystem

JFC Marine: Colin Concannon, head of sales at JFC Marine, on the launch of its innovative blow moulded MF330 mussel float – designed and manufactured for the most demanding sea conditions 27

Aquaculture and Fisheries Development Centre: Maria O’Mahoney, Manager of the AFD outlines its five strategic research areas, and reports that research funding currently amounts to €7.4m 46

Gaelforce Marine Equipment strengthens its commitment to aquaculture with a new bespoke mooring system conceived and designed to deliver higher security at lower cost 28

Ocean Harvest Technology Ltd: Stefan Kraan, Scientific Director at OHT, reports that seaweeds are increasingly replacing fishmeal as a protein source in farmed animal diets 47

PHARMAQ joins US-based ZOETIS, the largest animal health company in the world to bring a wealth of new experience and resources in terms of market access and R&D

Organic seaweed production in Ireland: Fergal Guilfoyle, Organic Trust Aquaculture Inspector, reports that organic certification is a low cost and simple process for producers

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How do we create the will to capitalise on the potential for Ireland’s aquaculture sector?

Donal Maguire, Director of Aquaculture Development Services at BIM

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reland’s remote coastal communities have always relied on the bounty from the sea and with the demand for Irish seafood increasing at a faster rate than our fishing quota allocations can sustain, aquaculture offers these communities the potential for much needed employment and revenue.

Whilst Irish farmed fish and shellfish enjoys an excellent reputation and commands premium prices on global markets, we are not producing enough to meet market demand. With this natural untapped resource available to us, how do we create the will to capitalise on its potential and develop a sustainable aquaculture industry that in return supports jobs and ancillary services for our coastal communities?

I think it’s very simple. It’s down to creating a broad based public acceptance of this new and badly needed source of extra seafood

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production and jobs.

Aquaculture is a relatively new industry around our coastline, carried out on the foreshore which the State holds in shared ownership for every citizen of the country. It’s not done on private property behind fences or walls.

For that reason, aquaculture has to be elaborately licensed, and because of the requirement to license, it is susceptible to being stopped or slowed down by people who just don’t like fish farming. Their reasons for objecting stem from a whole variety of motivations, some of which are entirely legitimate, others arise from a simple fear or mistrust of anything new.

I believe that it’s now time to embrace aquaculture in all its forms whether salmon and trout farming, oyster farming, farmed mussels or farmed seaweed. As a relatively new industry, there is an opportunity to

attract new talent and skills into the sector. I am sure there are many young people, particularly in our remote coastal communities, who are not interested in an office-based job but are looking to work in the outdoors developing this highly sought after natural product in their own community rather than having to move to our cities or emigrate abroad out of necessity. They may not have considered a career as an oyster, salmon or mussel farmer but they should.

Once you talk to our dedicated farmers around the coast, you immediately pick up on their passion and enthusiasm for the job. To attract the best talent in the sector and to upskill existing farmers, BIM, in partnership with the Institute of Technology Carlow and IFA Aquaculture has just introduced a Higher Diploma in Aqua Business course. This course will be run on both the Wexford Campus and main campus of IT Carlow. It offers QQI L8 modules though lifelong learning over two evenings per week and 6/7 Saturdays for two semesters.

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The course will give graduates the ability to prepare aquabusiness plans to extend a product range and develop export markets.

Hands-on qualifications like this will equip future farmers with the business acumen to complement their technical expertise to ensure they succeed in the years ahead.

It’s really all about creating a new sustainable raw-material supply. That raw material will then feed primary and secondary processing, and that level of activity will create further upstream and downstream employment. With Irish Organic Salmon exports increasing from €47m in 2014 to to €77m in 2015 and our overall shellfish sector performing well with mussel exports increasing 6% to €14 million, the opportunity to grow this vital sector must be supported.

Aquaculture is the future for Ireland’s seafood industry. If a broad based acceptance based on facts and a balanced understanding of the benefits that aquaculture will bring to an area could be created, then development of the sector would accelerate rapidly and with it job creation and economic regeneration of our coastal communities.

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Taste the Atlantic – a seafood journey Richard Donnelly, Aquaculture Business Development Manager

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ast year BIM and Fáilte Ireland came together to highlight the seafood producers along the Wild Atlantic Way under the title Taste the Atlantic – A Seafood Journey. The success of the Wild Atlantic Way has spurred numerous activities along the route including food trails, walks and an array of other activities for tourists. BIM approached Fáilte Ireland to look at how the Wild Atlantic Way could benefit the numerous seafood producers based along the route. With 80% of Irish aquaculture production coming from the coastline along the Wild Atlantic Way it seemed an ideal opportunity to offer Irish seafood direct to travellers of this route. It also provided tourists with an opportunity to meet the producers directly and sample some of the excellent products grown and harvested along the Wild Atlantic Way. The fishermen and aquaculture producers along Taste the Atlantic have in the past been focused on the bulk export markets. Many tourists often commented to BIM on the difficulty in purchasing seafood around the coast of Ireland. The Taste the Atlantic is a response to this, providing tourists and locals alike with a chance to meet seafood producers who are based on the Wild Atlantic Way. Many of these producers are now deriving their livelihoods from operating tourist activities from the direct sale of seafood on the roadside to tours of their facilities and a chance to find out how the products are caught or grown. In fact there has been a significant increase

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in the sales of locally grown aquaculture products, in particular mussels and oysters, in the Irish domestic market in 2015. This is evidence of an increased awareness of both international tourists but also by Irish consumers of the excellent seafood available along our coastline.

The project began in the summer of 2015 along The Bay Coast region of the Wild Atlantic Way from Galway to Achill. A total of seven producers mainly focused on mussels and oysters participated in setting up the Taste the Atlantic route.

Failte Ireland assisted by linking details of the producers and the restaurants they also supplied in the region on their Wild Atlantic Way

Kate and Simon Kennedy of Killary Fjord Shellfish, Leenane, Co Galway

website and though social media. A promotional video was produced by BIM and distributed via a range of social media platforms and can be seen on www.bim.ie and www.wildatlanticway.com The benefit for both producers and restaurants

was evident with a significant increase in sales, in the region of 25%, reported by both sectors.

In light of the success of the pilot project BIM and Failte Ireland plan to increase the number of producers in The Bay Coast Region and extend the trail further north along the Wild Atlantic Way to The Surf Coast (Achill –Sligo) with three more producers joining the Taste the Atlantic trail.

The Taste the Atlantic has allowed producers capitalise on the success of the Wild Atlantic Way and highlights just what a rich diversity of quality seafood produce we have along the route. From tours of the Connemara Smokehouse to dinning on the shores of Killary with mussels from Killary Fjord Shellfish. All the producers bring a unique identity to our seafood industry. It also provides tourists from near and far a chance to see where we harvest and farm our seafood. The locations speak a thousand words and we look forward to an even more successful year as we expand the Taste the Atlantic trail.

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he current training portfolio for the aquaculture sector includes a full-time QQI Level 5 Certificate in Aquaculture based at BIM’s National Fisheries College of Ireland (NFCI) in Castletownbere, Co. Cork. This course is usually run once per year, taking 4 months to complete. A wide range of modules are delivered including shellfish farming, finfish production, hatchery operations, work-boat handling and the focus is on practical, work-experience on farms in the area. The 2016 course also includes 2 week work experience on oyster farms in France.

In order to expand the availability of this course BIM plan to deliver the QQI Level 5 certificate as a part-time course based in Connemara, in association with Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB). This course will begin in September 2016 and will take over one year to complete.

The part-time nature of this course makes it available to current employees of aquaculture producers in the area and also those interested in working in the sector or starting their own business.

BIM also provides mentoring aimed at developing new products and expanding business offerings. The role of the Business Development and Innovation (BDI) Division in BIM is to assist the growth of established businesses in the Irish Seafood sector through expansion and targeting new markets. Workshops are delivered nationwide and in 2016 the focus will be on co-ordinating scale development and accessing new markets for seafood product.

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In order to take the Irish Seafood Industry to the next level BIM are working with the Institute of Technology Carlow (Wexford Campus) to develop a Higher Diploma (H.Dip.) in Aqua Business which will focus on the business of seafood and will include modules on Aqua Business Economics, Law and Regulation and Strategic and Final Management for the aquaculture, fisheries and processing sectors. Aimed at current seafood business owners, recent business graduates who want to specialise in the seafood industry and employees who want to upskill, this course will be taught through Lifelong Learning, by evenings and weekends, based in the Wexford campus of I.T. Carlow. This innovative course is scheduled to begin in September 2016.

BIM are working at a national level with 3rd level institutions and Education and Training Boards (ETBs) on curriculum development. The current training offerings are being constantly updated and improved while new courses are being written such as a new seaweed gathering course, a new diving supervisor course for fish farms and new Food Safety Management Systems courses.

For more information on new and existing courses or future developments in seafood training please contact John Connaughton/SinĂŠad Howard in the training section of the Fisheries Development & Training Services Division in BIM at 01 2144 262/241, email: training@bim.ie or the BIM website www.bim.ie/training

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Seafood: the winning protein Donal Buckley, Director of Business Development & Innovation at BIM

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uring 2015, the Irish seafood sector continued to perform impressively; with exports up 9% to €565 million, and the domestic market also demonstrating growth, up 2% to €346million.

Salmon was the star performer (exports €77 million, +66%) achieving an average export price of €7.90 per kg - well above the European average due to its premium organic positioning.

Shellfish also did well - up 11% to €194 million - with a recovering EU market for high value shellfish, crab, prawn, mussels and oysters.

Increasing demand continued for Irish crab, oysters and clams in China, with no evidence of a slowing market there. Overall in 2015 the average unit price of a kg of fish grew by 12%.

WHY THE FUTURE LOOKS GOOD During 2015 there were good tail winds behind the industry and the weak Euro proved to be very advantageous for exports.

And, looking forward, the fundamentals for the seafood industry are strong.

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1. Global seafood consumption is growing faster than demand due to: • Growing worldwide populations and per capita consumption.

• Rising purchasing power of emerging middle class consumers in Asia where seafood is the protein of choice.

• Wild seafood stocks are constrained, and aquaculture production is unlikely to keep pace with demand.

3. Prices for seafood are expected to increase between 20% - 25% through 2020: • Driven by demand in Asia, China is expected to

double its per capita spending from 2007 to 2020.

• Increasing product innovation and valueadded delivery systems.

3. Seafood is the healthiest protein, with excellent nutrition for mind and body: • FAO highlights: “Fish is a food of excellent nutritional value, providing high quality protein and a wide variety of vitamins and minerals, including vitamins A and D, phosphorus, magnesium, selenium and iodine in marine fish”.

• Species like salmon and mackerel are rich in the long chain omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA that reduce the risk for cardiovascular disease.

Data indicates that EPA and DHA also reduce the risk of a large number of other health issues.

• With increasing global obesity rates, governments and food and health advisory bodies are encouraging people to eat fish at least twice a week.

4. Seafood is a resourceefficient and climate-friendly way to produce protein: • Compared to land-based animals fish are cold blooded and do not have to use energy to heat their bodies. They also swim gravity free and have high muscle to bone content and are extremely efficient converters of food to protein.

• Fish have a lower carbon footprint compared to other protein sources, a factor that is expected to be become increasingly important as the world seeks to limit the emission effects on the environment.

5. Fish is a convenient, tasty and easily digestible protein: • Fish is a versatile product that can be used in numerous dishes in most culinary traditions.

• Fish appeals to consumers as a tasty and easily digestible protein.

• Consumer education is crucial in the uses and variety of fish and shellfish. And producers will also have to deliver fish in boneless, rightsized and packages which both protect the product as well as making it easy to use.

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6. Ireland’s proximity to the rich fishing grounds of the North Atlantic is a competitive advantage: • With Ireland’s share of the 1.2m tonnes available (25%, or 315,000 tonnes) there is ample opportunity to expand the raw material base.

• By developing processing scale and value-adding expertise, Ireland can position itself to become a Euro Processing Hub for the North Atlantic. This means not just processing our quota, but also increasing our share of the overall catch from the North Atlantic to generate better factory utilisation and employment in coastal communities.

Seafood is a winning protein and for Irish producers the challenge now is to develop leadership that

will attract talent, build a sustainable and expanding raw material base, innovate and maximise value-added, and upskill key areas of new product development, marketing and finance.

BORD IASCAIGH MHARA BIM supports a growing and thriving sustainable Irish

seafood industry through its offices in Dún Laoghaire and in key fishing ports around the coast with a clear focus on key priority areas such as innovation, skills, competitiveness and sustainability.

BIM’s Seafood Development Centre (SDC) in Clonakilty, Co. Cork offers seafood companies

the expertise and technology to develop and market test innovative seafood products before commiting to capital expenditure.

BIM works closely with fishermen and fish/shellfish farmers to trial new technologies and research to inform industry how best to fish and farm efficiently. The agency alos advises the catching sector how to trial new nets and gear technology in compliance with Common Fisheries Policy legislation.

BIM delivers an extensive training programme of over 207 courses to fishermen from its two National Fisheries Colleges in Greencastle, Co. Donegal and Castletownbere, Co. Cork and on two mobile Coastal Training Units that visit every fishing port in Ireland.

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Win, lose… or back to the drawing board?

Richie Flynn, Executive, IFA Aquaculture fuelling a successful home grown processing industry.

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nyone experienced in Irish aquaculture will know we are now only seconds from midnight – a blink of an eye from a scenario where loss of markets due to low output becomes irreversible, or where lack of scale means our costs overwhelm our ability to compete against producers with supportive governments and access to funding.

The day of reckoning is coming where rural and coastal communities will have to count the cost of a litany of mistakes, missed opportunities and lack of effort at the highest levels in government.

Successive administrations and their servants have utterly failed to create an environment for sustainable development of what should be one of our most successful industries. Left to the farmers with clear transparent rules and a fair and responsive licencing system, Ireland could be out

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producing our neighbours, sharing the harvest potential around the coast to provide 12 month production and

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We don’t need to reach for the production levels of Norway or Spain to be successful, but neither do we need to be constricted by regulators who do not understand or care about the industry’s basic requirements, rearing processes, environmental challenges or business pressures.

We have relied on reports and targets fuelled more by ego and misunderstanding than reality or marketing

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know-how. Each and every “book of promises” has failed to deliver its objectives because of petty infighting or sheer inertia on the part of those with the levers of power to license and develop the sector who see themselves as above the concerns of the economy, employment, social cohesion, animal welfare or financial reality.

2015 saw the late publication of the National Strategic Plan for Aquaculture (NSPA) – a legal requirement by the EU to allow funds under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund to be spent. €34 million of that fund – mostly at a rate of 40% giving a total investment of €85m – is earmarked for Aquaculture up to 2021. We also had the very important Food Wise 2025 put on the record in 2015 – a plan for the entire food industry.

So what are the red flag items in these documents whereby we can judge the next government or its regulators, developers and policy makers? These are some of the items you need to watch out for to assess their real commitment: • Independent review of the aquaculture licencing system (Food Wise 2025) – having already missed the deadline on this, the pressure is now on to complete this task in 2016.

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• Timescales – all other

citizens of the state are entitled to transparency when it comes to applying for planning or any other licensed activity. After a decade in Clonakilty, why have we not seen the licensing division work with industry to create a clear set of workable deadlines and a more customerfocused service?

• Dealing with the backlog – given that Minister Simon Coveney had more licence applications on his desk leaving office than when he entered, how will the Department deal with an issue they seem so reluctant to tackle head on? Will the overarching power of the NPWS to stall or dictate licences conditions be

• Renewing salmon farm

Attitudes to local fish farms are considerably more positive than was the case in 2008.

licences – none of the marine salmon farm licences in the country have been renewed as the Department’s over the top requirements are excessively costly and totally unnecessary. Will the renewals begin to flow in 2016?

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tackled head on in the interests of coastal communities?

• Contingency plan to deal with compensation for biotoxin closures (NSPA) – will the next four month closure take the state by surprise or will they have a plan to deal

with it under the EMFF rules?

• Encouraging new entrants into the industry (NSPA) – how does the Department plan to do this given that no new entrant can receive funding without a full licence?

In many ways the government has a clear shot at an open goal with just seconds on the clock. A renewed aquaculture industry does not require either magic, deep philosophical thinking or hyper-complicated regulation. It requires commitment to the achievable goals of a sustainable competitive and stable industry with a good working relationship with regulators.

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Catching the Tide – growing more opportunities for seafood Ian Mannix, BIM

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alued at just over €210m per annum, the domestic Irish retail market for seafood is experiencing positive growth after a number of slower years during the economic downturn. The sector is serviced by over 130 independent seafood retailers and over 400 supermarket seafood counters around the country, offering a wide array of fresh, frozen and value-added produce to an increasingly discerning and knowledgeable customer base. In recent years a number of new independent seafood shops have opened around the country, accompanied by a growth of quality seafood offerings in supermarkets. This shows growing demand for native Irish seafood, as well as imported exotic species from further afield. It is heartening to see many of these shops opened by young entrepreneurs bringing new ideas to the sector. Many of these fishmongers will have forged close working relationships with local fishermen and producers, understanding and appreciating the hard work and sacrifice it takes to supply these products to the market.

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busy lifestyles, and competition from other proteins this is a challenging marketplace. Nevertheless, seafood has many positives to offer, not least the wide variety of species and taste, how quick and easy it is to cook, and many health benefits.

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knowledge and business mentoring. To build upon existing seafood retailer’s product knowledge BIM hosts a series of Seafood Masterclasses and events throughout the year. These are specialist ‘hands on’ practically based workshops covering areas such as advanced seafood quality, shellfish workshops, new product development and advanced seafood quality assessment. The ever popular, two-day introduction to fish handling and filleting workshop is run throughout the year and attracts both new industry entrants and those already working with seafood who are keen to learn how to prepare and fillet fish and

build their practical skills.

BIM also keeps a close eye on changing customer tastes and how these affect seafood sales. With modern

EXCELLENCE To recognise and reward younger people in the sector each year BIM runs the Young Fishmonger of the Year Competition. To find the most competent, capable and knowledgeable seafood staff, applicants are judged on a range of personal, business and technical skills.

Recent winners include George Stephens from The Fishmarket in Blanchardstown, Gerard Collier from the Fisherman’s Catch in Clogherhead, Co Louth, and James Kirwan, East Coast Seafood, Naas.

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competition has helped to highlight their seafood skills and knowledge to a wide customer base and drive their sales.

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Now, I have a range of valueadded products that my customers love. All these new ideas help to drive my business forward, and it’s important that fishmongers are constantly on the lookout for new ideas and products”.

FRESH THINKING Each year BIM leads study visits abroad to look at new and innovative seafood retail offerings and value-added products. Holland is a particularly popular destination due to its wide

range of progressive seafood retailers, from which many Irish retailers draw inspiration. George Stephens says: “During the BIM trip to Holland I was really taken by the wide range of valueadded seafood products which fishmongers sell, and I thought there would be a demand for similar ranges here in Ireland. I chose a few of the best ones, and the minute I got home I took the ideas and started

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have a wide range of top quality product as well as highly skilled and knowledgeable staff. When combined with new ideas, fresh thinking and innovative new products this will help to grow a new generation of seafood consumers. It would appear that the Irish seafood sector has an exciting future ahead.

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Seafood Expo Global (SEG) Karen Devereux, Bord Bia

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ord Bia again showcased Ireland’s seafood industry at this year’s Seafood Expo Global (SEG) in Brussels, April 26th – 28th. Formerly known as the European Seafood Expo, SEG is the world’s largest seafood trade event, attracting more than 26,000 industry buyers, suppliers, and media from over 140 countries. The event also awards the prestigious Priz d’Elite industry award for new and innovative seafood products.

Ireland has a remarkable track record in this regard, as last year the Prix d’Elite special award for Seafood Product Line was awarded to Rockabill and iASC for their Something Fishy range of seafood culinary butters.

This year Bord Bia hosted 20 Irish seafood companies on its Origin Green / Ireland national stand. Irish exhibitors on the Bord Bia stand showcased the full spectrum of species and products available from Ireland, including shellfish, whitefish, pelagics, and finfish in a range of formats, including live, smoked, chilled, canned, and frozen.

From farmed salmon, mussels and oysters, to live and processed shellfish, pelagic fish and frozen ready meals, the show offered an opportunity to communicate the Irish food industry’s sustainability commitments to a global audience of industry leaders. As the “fair of reference” for the seafood industry, SEG offers Irish companies the opportunity to identify new customers, meet existing clients, launch new products, broaden their export reach, and learn

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Bord Bia’s Ireland stand hosted 20 Irish seafood companies at Photo Bord Bia Seafood Expo Global 2016

about trends and innovations influencing the industry today.

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Irish seafood exports recorded further growth in 2015, rising by 6% to reach €570 million. In volume terms exports stood at 248,000 tonnes, down over 5% on 2014. The rise in export values reflects a jump of 12% in average export prices, which more than offset the drop in volumes.

The rise in unit prices demonstrates the on-going strength of demand in most key markets.

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SEAFOOD The main EU markets: France; Spain; UK; Italy and Germany continue to dominate seafood exports, accounting for around 56% of total export values.

France remained the largest export market showing strong value growth of over 4% on the back of unit price increases of over 11%. The Spanish market continued to show strong signs of recovery with exports up by over 15% against a backdrop of a 4% volume decrease. Exports to Italy increased by 13% in value terms while exports to the UK increased by 5% in value terms. Trade to Germany fell by 5% in value terms due to a sharp fall in mackerel and herring shipments in the early part of 2015.

Seafood exports to International markets reached approximately €187m, equating to around 33% of exports. Exports to the four main markets in Africa (Nigeria, Cameroon,

Egypt and Ghana) accounted for 19% of total seafood export values. The Nigerian market showed export value growth of 33% on the back of a 17% lift in export volumes. Seafood exports to Cameroon fell by 12% in value terms while shipments to Egypt were 18% lower.

Exports to the four main Asian markets (China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan) increased by 16% in value terms over 2015.

Strong value rises were recorded to China (+6%); South Korea (+35%), Hong Kong (+4%) and Japan (+46%) during the period.

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TRENDS The pelagic sector experienced a challenging 2015 due to depressed demand globally. This reflects the ongoing restrictions in trade to Russia. Pelagic volumes exported from Ireland decreased by 8% over 2015, with a concurrent 7% drop in the value of trade. The pelagic sector currently accounts for 38% of total seafood export values and 73% of the total volume exported.

Total whitefish exports increased by 9% in value against a backdrop of falling volumes, which contracted by 4%. This reflects a unit price increase of over 15% for the period. Export values to Spain, our main whitefish market increased by 12%.

This was driven largely by significant unit price increases (+10%) and a 2% increase in volumes exported during the period.

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Whitefish shipments to the UK fell by 3%, with trade to France 2% lower than 2014.

Total shellfish exports recorded a strong performance during 2015 with export values rising by 9% driven by a 3% increase in export volumes and a 6% increase in unit prices.

France, the largest export market for Irish shellfish, accounting for over 35% of value, eased slightly during the period. However, this was more than offset by a rise in trade to Spain and Italy, which recorded growth of 24% and 19% respectively.

Shellfish exports to Asia performed extremely well during this period. Exports to South Korea increased by 35% while exports to China increased by 134%.

Salmon exports had another successful year with unit prices increasing by around 5% and export values growing by 59% on the back of a 51% increase in volumes during this period. The French market continues to dominate Irish salmon exports, accounting for just over 50% of total value. The German market also demonstrated very strong growth increasing by 56% in value and 67% in volume. Salmon exports to the UK increased by 88% while trade to Canada and Belgium also showed strong growth during the period.

Oyster exports in 2015 were just shy of â‚Ź26m, reflecting a decrease in value of less than 1% against a backdrop of retracting volumes (down 2%). Stock levels were high at the beginning of 2015 and this put some pressure on prices, which persisted throughout the year despite the return to a normal growth season.

This was due to the carryover of stock from late 2014 on the back of the Russian embargo and reduced promotional activity.

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DEMAND The French market continues to dominate Irish oyster exports accounting for over 75% of total sales.

However, the value of trade was 12% lower than the previous year due to an oversupply of large-sized oysters since 2014 as well as an increased focus by Irish exporters on finding new markets outside France for premium grade oysters. As a result, oyster exports have shown very strong growth, albeit from a relatively low base, to markets such as China and Hong Kong, Singapore, UAE and the UK Total mussel exports were up by 7% over 2015. This increase in value was driven by a 28% rise in mussel volumes over the period.

Mussel exports to France increased by 5%, exports to Holland, the UK, and Italian markets showed modest growth of 6%, 10% and 5% respectively. Exports to Spain performed strongly, growing by 14% during this period.

Irish companies will continue to focus their new market development efforts in select markets in Asia, the Middle East and the United States in 2016. Bord Bia will continue to work closely with the sector to grow awareness of Irish seafood in these emerging markets with a large number of market development and promotional activities planned for the sector.

Opportunities and strong export demand continue to prevail for high value species such as salmon and shellfish. The growing awareness of species such as oysters, brown crab and prawns is also important especially in emerging growth markets such as China, Hong Kong and other markets in South East Asia.

TRAINING FOR THE AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY at the National Fisheries College, Castletownbere, Co. Cork

QQI National Vocational Certificate in Aquaculture This is a nationally accredited level 5 qualification in Aquaculture that is practical and hands on. It will appeal to people who have an interest in Marine Biology and the ocean. It includes Workboat handling, Finfish and Shellfish on - growing, and work experience carried out abroad.

Who is it aimed at?

This practical course would suit anyone who wants to enter this growth industry or who is working in the industry already. It will certainly benefit those who want to start their own fish farms, or wish to progress on to third level education to pursue studies in Marine Biology.

The course is held in the National Fisheries College of Ireland Castletownbere, Co Cork.

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Application forms are available from BIM (www.bim.ie) and should be returned to the National Fisheries College, Castletownbere, Co. Cork. Further information on content is available at NFC Castletownbere, (027) 71230 or rfccastletownbere@bim.ie.

The next course is due to commence in early 2017.

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Climate change and some possible impacts on aquaculture and sea fisheries Benen Dallaghan, BIM

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he recent climate conference in Paris has highlighted the urgent need for research into climate change and its potential impact on mankind.

Although there is some debate concerning climate change, in general, most scientific opinion appears to indicate that global temperatures are rising and that this increase is largely due to human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation. An analysis of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), which is the main greenhouse gas, and global temperature data over the past 1 million years demonstrates that, as CO2 increases in the atmosphere, there is a corresponding global temperature rise. Most predictions show that atmospheric CO2, which is at historically high levels, is set to keep rising for the coming decades and this will almost certainly lead to further global temperature rise. This warmer world scenario will lead to changes in climate and weather patterns across the earth’s surface which will impact on all human activities and especially on farming, forestry, aquaculture and sea fishing industries where living natural

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12,000 year ago the majority of Ireland was covered in ice. Photo iStockPhoto

resources respond directly to changes in oceanic and climatic conditions.

What could all this mean for the marine environment and particularly for the Irish aquaculture and sea fishery industries?

RISING SEA TEMPERATURE Rising sea temperature will have an impact on all sea creatures. It is likely that there will be a net loss of biodiversity in marine habitats as most aquatic species will not have enough time to adapt to rapid climate change. In Ireland many marine organisms will be directly impacted by rising sea temperatures and changes in ocean currents.

Atlantic salmon in Ireland, for example, are at the southern end of their geographical range. An increase in sea temperature could mean that the distribution map for salmon and other 'cold water' fish such as cod and lemon sole could move further north and possibly away from Ireland altogether.

Already there has been a well documented distribution shift associated with maceral stocks. Sandeel, which play an important role in marine ecosystems, are thought to be particularly vulnerable to increased sea temperatures and this, coupled with the fact that they rely on specific habitat type, means that sandeel species have little room for manover from an

adaptive point of view.

Warmer seas will favor some species. It is likely that, in Irish waters, we will encounter more abundance for species such as seabass, red mullet, anchovy, boarfish, bluefin tuna, triggerfish and ocean sunfish for example.

Warmer seas could also favour the spread of 'Invasive Alien species'. Species such as the slipper limpet, which compete with native shellfish, are thought to be at an advantage in a warmer water scenario. As invasive organisms increase and adapt their geographical range, this will, more than likely, lead to significant ecological displacement where native stocks find it difficult to compete with the invaders: Warmer water could also lead to the disruption to fish spawning patterns and the increased possibility of algae related bio-toxin problems.

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

Blue mussel - shell formation and recruitment could potentially be compromised with increased ocean acidification.

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This is a phenomenon whereby the oceans are becoming more acidic as a result of elevated levels of CO2 in the earths atmosphere. More atmospheric CO2 means that more CO2 dissolves into the

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seas thus increasing the acidity of seawater (PH values are reduced indicating more acidity). This change in water chemistry can make it difficult for shellfish to lay down shell; a process called calcification. It can also have negative consequences for finfish. Organisms likely to be affected by increased water acidity would include molluscs such as mussel, oysters, whelk and crustaceans such as lobster, shrimp and prawn. There is already some evidence of significant life cycle disruption for American shellfish as a result of increased acidification in the marine environment.

CHANGES IN OCEANIC CURRENTS Ireland is situated over 51 degrees north of the equator and enjoys relatively mild winters. This is because of the heating effect of a warm ocean current called the North Atlantic Drift which forms part of the Gulf Stream, a current that originates in warm waters off Florida.

Anything that changes these currents will have a direct impact on Ireland’s sea life.

One global warming scenario shows the North Atlantic Drift shutting down. In this

In water, as temperature goes up, oxygen levels decrease and this isn’t good news for wild salmon.

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Species shift - could a warmer Ireland be better for this species of Trigger fish?

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scenario, Ireland would generally experience much colder conditions despite the trend for increasing temperatures globally.

Many of our finfish and shellfish species undergo a free floating or planktonic juvenile stage in their life cycles. Picture a scenario where the planktonic larvae of a mussel, scallop or lobster are being moved faster and farther through the water column because of stronger water flow. In this case, there is a likelyhood that the larvae in question would settle further away from their origin, further then they would have otherwise done.

This would impact the geographic distribution of various species in our waters.

INCREASED SEVERITY AND FREQUENCY OF STORMS AND CHANGES TO SEASONALITY. Operating fishing vessels and managing aquaculture sites is made more difficult in storms and serves to increase production costs. It would seem, anecdotally anyway, that 1 in 50 year storms are now occurring more frequently than every 50 years and this observation is considered by many to be climate change in action.

Imagine a scenario whereby there is a marine habitat suitable for the spawning of herring and the settlement of blue mussel larvae. Massive storms can simply wash these habitats away thereby changing the general species distribution and prevailing ecological patterns: Heavy and persistent rainfall events

can have the effect of decreasing salinity in estuarine environments thereby putting many marine species such as mussel, oyster and scallop under stress. Changes in seasonality also impacts the distribution of wild fish bringing about changes in stock patterns and affecting fishing activity while also impacting aquaculture growth patterns e.g. the term 'degree days' for salmon spawning in hatcheries reflects the fact that embryonic fish stages develop at a rate determined by temperature and time.

Changes in the seasons will result in fishermen and aquaculture companies having to change their operational procedures, something which is costly and often difficult to do within the regulatory context.

SEA LEVEL CHANGE Global sea levels are set to rise as polar ice retreats. This increase is made worse by the fact that water expands as it warms up. An additional complicating factor is that a given land mass could be either rising or falling as the techtonic plates on which countries and continents sit , move up and down. At the lower end of the scale, at first glance, it would seem that a minor increase in sea level to the order of centimetres would not have much of an impact on our ecosystems.

However, even a small sea level rise combined with more severe storm activity could compound the situation leading to more

dramatic storm surges and flooding events. These events could change the character of inshore coastal areas which are especially important for the recruitment of many commercial fish and shellfish species. Sea level rise of 1 metre and above will have serious consequences for Irish coastal towns and villages aswellas our inshore marine ecosystems.

It's hard to predict the scale of human driven climate change. Global temperatures have fluctuated since the beginning of time but the difference today is that human activities are driving climate change. The rapid acceleration of this change is a major cause for concern.

Changes in atmospheric CO2 over the past million years were slow when compared to the changes we are seeing today. From an ecological point of view it would appear that there will be a net loss of species richness in most sea habitats as a result of global warming. This is mainly due to the fact that most species will fail to adapt to the rapid global environmental changes predicted within climate change scenarios.

Efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change really boil down to societies living and also businesses operating in a sustainable way while working towards the spirit of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Everyone has a role to play and for the seafood sector in Ireland, signing up for sustainability programs such as BIMs suite of eco and organic standards for aquaculture, fisheries and the processing sectors and Bord Bias Origin Green programme is a responsible step in the direction of achieving sustainability.

Adopting sustainable business models makes sense at many levels and will serve to prepare our seafood sector for a changing future.

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Investing in Irish aquaculture and fishing – telling it like it is!

Art Kavanagh, Marine Finance Consultant

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ne of my favourite heroes from literature is the little boy in the Hans Christian Anderson tale The Emperor’s New Clothes who tells it like he sees it and demonstrates that clarity is indeed a great gift. Clarity allows things to happen and it brings a welcome dose of reality to what previously may be just aspirational hot air. When I examine the ambitious plans from BIM, Food Harvest 2020 and other state-sponsored initiatives I see the emphasis that is laid on the value of Ireland’s seafood sector in the general financial recovery plan. FAO statistics also show me that the demand for seafood can never be satisfied by the wild capture sector, and that the role of aquaculture, as a means of supplying seafood product increases in importance every year.

So let’s look at the overall vista from a business opportunity perspective.

Market demand for seafood product worldwide is huge and growing; industry expertise is clearly evident; and our coastal waters are noted for their purity and productivity. When it comes to aquaculture potential therefore, Ireland ticks all the boxes. The problem is however that we still don’t have the licences to allow the sector to develop as it should.

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Given the recent reintroduction of a points system that punishes skippers for even trivial offences I question whether there is real political commitment to our seafood sector - at any level. We

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appear to adopt an a la carte approach to the European rules which our regulators claim to be following . In discussion with our European peers we learn that the rules employed in governing the Irish seafood sector are a significantly enhanced version of the basic rules as read by everyone else. There has been a difficulty over the years using aquaculture licences to secure bank borrowings. That has been overcome - as a concept at least - so what the banks need now is clarity of the tenure and duration of licences. In Norway where the aquaculture sector has been encouraged to flourish licences are highly prized possessions - as they should be - for those who have had the foresight and the financial means to develop their sites and output.

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CLARITY I have no doubt that international investment funds are readily available for Irish aquaculture, but only when more certainty is brought to the licensing system. It will take us more time to convince Irish lenders of the potential in the sector but as they look at it they will quickly see that it does not have wholehearted government support. Looking at the overall management of the seafood sector from the outside there is more evidence of over-regulation than in any other foodproducing sector. Investors and lenders into any sector need clarity on the rules which govern those sectors.

In most sectors there are clear rules which can be used to assess how the sector might perform and what risks need to be examined by those thinking of investing or lending. Uncertainty in the licence system is certainly an issue which, unless it changes, will continue to present a huge obstacle to the raising of finance for the development of the sector.

SUSPICION It is an unfortunate aspect of the Irish psyche that our immediate reaction to treat an excellent opportunity with suspicion and introduce rules which are more likely to discourage the investor than encourage them. Has there ever been an application for an aquaculture licence which has not provoked objections?

The reintroduction of the points system for the fishing fleet is hard to accept given that the highest court in the land ruled in February 2016 that the system should be set aside. However, the High Court’s decision was simply dismissed at the stroke of the minister’s pen. It is such a shame that the same pen could not be used more often in a positive way!

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We are talking the talk on the seafood sector but we need now to start walking the walk at national level. Let’s not claim to be interested if all of our actions are to do the opposite. If we can’t do that let’s do the decent thing and admit that we really don’t care! Let’s not claim that Ireland is a good place in which to do business unless

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we are prepared to back it up with positive action.

As a financial advisor who meets regularly with potential investors my difficulty is twofold: trying to convince them that there is good business to be done here, and trying to explain overly complicated rule changes that appear not to favour our aquaculturists and fishermen. The € 240 million announced during 2015 for the development of the seafood industry actually targeted control and monitoring activities and so does not engender confidence. It gives a view justified or not - of where the priorities lie. In conversation recetly with a seafood industry leader he compared the situation to the aspiration of making our local football team the best in the county by encouraging them to train hard, while not allowing them to use actual footballs to train with!

I firmly believe that action, not aspiration, makes things happen and that nobody knows the seafood sector better than those directly involved in it. Let’s not forget that the hurler on the ditch never actually scores, he just makes lots of noise!

Art Kavanagh, Marine Finance Advisor Killybegs, Co Donegal 074 973 2915 087 677 44 55 artokavanagh@gmail.com

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Focus on Seafood: Northern Ireland Dr Lynn Gilmore, Seafish Northern Ireland Seafish Northern Ireland work across the seafood supply chain with everyone from fishermen to aquaculture producers and fishmongers to seafood restauranteurs. Our mission is to support a profitable, sustainable and socially responsible future for the seafood industry.

One of our ongoing initiatives is to develop a series of case studies on key seafood businesses in Northern Ireland and to date twenty have been developed. This is one of a series of ideas aimed at creating a suite of tools designed to allow industry to promote their businesses and the quality of seafood produced in Northern Ireland. A local seafood cookery booklet and a suite of films featuring the Northern Irish industry (available on the Seafish YouTube Channel) are other examples. This article features three local seafood businesses at the heart of the Northern Irish seafood industry.

The Northern Ireland Fish Producers Organisation

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he Northern Ireland Fish Producers Organisation Ltd (NIFPO) was formed in 1975.

Their headquarters are located in the old Coastguard Cottages in Portavogie and here Dick James, the Chief Executive, has an office overlooking the harbour.

NIFPO today has approximately 150 member vessels predominately based in Northern Ireland's fishing ports of Portavogie, Ardglass, Annalong and Kilkeel as well as at other ports throughout the UK and Ireland.

Members' vessels range in size from 7m potters targeting crab and lobster to vessels of over 24m in length who circumnavigate the island of Ireland in their seasonal hunt for oily fish such as mackerel and herring. The mainstay of the Northern Irish fleet are the trawlers which target Nephrops (also known as prawns, scampi and langoustine) and a range of

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other species including round-fish like haddock and cod, flatfish such as turbot and brill and other less wellknown species like gurnard and John Dory. NIFPO is a diverse business providing a range of services to members, the most important service of which is managing fish quota for 120 member vessels.

NIFPO is one of the few Producers Organisations in the UK that still operates a 'Pool' quota management system for most of their members. This means that they own quota and this enables NIFPO to set monthly catch limits allowing vessels to operate in the main without the need for leasing in additional quota at significant cost to the vessel.

Other services NIFPO

provide for members includes assistance with Vessel Registration and Licensing, Grant Funding Applications and Fisheries Management representation at Local, National and European level. NIFPO also provide Guard Vessels and Fishery Liaison Officers to the offshore sector through their Offshore Services

division.

Members and nonmembers of NIFPO as well as the general public all avail of the services provided by the NIFPO Marine Chandlery Stores located on the quaysides of Portavogie, Ardglass and Kilkeel.

These traditional stores are a natural meeting place for fishermen and stock a dazzling array of paints, shackles, waterproof clothing and a myriad of other useful things. A visit is a must on a day out in one of Northern Ireland’s fishing ports!

For more information about NIFPO: NIFPO 1 Coastguard Cottages, Portavogie, Co. Down BT22 1EA T: +44 (0) 28 4277 1946/1954 F: +44 (0) 28 4277 1696 E: nifpo@btconnect.com W: www.nifpo.co.uk

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The Mourne Seafood Bar

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ob McCoubrey is a marine biologist by trade and first became involved in the seafood industry when he started an oyster farm in Carlingford Lough in 1987. In the early days the oysters produced were exported to France, but in 2005 Bob and his wife Joanne decided to market their product closer to home and opened the first Mourne Seafood Bar in Dundrum, Co. Down in their home.

The success of the Dundrum restaurant encouraged Bob and Joanne (pictured) to expand. They had met dynamic local chef, Andy Rea who having worked in some of the best restaurants in the world, loved the concept of the Dundrum Mourne Seafood Bar and shared their passion for seafood. A partnership was born and together they got to work in developing the idea of a seafood restaurant in Belfast where peace had encouraged the development of a vibrant restaurant scene and an appetite for local products and seafood.

Working with Andy they found a premises in Bank Street and got to work on creating the restaurant. The chance discovery of an oyster midden under the old floor and local stories of the

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Joanne and Bob McCoubrey’s restaurant has a fishmonger’s counter and incorporates the Belfast Cookery School where regular classes introduce seafood cookery to a wide variety of participants

Fadgies, Irish speakers from Omeath who sold oysters and herring in nearby Smithfield in the 19th Century were perhaps good omens for what was to come.

The Belfast restaurant has been hugely successful and is popular with locals and tourists alike. It has been expanded and now includes a fishmonger's counter and

incorporates the Belfast Cookery School where regular seafood cookery classes introduce seafood cookery skills to a wide range of participants.

Funding from Seafish enabled 900 mums and young people from across Northern Ireland to attend classes in the School and learn about seafood preparation and cookery, sustainability and the importance of seafood in a healthy, balanced diet.

From there the business has expanded to now include four restaurants and the team have recently published the Mourne Seafood Bar Cookbook with accompanying seafood preparation videos, filmed

in partnership with Seafish and the Fish is the Dish campaign which are available on YouTube.

Joanne, Bob and Andy are great supporters of the local industry sourcing around £10,000 worth of fish a week from the local fishing ports of Co. Down. The ethos of Mourne Seafood is to use sustainably sourced, local wild caught and farmed seafood at reasonable prices to allow everyone to experience and enjoy the fantastic seafood which is available in Northern Ireland.

For more information about the Mourne Seafood Bar and for table reservations: Belfast: 34-36 Bank Street T: +44 (0) 28 9024 8544 Dundrum: Main Street T: +44 (0) 28 4375 1377 W: www.mourneseafood.com

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Henning Brothers Fishing Company Limited technology, which ensures all the valuable meat is removed from brown crabs.

This process gives the maximum economic return for each crab processed and is also important for longterm stock sustainability.

Even empty scallop shells are used by Henning Bros.

After the meat is removed, shells are sent to China for cleaning and then sold to catering companies as containers for all sorts of readymade seafood dishes.

This ethos of making best use of resources is typical of how fishing communities have adapted to changing times - in the past, these scallop shells would have been crushed and put into lime mortar used when building the oldest houses that still stand in Kilkeel.

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enning Brothers Fishing Company Limited is a family business established in 1979.

Harold, John and Richard Henning started off working in the catching sector, and invested in the fishing vessel the 'Forethought'. From here, the company quickly expanded to owning four fishing boats.

In 2001, the family decided to change tack and diversify into seafood processing.

Having sold their boats, the capital was used to develop a purpose-built shellfish processing plant in Kilkeel, at the heart of the local seafood industry.

As well as processing, Henning Bros have also diversified into aquaculture and run a successful oyster farming operation in Carlingford Lough. Owning ????

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and running this operation ensures a continuity of supply of top quality shellfish to customers.

The company prides itself on being able to offer top quality live and processed shellfish landed into Kilkeel Harbour and harvested from mussel and oyster aquaculture sites nearby in Carlingford Lough. Lobster, crab, whelks, shrimps, oysters and mussels are exported live and white crab meat, crab claws and King and Queen scallops are processed at the Henning Bros factory immediately after landing and shipped to customers across the UK and Europe. Investment in stateof-the-art equipment has been a key feature in the development of Henning Bros business. Henning Bros

can hold live shellfish at their processing facility in specially designed tanks that meet the highest EC approval ratings for shellfish holding.

The company also recently invested in state-of-the-art

For more information about Henning Brothers Fishing Company Limited: Henning Brothers Fishing Company Limited The Harbour, Kilkeel, Co. Down BT34 4AX T: +44 (0) 28 4176 2335 F: +44 (0) 28 4176 2335 M: +44 (0) 7808 812 188 or +44 (0) 7921 865 833 E: info@henningfish.co.uk W: www.henningfish.com

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JFC Marine Superior Performance Mussel Floats Colin Concannon, Marine Sales Manager at JFC Marine

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ith over 29 years experience in the plastic moulding industry, JFC specialise in providing quality rotationally moulded plastic products. We offer a complete range of Mussel floats, Navigation buoys, Navigation beacons, monitoring and control systems to suit all marine applications.

JFC is delighted to introduce the launch of the MF330 Mussel Float - a new blow moulded manufactured mussel float.

This superior performance mussel float is designed and manufactured for the most demanding conditions. Ideal for inshore and offshore locations, they have been proven in the most exposed conditions of the Atlantic Ocean, and can significantly

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improve the profitability of mussel farming enterprises.

The float has been specifically designed to withstand the pressures of high waves and sit steadily on the water, even when loaded with a full crop of mussels. The patented stability fin design ensures that our floats have a low profile in the water, causing limited vertical motion and reduced stress on the mussels. Consequently this “reduced stress” on the mussels means they can concentrate on growing as opposed to expending their energy on trying to remain attached to the rope during turbulent conditions.

IMPROVED PERFORMANCE The design ensures tha the

mussel holding lines do not brush “up and down” so preventing the crop from falling back into the sea.

The end result is that mussels grown using JFC mussel floats, grow larger, have a higher meat quality, and are much less susceptible to losses. All of these factors culminate in significantly increased yields over a shorter time period for the mussel farmer. JFC mussel floats have the potential to substantially boost the profitability of the ropemussel industry whilst simultaneously reducing the number of mussel floats required per site.

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Gael Force Group strengthens aquaculture commitment

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he Gael Force name is already synonymous with mooring systems and the company has a strong track record in the aquaculture market having worked closely with the industry to build up a relationship with fish farm operators throughout Scotland and Ireland.

Moving forward they have developed a new, bespoke mooring system, conceived and designed to deliver higher security for lower cost.

The SeaQureMoor system offers higher performance, longer life and lower system maintenance for a given weight in key components.

Handling and logistics costs are reduced as are deployment costs due to lower weight-to-performance and SeaQureMoor’s ability to be pre-assembled and therefore rapidly deployed.

The system comprises six components at the heart of which is the SeaQureLink; designed for use with rope, slings or chain using SeaQureFast fibre connectors and SeaQureFlex bridles. SeaQureLink provides critical ballast for the system with ease of deployment and in-service management is maintenance free and has an extremely high break load and long life.

SeaQureHold is a super high holding power anchor, fast setting and less than half the weight of equivalent, conventional anchors for a given holding power. The mooring buoys, SeaQureBuoys, with pretensioned high strength lifting chain give

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progressively increasing buoyancy, can house lights or other fittings, and have no metal-to-metal moving parts thus reducing maintenance and buoy losses.

SeaQureLine 8-strand and 3-strand ropes provide a higher strength-to-weight ratio than conventional synthetic ropes, high Thousand Cycle Load Levels and superior abrasion resistance. SeaQureLine’s breaking strengths allow a

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smaller size of rope to be used for a given break load.

This means smaller sizing of other mooring components and results in lower system costs.

The first grid system using the SeaQureLink mooring node was deployed at Loch Duart’s sea water farm site in Sutherland. The system was pre-rigged and assembled beforehand by Gael Force’s team of experienced riggers in Inverness. Once ready, it was

then loaded into a container and shipped to Loch Duart’s site in the North West of Scotland.

The 2 x 5 cage system was installed by Colin Bell of Seahorse Aquaculture.

Owner and skipper of the MV Nitrox, the vessel used in the installation, Colin has many years experience in laying grid systems, and said he was impressed with how quick and easy the deployment went. He praised how easy and quick it was to install, saying; ‘It was a very straight forward process. As it was delivered in a container beforehand, we lifted the whole system onto the Nitrox. Once on site, the grid was laid out on the deck, connected to the first set of anchors and from then took just 30 minutes to lay the initial system.’

Gael Force will have the complete range of SeaQureMoor components on display at the Aquaculture UK exhibition in Aviemore this May.

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Global resources behind a local focus - PHARMAQ and ZOETIS T

he last six months have seen a number of highly significant developments at PHARMAQ both in terms of product development and, not least, their ownership!

In November of last year it was announced that PHARMAQ’s owners, the private equity company Permira, had sold PHARMAQ AS to US-based Zoetis, the largest animal health company in the world.

The acquisition was based upon Zoetis’ analysis of the contribution that PHARMAQ could make to its business.

In this case Zoetis saw that, as the global leader in vaccines and innovative solutions for aquatic health, PHARMAQ was a ‘must have’ to strengthen its portfolio of livestock products. And from PHARMAQ’s viewpoint

L to R: Morten Nordstad, CEO of PHARMAQ AS and Alejandro Bernal, the Executive Vice President of Zoetis.

Zoetis brings to the table a wealth of experience and resources both in terms of market access as well as R&D. Zoetis was especially drawn to PHARMAQ’s ‘near market’ products as well as those in an advanced stage of development, something which has been highlighted

in another recent development.

In December 2015 PHARMAQ was granted a Marketing Authorisation (MA) in the UK and Ireland for a new mono-valent micro dose vaccine to protect Atlantic salmon against the Salmonid

alphavirus (SAV), the causative agent of salmon pancreas disease.

In March of this year the Controller of Patents in Ireland granted a Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) to Intervet (now trading as MSD Animal Health) potentially influencing the commercial supply of vaccines against pancreas disease and, if not challenged, will remain in force until May 5th 2020.

Although disappointed by this outcome, PHARMAQ have assured Aquaculture Ireland that it will not deter them from their continued commitment to Irish aquaculture through the provision of products and services that support health and welfare for a sustainable and profitable Irish salmon farming Industry.

we make aquaculture progress For more information visit our website or contact your veterinarian.

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Gaeltacht companies continue to introduce new products and innovations and see growth in new markets Siubhán Nic Grianna*, Údarás na Gaeltachta

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darás na Gaeltachta is concentrating its efforts on supporting seafood and other marinebased enterprises to add value to their products, improve production processes, seek out new markets and focus on moving what are often regarded as ‘traditional’ products further up the value chain. As a result, some marine-based enterprises in the Gaeltacht are becoming more competitive, developing new products and entering new export markets.

Proiseáil (An Clochán Liath) Teoranta trading as Irish Fish Canners is one such company. Established since 1977 by the Bonner family, Irish Fish Canners is the only fish canning company in Ireland. The company has now evolved into a major canned seafood provider to a number of leading global brands, including John West.

Irish Fish Canners recently took part in a Lean Transformation Programme, rolled out by Údarás na Gaeltachta. "We were one of the first industries in the Donegal Gaeltacht to take part in this programme. The fish business for many years was seasonal, but we are now operational all year round. The Lean Transformation Programme allowed us to identify how we as a business could become more competitive, more waste efficient, and

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how we could identify new markets. As a result, we have added value to our core business. We are producing new products and we recently won contracts in Australia, Japan, Jamaica and Holland. Last year we launched our own brand, introducing three new tinned mackerel products to the Irish market and these are currently on sale in SuperValu stores,” says Karl Bonner, Business Development Director.

The Bonner family now employ 35 people fulltime and the company has plans under way to export their own brand products to countries around the world.

“The decision to create our ‘own brand’ range is one that is driven by many changes in the canned fish market and will make the our products more competitive and accessible.

Our objective is to ensure the longevity and sustainability of our business for future generations of our community here in the Donegal Gaeltacht”, says Karl Bonner.

Abalone Chonamara Teo, based in Ros an Mhíl, Co Galway, is also in the process of bringing new products to market. Abalone Chonamara has been cultivating abalone, a highly-prized shellfish delicacy, since 2000. The company specialises in growing the premium Japanese species known as Ezo (Haliotis

Karl Bonner, Acting Managing Director and Business Development Executive with Irish Fish Canners at the launch of the company’s new own brand products

discus hannai) and exporting to the UK, and Asian markets. Last year, with support from Údarás na Gaeltachta, the company began developing its own abalone-based product range. Cindy O’Brien, Managing Director of Abalone Chonamara, said “We saw a potential market for abalone products and set about producing a range of canned soups using abalone as the main ingredient.

Market trials went very well and the company is now focusing on scaling production. Initially we developed the high value, premium canned soup products for the Asian market, and then the company also established demand from the Chinese market in the United Kingdom”.

Cindy went on to explain that the company has now refocused its business model. “Not only are we a company that cultivates and

supplies live abalone for the UK and Asian markets, but we are now also producing and supplying our own abalone products to those same markets. Before this, our business was very seasonal. This new venture increases our offering, removes the risk that comes with selling and shipping live shellfish to overseas markets and extends our seasonality”, she said.

As the demand for the use of seaweed as a raw material continues to gain popularity, there is increased potential for seaweed-based products in the health food, animal health and plant care markets.

Feamainn Orgánach Chonamara Teo, based in Ros an Mhíl, Connemara was founded by local entrepreneur Noel Lee and is capitalising on this demand, with support from Údarás na Gaeltachta. The company produces a range of locally sourced seaweed

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Seaweed harvesters (l-r): StiofĂĄn Seoige; PĂĄdraig Ă“ Conghaile; CiarĂĄn Lee with Noel Lee, Director of Feamainn OrgĂĄnach Chonamara Teo

by Galway company Food 360 and we are delighted to say that our products will be launched in the London market in the UK later this year. We recently partnered with the Dutch company, Seamore, to bring sea

products and commenced trading early in 2015. “We began by supplying the Irish retail market with a range of products that include Carrageen, Sweet Kelp, Dilisk and Kombu Kelp.

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our Norwegian research institutions, two outside Norway and several industry partners from technology and the aquaculture industry have started operations at a centre for innovation in closed-containment systems.

The centre, CtrlAQUA, has been given NOK 200 million and eight years to reach its goal of making closed-containment systems for salmon up to one kilogram.

Innovations in closed-containment, where the salmon is separated from the outside environment by a tight barrier, can be important for the further development of the industry,

helping to address challenges such as sea lice, diseases and escapes, as well as reduce production times.

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use less energy adapting to it. This means that the salmon has more energy available for growth and good health.’ Closed systems for strategic phases in salmon farming can help to make the Norwegian vision of an eight-fold growth in value creation from aquaculture possible, and lead to an increased number of jobs and the production of healthy seafood.

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The primary goal of the SFI programme is to strengthen companies’ capacity for innovation, and to develop leading industry relevant research.

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Industrial partners from the supplier industry are KrĂźger Kaldnes AS, Pharmaq Analytiq, Pharmaq AS, Oslofjord Ressurspark AS, Storvik Aqua AS and Aquafarm Equipment AS. Participants from the aquaculture industry DUH 0DULQH +DUYHVW $6$ *ULHJ 6HDIRRG $6$ Lerøy Vest AS, Cermaq Norway AS, Bremnes 6HDVKRUH $6 6PÂĄOD NOHNNHUL RJ VHWWHĂ€ VNDQOHJJ AS, Marine producers Norway AS and Firda sjøfarmer AS. The formal opening by the Research Council WRRN SODFH DW WKH HQG RI 0D\ DW 1RĂ€ PD 6XQ QGDOVÂĄUD 1RUZHJLDQ Ă€ VKHULHV PLQLVWHU (OLVDEHWK Aspaker, present at the ceremony, said the goal of the CtrlAQUA SFI is perfectly compatible with the government’s ambitions for the aquaculture industry. ‘I have great expectations for the achievements of CtrlAQUA. Even though eight years LV D ORQJ WLPH LW LV XUJHQW WKDW ZH Ă€ QG VROXWLRQV to reach the goals. CtrlAQUA is an important part of this.’ The director of innovation in the Research Council, Eirik Normann, presented the SFI plaque to Fyhn Terjesen, saying: ‘You have put together a very strong consortium. I want to point out that the committee that evaluated the application was fascinated by the innovation that the concept brings with it, and it believes that the centre will probably produce important innovations within aquaculture.’ FF

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NOFIMA FACTS With 360 employees and customers from 49 different countries, Nofima’s turnover in 2014 was ÂŁ527 million dŚĞ Ä?ŽžƉĂŜLJ Ĺ?Ć? Ä?ĆľĆŒĆŒÄžĹśĆšĹŻÇ‡ ĞŜĹ?Ä‚Ĺ?ĞĚ Ĺ?Ĺś ϲώϏ Ć‰ĆŒĹ˝ĹŠÄžÄ?ĆšĆ? Ç Ĺ˝ĆŒĹŻÄšÇ Ĺ?ĚĞ͘ Nofima has several laboratories and pilot plants, which it uses for research, including: BioLab – an accredited contract and research laboratory; NAMAB – a flexible minifactory; and Patogen Pilot Plant – Europe’s first highsecurity production hall.

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CH Marine - The solution in Marine Equipment and Safety Supply

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H Marine has 40 years of experience and currently carries 150 top brands and a 30,000 item range which effectively means that, as you have probably guessed, CH Marine is able to supply the entire marine industry with a vast range of products.

The company, which was founded in 1970, has its headquarters in Skibbereen, Co. Cork with outlets in Cork City, Kilkeel, Newry and Newtonards.

The Safety at Sea side of the business has also become extremely important, and a considerable sector of the company’s turnover is now derived from the servicing of safety equipment and the hiring of liferafts. CH Marine operates two service stations in the country and holds approvals to service the most popular brands of life jacket along with Viking and Youlong Liferafts.

CH Marine (NI) Ltd, a subsidiary of the CH Marine Group, extends the line-up with their RFD and DSB

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Liferaft brands.

The Skibbereen Service Centre is also qualified as a Shore Based Maintenance (SBM) facility which covers the maintenance of all GMDSS equipment. This includes the servicing and programming of EPIRBs, PLBs and AIS. In this section, CH Marine is a distributor for McMurdo Marine, a world leader in Beacon Technology.

CH Marine CEO Nick Bendon says that the company focusses heavily

on customer service, technical support and large and comprehensive stock holdings. He adds that they continue to look at their systems of operation scientifically and invest considerably in IT Systems to help manage their considerable inventory and customer base.

An example of CH Marine’s determination to be innovative can be seen in the way they developed their own dedicated safety asset management system

SAMS. SAMS is a cloud based program set up to manage and monitor the Next Service Due date, Expiry date and Service records of any serviceable safety item.

Customers have access to an online portal through which they can easily follow the status of all their registered safety equipment.

Notifications or service and expiry dates are sent by email and texts to clients helping them to ensure equipment is always current.

In terms of marine equipment, CH Marine’s focus has always been to seek and represent the top brands in every sector. This is very evident from the assembly of world class brands they now hold, and they have been very successful on this front.

Brands include Jabsco & Rule Pumps, Victron, Mastervolt, Bluesea Systems, Power Management, Pains Wessex and Comet Pyrotechnics. In the more basic chandlery items they distribute for MG Duff

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Gem Plastics was founded in 1988 in Cavan, Ireland as a division of the lubricants distribution company Gem Oils, which was established in 1962.

Since then, Gem Plastics has developed and expanded its range of blow moulded HDPE Drums, Jerricans, associated services and customer portfolio, supplying fillers - mainly those in the chemicals, pharmaceuticals and food and beverage industries - throughout the British Isles, including some of the world’s leading multi-national players in these sectors.

The vast majority of Gem’s containers have UN packaging performance certificates, approved for the international Transport of Dangerous Goods. Additionally, they are made in conformance with ISO 9001 and ISO 22000 for packaging suppliers within the food supply chain.

Gem Plastics remains a family owned company with inherent traditional values centered on upholding the highest standards in everything it does. The business is led by an experienced management team who, along with a loyal and dedicated workforce, places customer’s needs at the forefront of its everyday activities.

Equally, it maintains an avid R&D focus in key areas such as raw materials, processes, products and customer service.

anodes, Polyform of Norway for Buoys and Fenders and Guy Cotton France for Oilskins.

CH Marine certainly lives up to its reputation as a one stop solution for the marine industry, and the recent addition of the independent

review system, Feefo to their website always guarantees a 5-star customer service.

For more visit the company website at www.chmarine.com or contact CH Marine on 021- 4315700 or e-mail sales@chmarine.com

MUSSEL FLOAT Alongside its mainstream industrial packaging activities, Gem Plastics manufactures other blow moulded articles for industrial and consumer applications.

Prominent amongst these items, is its innovative Mussel Float that was developed in collaboration with the Irish Mussel Farmers and Bord lascaigh Mhara - The Irish Fisheries Board, for use in the cultivation and harvesting of mussels. Its novel and useful functionality resulted in Gem being granted a full European patent for the product in 2008.

The float is made in three sizes by the extrusion blow moulding process, using high-density polyethylene (HDPE) giving it strength and guaranteeing a long working life. Coloured ‘Battleship Grey’ helps it blend in caringly with its natural surrounding environment.

All the materials used in the manufacture of the float have been authorised for use contact with foodstuffs.

MUSSEL FLOAT The Gem Mussel Float was designed with the purpose of playing a pivotal role in the cultivation of mussel spat on ropes suspended from twin anchorage points on the float, positioned top and bottom.

A special valve is fitted to allow air pressurisation before and during use. This feature ensures that both shape and buoyancy are preserved in all marine conditions. Compared to the method of dredging mussels from the seabed, the Gem float offers a number of distinct advantages.

ADVANTAGES OF GEM FLOATS • 3 different Types (300 Litre,200 litre ,100litre Sub-merged) • High strength handles for optimum usage.

• Manufactured from 100% Virgin polyethylene.

• Non-Toxic.

• High Performance floats for all types of inshore & offshore farming conditions.

• Long operational life with no maintenance.

• Easy clean surface.

• Special valve fitted to allow air pressurisation before and during use.

• Excellent value on return of capital.

• Stackable easy to handle

Gem Plastics Ltd, Regaskin, Cavan, Ireland Phone: 00353494331077 Email: sales@gemplastics.ie

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Sanitary Surveys and the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority

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reland’s reputation for producing and exporting shellfish of the highest quality continues to grow as the number of European and Third Countries markets where Irish products can be found reflects.

Confidence in the quality and safety of Irish seafood is integral to the continued expansion of the sector. The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority’s (SFPA) Sanitary Survey programme is making an important contribution, helping to sustain that confidence and provide the assurance that customers require. The SFPA’s programme, which is required under EU legislation, focuses on Classified shellfish Production Areas (CPAs) around Ireland. It will follow a cyclical format with reviews being conducted after the initial surveys are completed. An individual Sanitary Survey is undertaken of each area in a process defined under EURL Guidelines that involves identifying and quantifying the sources of microbiological contaminants. Catchments of the classified area are characterised and representative monitoring points are identified. Controls are based on proxy indicators of risk as it is not possible to test for every potential or actual hazard associated with shellfish contamination.

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COLI CONTAMINATION The control organism tested for in shellfish is E.coli. Contamination can arise from a variety of sources including domestic and industrial discharges, wildlife aggregations, agriculture and shipping. The potential impact of discharges of contaminants will be affected by a variety of biotic and abiotic factors determined in the Sanitary Survey. Sanitary Survey reports will be as comprehensive as possible. The SFPA welcomes the involvement of shellfish producers and encourage any shellfish farmer who may have relevant information to contact the sea-food safety team on sfpafoodsafety@sfpa.ie. At the outset of each Sanitary Survey, staff from the

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Figure 1. Map showing the numbered positions referring to shoreline survey information gathered, length of shoreline walked during shoreline survey and location of some of the possible microbial contributory factors at a classified shellfish production area. More information on classification of shellfish production areas can be found at http://www.sfpa.ie/SeafoodSafety/Shellfish.aspx and on Sanitary Surveys in the guidance document Code of Practice for the Microbiological Monitoring of Bivalve Mollusc Production Areas located at http://www.sfpa.ie/SeafoodSafety/Shellfish/GuidanceDocuments.aspx

SFPA’s Seafood Safety Unit make an inventory of pollution sources of human/animal origin likely to be a source of microbial contamination for the relevant CPA from point and diffuse sources. They then examine quantities of organic pollutants released during different periods of the year, including their variances, from

both human and animal populations within the catchment area. This involves the sourcing, utilisation and analysis of data from over 30 different databases from a variety of organisations including the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine; the Central Statistics Office; the Environmental Protection Agency,

Table 1. Shellfish Classification based on E. coli monitoring Category

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Must be relayed for 2 months to meet class A or B requirements or may also be heat treated

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examination of the data gathered during the sanitary survey and a number of samples. The results of this sampling program are for classification monitoring purposes only. The onus is still on the shellfish producer to ensure that any shellfish produced in classified areas and sold for human consumption is safe for human consumption, according to the relevant legislation.

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ASSESMENT The catchment of each production area differs. A pollution event in one location could severely impact a classified area while a pollution event of the same size and type in another area might have no impact.

Characterisation of each catchment and the processes within it will enable the determination of the risk and severity of possible microbial impacts. The Sanitary Survey process is akin to a risk assessment. As Sanitary Surveys are completed, they may reveal previously unknown sources of pollution or areas that need to be focused on to prevent future contamination events. The end result of each survey is a clear and concise report from the SFPAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Seafood Safety Unit that includes userfriendly maps. Mapping can be used to visualise and analyse data gathered during a shoreline survey, contributing valuable information to the Sanitary Survey (figures 1, 2 & 3).

Figure 2. Photographic evidence of potentially relevant observations made during shoreline survey.

Geological Survey of Ireland; Inland Waterways; the Marine Institute; Met Eireann; the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Ordnance Survey Ireland, and many different reports.

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PROGRAMME Everything from livestock density to temperature, rainfall data and waste-water treatment systems is examined.

Pathways in which contaminants can reach the production area and the characteristics of the circulation of pollutants are determined by virtue of typography, freshwater inputs, current patterns, bathymetry and the tidal regime in the production area. All of this information contributes to the establishment of a sampling programme of bivalve molluscs in the CPA. The sampling program consists of the assignment of a representative monitoring point(s), from which samples are taken, and the establishment of a sampling frequency.

This contributes towards ensuring that the results of any analysis are as representative as possible for the classified production area. Samples taken from the representative monitoring point within a classified production area are tested for E.coli concentrations. As classification of the CPA is based on these results, it is important that they represent the area accurately. E.coli concentrations must remain within certain specified limits depending on the classification of the area (Table 1). Classifications can change depending on these results. The location of the sample point is based on the

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Figure 3. Map showing location of observations made during shoreline survey for Sanitary Survey.

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Marine Harvest Inside Ireland’s largest producer of farmed Atlantic Salmon A

s the world’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon, Marine Harvest is uniquely placed to assess the potential of the Irish ‘Blue Economy’. Employing 11,700 people worldwide in 24 countries, the company had a turnover of almost €3billion in 2015. In early 2014, it became the first aquaculture company to take a listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

In Ireland alone, Marine Harvest Ireland (MHI) contributes over €15million to the domestic economy annually with some 800 Irish suppliers presently doing business with the company here. However and perhaps more significantly, it has a €22million investment earmarked for Ireland over the next five years, subject to new licences and renewals and improvements of existing ones. This alone, could create a further 250 direct jobs on top of the 290 strong workforce currently employed across counties Donegal, Mayo, Kerry and Cork. The single biggest issue MHI faces today is that the company cannot meet the demand for its product.

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SHOT HEAD However, there were positive signs on this front in September last when licence approval was granted for a new salmon farm at Shot Head in Bantry Bay, Co Cork.

MHI is planning an investment of €3.5million in the new facility which will create eight sustainable longterm jobs post-construction.

Nonetheless, of some concern for the company was the fact that it took four and a half years from the date of the initial application to obtain the licence.

Welcoming the Shot Head licence announcement, MHI Managing Director, Jan

Feenstra said, “This is a very positive step forward for our company and for the aquaculture industry as a whole. We are extremely keen to begin work on this site as soon as possible but have issues with some of the terms and conditions in the licence which we hope can be resolved with the Department very soon.”

“We are appealing a few small prescriptive clauses in the licence since they don’t anticipate future development and changes in technology and therefore may become restrictive some years from now. Since even the smallest change to a

licence can represent a complex and lengthy process, we wanted to raise such points from the very outset with the Aquaculture Licence Appeals Board (ALAB).”

“We currently produce approximately 75% of the 12,000 tonnes of organic farmed salmon produced in Ireland annually. Our company believes that Ireland is easily capable of increasing that output to 35,000. There is a market and the strength and diligence of the Irish regulatory system plays a role in ensuring that the consumer always gets a premium product,” concluded Mr Feenstra.

There is broad consensus that our seas are only being harnessed to a fraction of their capacity to provide food among other mooted areas of potential growth and new opportunity. The Department’s Food Wise 2025 document states, “Current FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations) estimates are that world consumption of fish will grow by an average annual consumption of 17 kg per person per

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Deenish Island Farm, Ballinskelligs Bay in Kerry

annum resulting in a requirement for an extra 40 million tonnes of seafood by 2030.”

The country boasts a coastline of between 6,000 and 7,000 long - depending on who’s measuring - which is much longer than most of our European neighbours. It opens up a 220 million acre marine resource. However, we have repeatedly looked to the land when it comes to food production without always giving adequate consideration to the vast resource and provider of food which our waters represent.

Incredibly, more than one billion people globally now rely on fish as their main source of protein. Increasing awareness of the health benefits of eating fish mean than in a time of global uncertainty, few products can boast the market growth that farmed salmon is experiencing.

IRELAND V SCOTLAND/NORWAY Ireland is one of the most strategically important locations for MHI. However, the company faces a serious challenge with the delays in the licensing system and thereby the faltering supply of product to customers is providing an opportunity for

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rival countries to import to Ireland. Incredibly, seven out of ten fish actually consumed in Europe are currently imported from outside the EU. When one looks at the system in Scotland which processes 160,000 tonnes annually and 1.2million tonnes in Norway, we in Ireland, are a long way behind producing 12,000 tonnes annually. The Scottish salmon farming sector contributed €1bn to the Scottish exchequer in 2013 with a licence taking 22 months to process compared to approximately five years here. Indeed the Faroe Isles farmed 70,000 tonnes in 2014 and it is only five times the size of Achill Island.

In spite of this, Ireland was one of Marine Harvest’s top performing locations in 2015.

Recurring biological conditions which typically arise towards the end of summer such as the presence of jellyfish, algae and the challenges which that brings, were managed effectively.

The company even took on 98 new staff here.

However, the commercial reality is that the €22million ear-marked for Irish sites cannot be put on hold forever. MHI draws some encouragement from the

commitment in Food Wise 2025 to a review of the licencing system in an attempt to resolve the backlog and logjam which has been allowed develop.

EXPORT MARKETS 88% of the fish produced by MHI is exported to France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, USA, Canada and to a lesser extent, Asia. Last year, the company generated total sales of €72.2million in Ireland from operations situated at 16 different locations along the western seaboard. It is company policy to source goods and services from the communities in which the company is based. In addition, the company spends some €10million annually on wages and salaries in Ireland. This is directed into coastal communities where typically, other employment opportunities can be quite limited.

The most recent in a long list of industry standard accreditations awarded to Marine Harvest Ireland in the last year was the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) supported Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) salmon standard which is

one of the highest international environmental and social sustainability standards in the fish farming sector. The standard was obtained for a site at Deenish Island in Ballinskelligs Bay in Kerry which is the first ASC salmon standard held by the company. The company plans to have all farm sites accredited to this standard by 2020.

A great deal of the demand for Irish salmon is based on the quality of the product, Irish salmon farmers have learned to turn our exposed coastline to our advantage.

Our fish are constantly swimming resulting in a distinctive firm-fleshed premium quality salmon.

MHI’s Clare Island Sea Farms off the Mayo coast was the first salmon farm in the world to achieve organic certification.

Marine Harvest Ireland is unequivocally committed to working with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine to deliver greater output thereby generating substantial employment, economic activity in a sustainable way which is in line with Government policy.

The time is right and the opportunity ripe to harness the potential of our magnificent marine resource.

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Net maker W&J Knox Ltd continuing to provide expertise and experience to the aquaculture industry

he last few months have seen some changes at netmaker, W & J Knox, as Managing Director, Jim Traynor, has moved into the gilded seat of Chairman, whilst Director, Roger Dehany, becomes Deputy Chairman. Although effectively handing over the reins, Jim and Roger are still involved in the running of the company, and will both be in attendance on the Knox stand at the Aquaculture Scotland exhibition in May in Aviemore.

New Managing Director, Dave Hutchens, who moves up to this job brings many years of practical experience in fish farming. Finlay Oman has the new title of Commercial Director, but continues in his role offering

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technical net advice.

Knox’s partnership with Indian company, GarwareWall Ropes Ltd (GWRL), continues to work on the development of netting products for use in both cage nets and anti-predator solutions.

The GWRL brand “Star netting” was introduced to the market a couple of years ago, with cage nets constructed in Star being supplied to all of the leading salmon farming companies in the UK. A prime advantage is the smoother surface, which makes the cleaning process much easier, with algae and other fouling struggling to establish an anchor point.

Other GWRL netting developments include Sapphire Ultracore and

Sapphire Seal Pro. Ultracore, a knotted high density polythene netting with fine stainless steel wires in its core, is often incorporated

by Knox as an anti-predator base on nets made from Star, frequently covering both the base and up to 6m of walls. Initial reviews have indicated success and also tell of the whole net holding its shape very well. Seal Pro is a lighter but also very tough version of Sapphire, with a polymer core, and stiffness enhanced by hot waxes injected during braiding. This netting can be used for growing fish and already has a proven track record in Canada.

Knox is also now supplying treatment tarpaulins from GWRL, both wedge and cone-shaped, with a repair

and renovation service being offered in the netmaker’s premises in Ayrshire.

Of course, repairs and renovations don’t only apply to tarpaulins, as the dedicated Knox net service team complements the production of new nets. One of the most popular elements of the service offering is the comprehensive database, which records all test results, building up a full net history, with direct online customer access.

Please get in touch with Dave Hutchens or Finlay Oman for further details.

W & J Knox Ltd, Mill Road, Kilbirnie, Ayrshire, Scotland KA25 7DZ Tel: +44 1505 682511 www.wjknox.co.uk

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Conveying

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Innovative and easy to use new oyster grader from BESNARD ast Autumn, Besnard set up its first two circular oyster graders: “we didn’t have this kind of machine in our range because we didn’t simply want to copy our competitors without adding something new and innovative” says Antoine Besnard, technical Sales Manager.

“But realising the demand from the oyster farming sector for innovaton we put our ideas to work. Now we are proud to be able to offer a truely ingenious and innovative oyster grading machine!

This grader uses a single weighing sensor which is independent of number of buckets. It also offers perfect work quality and significant time saving.

Oysters are dispatched on a specific distributor, thanks to a system of alignment by tubes; so oysters are weighed one by one on a weighing conveyor before falling into the right bucket .

The grader is available in two versions - twelve or sixteen buckets with

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capacities of 10,000 and 14,500 weighings per hour respectively.

The grader’s direction and rotation can be altered with minimal modification. And if it has to be moved to another building, all that’s required is an electric power socket.

You can easily program the machine (exits, grades, counters etc.) thanks our

easy-to-use colour touchsensitive display.

The in-line grader proposes a weighing system of 4 oysters per second, equivalent to 14,500 per hour for one line with a precision of +/- 1 gram.

Besnard has just set up a new double in-line grader with a rate of 29,000 weighings per hour.

For that past three years

Besnard has been supplying oyster water graders. The 9m model equipped with 5 exits which the company displayed at the National Shellfish Farming and Aquaculture Trade Show in Vannes in September attracted lots of interest.

Irish oyster producers are already showing a keen interest in these new graders.

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Triskell Seafood expanding to provide an even better service

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riginally from Brittany where she grew up by the sea, Marie-Aude Danguy has lived and worked in the North West of Ireland since 1988. Always with a passion for fishing and seafood, and after studying in Sligo, she began working with a group of local shellfish farmers, and eventually established her own company, Triskell Seafood Ltd, about 20 years ago.

Triskell Seafood Ltd was set-up initially to trade shellfish from Ireland to France, but the potential to expand into other areas became obvious at an early stage.

“At Triskell Seafood we strive always to deliver excellence. That means we are committed to understanding our clients’ needs in order to be able to provide them with the most suitable product, service or solution in the most reliable and cost efficient manner”, says Marie-Aude.

Specialising in live shellfish - mainly Gigas oysters – Triskell Seafood offers a complete service to the aquaculture industry at every stage of the growing cycle. As well as supplying Gigas seed from a variety of sources to suit growers’ requirements the company also offers an extensive range of professional and reliable aquaculture equipment.

Triskell Seafood keeps upto-date on the very latest technology available in the shellfish growing sector worldwide and can offer advice as well as the most suitable equipment depending each customer’s site, requirements and budget. The company also

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trades live shellfish products, and through its extensive customer base across Europe, it endeavours to match customers to each category and quality of seafood on offer.

Despite operating at a European level, Marie-Aude always meets customers and suppliers on site to ensure that a customised personal service is delivered.

Through her extensive experience and contacts Marie-Aude guarantees effective networking and a mutually beneficial relationship.

Triskell Seafood also assists in establishing partnerships between Irish and overseas companies. This can entail shellfish on-growing contracts, where an overseas company may commission an Irish farmer to cultivate part-grown or fully-grown oysters on their own site. The result is a win-win situation for both parties. As well as this arrangement, Triskell

Seafood is proficient in organizing the complete sale of a farm operation, if required.

Triskell Seafood is delighted to announce that they will soon relocate to new premises conveniently located in the Collooney Business Park (Co. Sligo), at the junction of the Sligo – Dublin N4 and Sligo – Galway N17 roads. Planned for April, the new premises will enable Triskell to to provide its customers with an even better service.

Triskell Seafood will continue to import well established brands such as Nortene, Intermas, YAD Marine oyster bags and all relevant accessories. The company also supplies top brands of specialised clothing such as Le Chameau, Guy Cotten and Helly Hansen (including footwear, oilskins, work gloves and much more) “We organise deliveries of parcels and pallets nationwide within 24 hours

of customers’ orders. We are always happy to discuss the best options for our clients and if required we can even source products outside of our existing range,” says Marie-Aude.

These are exciting times for Marie-Aude Danguy and her team at Triskell Seafood: “We will continue to grow the seafood trading part of the operation and we look forward to providing a wider range of specialised aquaculture equipment to our customers. We are also working closely with Irish manufacturers to design and supply new products at an even more competitive rate.”

For updates, please visit the company’s facebook pages: www.facebook.com/triskellse afood For all enquiries, please contact Marie-Aude & her team (Lorena and Katarina) on 087 2451558 or 089 4631003, or email info@triskellseafood.com

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Aquaculture UK 2016 set to be bigger and better than ever!

Aquaculture UK 2016, 25-26 May is set to be bigger and better than ever with over 130 exhibitors from around the world showcasing the latest in aquaculture health and innovation.

Held every two years in the small town of Aviemore, nestled in the beautiful Cairngorms National Park, Aquaculture UK brings together leading scientists, companies, farmers and aquaculture experts from around the world.

As the biggest aquaculture show in the UK, Aquaculture UK 2016, is not to be missed. As well as a trade show, the conference will feature a two-day seminar programme covering many of the industry’s challenges, the importance of aquaculture training and knowledge transfer and aquaculture health and biosecurity, to name but a few.

“The focus is on making sure the discussions at the conference reflect the most important issues relevant to this year’s visitors,” said Matt Colvan, Director at 5m Publishing.

Jonn Sólheim Thomsen at KJ, the largest supplier of cages and catamarans to the Faroese salmon industry and exhibitors at the event said: “We are coming back this year because Aquaculture UK 2014 was very good for us.”

“We met many people from the industry and received orders on cages and catamarans. We are now looking forward to Aquaculture UK 2016 to

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meet both current and future customers.”

GALA DINNER The ever popular Gala Dinner will also be held on Wednesday evening and offers you the chance to relax and mingle with friends and colleagues.

Evening entertainment will be provided by Robbie Glen. With his ‘dry Scottish wit and natural timing’ Robbie is described as being ‘one of the finest after-dinner speakers you’re likely to hear’.

There are limited spaces remaining so make sure you book your place as soon as possible. To book your seat please click here. www.5mevents.com/product/aqukgala-dinner/

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER The sharing of knowledge to further

the growth of the aquaculture industry is at the heart of the event. With this in mind, entry to the two day show is FREE, giving everyone the opportunity to meet with leading experts and decision makers or to talk about their latest research and developments.

Matt Colvan commented: “This ground-breaking exhibition, conference and gala dinner is recognised as the essential place to launch and promote new products, meet new customers, establish relationships with buyers and suppliers, and network with everyone from industry influencers to leading academics, hands-on researchers, government agencies and international journalists.”

David Mack, who founded the event, added: “Going forward, feedback has been taken from previous events to make this year’s show the biggest and the best yet.”

To register for you FREE visitor pass please click here www.aquacultureuk.com/index.php?c= visitor_reg For more information visit the Aquaculture UK website www.aquacultureuk.com/

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EDINBURGH

to host Aquaculture Europe 2016 in EASâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 40th Year

1976-2016! The European Aquaculture Society is celebrating its 40th year and continuing its objective to be the European forum for the exchange of aquaculture information. Apart from its publications and online networking for its members, EAS organises an annual event, Aquaculture Europe, that brings together a conference, trade exhibition, industry forums and satellite meetings and workshops with more than a thousand participants sharing new scientific findings, product and services information and experience.

Aquaculture Europe 2016 will take place at the Edinburgh International

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Conference Centre (IECC) from September 20-23. AE2016 is organised by the European Aquaculture Society with the cooperation and support of Marine Scotland, part of the Scottish Government, and The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland.

The event is Gold Sponsored by Biomar.

The event theme FOOD FOR THOUGHT that means something to think about, something to be seriously considered and something that provides mental stimulation and nourishment.

Aquaculture in Europe has plateaued resulting in overall output remaining

more or less constant in volume since 2000. AE2016 will present the latest science to support further development and industry panels will discuss key opportunities and identify areas to encourage further sustainable growth in aquaculture. The morning plenary sessions will address different aspects of the event theme in a novel way.

PARALLEL SESSIONS AE2016 has something for everyone, and the list of proposed parallel sessions for the submission of abstracts is very broad: Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland

• New advances in trout farming • Diversification in Aquaculture

production • DIVERSIFY: Exploring the

biological and socio-economic potential of new/emerging candidate fish species for expansion of the European aquaculture industry • Cleaner fish: biology, production

and management • Shellfish production and

diversification • Mariculture and conservation of

marine invertebrates and corals • Macro and Micro algae

production • Laboratory models (e.g.

Zebrafish and others) • Nutrition: New sources of protein • Nutrition: New sources of

Omega-3 fatty acids • Nutrition: Nutritional

requirements in marine organisms • Production of copepods as live

feeds • Arriana: Advanced research

initiatives for nutrition & aquaculture • Recent advances in digestive

physiology: The gut, its health and molecular nutrition • Advances in the mitigation of

deformity • Application of genetics and

genomics in Aquaculture • AquaTrace: the development of

tools for tracing and evaluating the genetic impact of fish from aquaculture • Fishboost: Boosting European

aquaculture by advancing selective breeding to the next level • Hatcheries

• Escapee prevention and

management: from systems to biotechnology • Disease prevention, treatment

and management • Disease description, mapping

and epidemiology • Sealice control

• Gill health and challenges

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• Shellfish production and

diversification • Mariculture and conservation

of marine invertebrates and corals • Macro and Micro algae

production • Laboratory models (e.g.

Zebrafish and others) • Nutrition: New sources of

protein • Nutrition: New sources of

Omega-3 fatty acids • Shellfish Health

• Microalgae-derived toxins,

analysis and regulations • Predator management • Finfish welfare

• Fish behaviour in aquaculture

systems • Integrated Multitrophic

Aquaculture (IMTA) • Aquaponics and biofloc

• Advances in recirculation and

closed containment aquaculture systems • Farming operations, cage

environment and biology/technology interactions • Organic Aquaculture

• Aquaculture globalisation:

SPECIAL SESSIONS AND EVENTS AE2016 will also include other sessions, workshops and events in the trade show area. These include: • The EAS STUDENT GROUP WORKSHOP

- a special forum for students to enable networking and exchange of ideas. The programme will include a focus on entrepreneurship and mentoring – plus a special student reception.

• The EU FORUM – chaired by

representatives of the EC Directorate for Research and Innovation and showcasing recent and ongoing EU projects.

• The AE2016 INDUSTRY FORUMS –

where latest scientific findings related to a particular issue for aquaculture producers will be presented and discussed. Planned forums for AE2016 include cleanerfish, RAS, genetics and breeding programmes and shellfish.

• The British Trout Association is

planning to hold its Annual General Assembly in Edinburgh at AE2016.

• The EAS – EATiP Day. Since 2014, EAS

has teamed up with the European Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Platform (EATiP) to organise a special one-day event of panel discussions focussing on relevant and timely issues for the sector.

• The EAS-IUCN panel on Aquaculture in

Marine Protected Areas.

production and research across borders • Climate change: impact,

mitigation and ecosystem services • Understanding public

perception and consumer demands • Labelling and certification of

aquaculture products • Novel tools and approaches to

training and teaching in aquaculture • Governance, Policy and

Strategic planning

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

EVENT Aquaculture Europe 2016 will feature a special international trade exhibition, organised by EAS where Scottish and international companies will present the latest products and services for aquaculture.

Both Standard and Corner booths will be available. Each booth is 6m2 (2x3m) and features walls, carpet, two chairs and a table, spotlights, one power outlet, fascia identification sign and two free passes for the conference.

For booth information, reservation and advertising opportunities, please contact Mario Stael, AE2016 Exhibit Sales Manager mario@marevent.com Register early and book your hotel The Early Bird registration deadline is June 15, where the EAS Member rate is just €395.

We have agreed special rates with several hotels in Edinburgh. These are posted on the AE2016 pages of the EAS web site.

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Marine Institute research supporting aquaculture in 2016 Lisa Fitzpatrick, Marine Institute

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he Marine Institute provides a range of monitoring, advisory and statutory services that support the aquaculture industry and ensure the protection of the marine ecosystem. The Marine Institute also carries out scientific research to support the sustainable development of the industry. These services and research outputs ensure that aquaculture in Ireland is carried out to international best practice standards and in accordance with national and European legislation.

Here’s a look some of the aquaculture research currently being carried out.

TOOLS FOR ASSESSMENT AND PLANNING OF AQUACULTURE SUSTAINABILITY (TAPAS)

Cullen Fellow Stephen McGirr at the Marine Institute in Galway investigates the biology of the toxic phytoplankton Azadinium and how it intoxicates bivalve shellfish with the toxin Azaspiracid.

The Marine Institute is the Irish partner in the TAPAS project, with Dr. Dave Jackson leading the team. The project aims to develop an ‘Aquaculture Sustainability Toolbox’ to support the development and implementation of coastal and marine spatial planning enabling less costly, more transparent and more efficient licensing. The project is led by Professor Trevor Telfer of the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling.

The EU's Blue Growth Strategy identifies aquaculture as one of five sectors to harness untapped potential for food production and jobs while focusing on environmental sustainability.

The EU Horizon 2020 funded TAPAS project began in March 2016 to address this challenge.

The project will evaluate existing regulatory and licensing frameworks across the EU, taking into account the range of production environments and new approaches such as offshore technologies, integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA), and integration with other sectors.

TAPAS partners will work with key industry regulators through case studies to ensure that the project approach and outcomes are practical. The project will evaluate existing tools for economic assessment of

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aquaculture sustainability affecting sectoral growth.

TAPAS will also examine existing ecosystem planning tools and develop new approaches for the evaluation of carrying capacities, environmental impact and future risk. The project aims to improve existing environmental assessment models and develop new models to provide better monitoring, observation, forecasting and early warning technologies.

RISK ASSESSMENT FOR NOROVIRUS IN OYSTERS Bill Dore, Sinead Keaveney and Agnieszka Rupnik at the Marine Institute are working

on a project led by Professor Francis Butler in UCD, to develop a risk assessment model as a tool for oyster producers and risk managers to help control the Norovirus (NoV) risk in oysters. NoV is the most common cause of outbreaks of gastroenteritis associated with eating oysters and can occur when oysters are grown in sewage contaminated water. Current methods to detect NoV in oysters are based on molecular techniques and do not distinguish between infectious and non-infectious virus particles. Therefore it hasn’t yet been possible to set an acceptable limit for NoV in shellfish.

The risk assessment model

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will determine the exposure of consumers to NoV and will allow the risk of illness from consuming oysters to be estimated. The research will also inform oyster producers about appropriate control and intervention strategies to produce a safer product. The project will provide evidencebased information feeding into efforts at a national and European level to determine appropriate acceptable limits for NoV in oysters. Improved food safety measures in this area should also help to open up sensitive export markets to Irish producers.

This research is funded by the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine’s FIRM programme.

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the role of antiviral compounds as mechanisms of control. The sustainability of the Irish Pacific oyster aquaculture industry is dependent on the knowledge gained through applied research to counteract the challenges imposed by OsHV1 μVar and Vibrio aestuarianus. A better understanding of the management of these pathogens will contribute to an improvement in Pacific oyster health at all stages of production and contribute to enhanced production and sustainability of the industry.

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gain a better understanding of the role of these pathogens in oyster mortality events in Ireland and to mitigate against losses associated with their presence.

This project will assess current mortality rates at oyster culture sites, identify the pathogens associated with these events, and characterise and assess the disease producing capacity of identified isolates. The mechanisms that viruses and Vibrio species use to maintain themselves at culture sites will be investigated by looking the role of other carriers and assessing the distribution capacity of these pathogens from a culture site. The role of the environment in disease development will be assessed, as well as the use of modified husbandry techniques, and

OYSTERS Deborah Cheslett and Ciar O’Toole at the Marine Institute’s Fish Health Unit began work on the REPOSUS project in 2015. The project is led by Professor Sarah Culloty, UCC and is also funded by the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine’s FIRM programme. It aims to reduce the impact of pathogens associated with mortalities in Pacific oysters.

Since 2008, oyster mortality events have been mainly associated with a herpes virus infection, in particular the variant OsHV-1 μVar. To date, no means of eradication has been found for this virus.

In addition, since 2011 in France the bacterium V. aestuarianus was regularly detected during oyster mortalities in all oyster age groups. A recent survey in Ireland has shown that Vibrio aestuarianus is widely distributed in oyster growing areas during mortality events with significant oyster mortality events in fourteen shellfish production sites associated with its presence during 2015. There is a pressing need therefore to

Ciar O Toole works on the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine’s FIRM funded Reposus project, aimed at reducing the impact of pathogens associated with high mortality rates in Pacific oysters.

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RESEARCH THE SOURCE OF SHELLFISH TOXINS The Biological Oceanography of Azadinium Stephen McGirr recently

began a three year Cullen Fellowship co-supervised by Nicolas Touzet at the Institute of Technology in Sligo and Joe Silke in the shellfish safety group at the Marine Institute, to investigate aspects of the biology of the toxic phytoplankton Azadinium and how it intoxicates bivalve shellfish with the toxin Azaspiracid (AZA).

AZA has a significant impact on shellfish production in Ireland as both farmed and wild shellfish can become toxic to consumers when they are contaminated with AZA, leading to gastroenteritislike illness that lasts for over two days. These toxins are regulated under EU law and a shellfish monitoring programme is carried out to advise on opening and closing shellfish production areas to protect consumers.

Research carried out in recent years identified a small planktonic species that produces the toxin.

The causative organism belongs to the genus Azadinium, a previously unknown group of dinoflagellates and several new species belonging to this group have been identified. The identification of the species is hampered by its small size, but molecular methods have been developed that have made this possible.

Stephen’s research will focus on investigating the biological diversity of Azadinium and closely related species in Irish waters and their azaspiracid production potential, documenting the biological oceanography of Azadinium, and investigating the apparent discrepancy of shellfish contamination with azaspiracids associated with relatively low numbers of Azadinium cells in the water column.

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Aquaculture & Fisheries Development Centre (AFDC), University College Cork Dr Maria O’Mahoney*

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he Aquaculture & Fisheries Development Centre established in 1987 at the School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences (BEES), University College Cork, is a research centre of the Environmental Research Institute (ERI) encompassing five strategic research areas: Aquaculture; Shellfish Health, Marine Mammals & Fisheries, Molecular Genetics of Aquatic Animals and Fish Evolutionary Ecology. The overarching strategic vision of the centre is to support, stimulate and promote the development of aquaculture and fisheries, thereby enabling these sectors to achieve their full socioeconomic potential by utilising sustainable natural resources. Research at the AFDC is conducted under six main Principal Investigators (PI’s), five of which are core staff at the School of BEES. Prof. Sarah Culloty, Director of the AFDC and ERI leads Shellfish Health Research; Prof. Gavin Burnell leads Aquaculture Research; Prof.

Emer Rogan leads Marine Mammals & Fisheries Research; Dr Tom Reed leads Fish Evolutionary Ecology Research and Emeritus Prof.

Tom Cross and Dr Phil McGinnity lead Molecular Genetics of Aquatic Animals Research. Dr Maria O’Mahoney is the Manager of the AFDC. Since 2007, the AFDC has secured over €15.7m in funding for research from national and European Union funding programmes.

This has included several

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high profile projects such as the Beaufort Fish Populations Genetics project in partnership with the Marine Institute, NUIG and QUB, and the Beaufort Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management project in partnership with the Coastal and Marine Research Centre (CMRC, UCC) and Marine Institute as well as a number of European Union projects, including OYSTERECOVER, BIVALIFE, SUSFISH, EUROSHELL, HERPISH, Celtic Sea Trout and AARC.

RESEARCH Current research activities, funded to the value of €7.4m, include a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant awarded to Dr Tom Reed for a five-year project entitled “Alternative life histories: linking gene to phenotypes to demography” focussing on brown trout/sea trout Salmo trutta. This project is further supported by a Science Foundation Ireland ERC support grant. In the area of Shellfish Health, two research projects are currently ongoing – the EU H2020 funded project ‘VIVALDI - Preventing and mitigating farmed bivalve diseases’, involves collaborations with 20 partners in Ireland, UK, France and Spain and will run from 2015-2019 and the DAFM FIRM funded project ‘REPOSUS - Reducing the impact of pathogens and disease in the Irish oyster industry to support the

Dr Tom Reed awarded a European Research Council Starting Grant at the AFDC.

sustainability and growth of the sector’.

Dr Emer Rogan (Marine Mammals and Fisheries Research) is leading the ‘ObSERVE aerial’ project, funded by the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in partnership with of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, which conducts aerial survey of cetaceans and seabirds in Irish waters.

Surveys will run from Donegal, down the west coast and out to the continental shelf edge, and across the Celtic sea.

‘ObSERVE aerial’ is being conducted in partnership with Dr Mark Jessopp (SFI MaREI Centre) and international partners from The Netherlands, France and

Spain. Within the Molecular Genetics of Aquatic Animals group, Dr Phil McGinnity secured funding from the European Union H2020 funding programme for a project entitled ‘AMBER Adaptive Management of Barriers in European Rivers’ involving 15 international partners in Ireland, UK, Denmark, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, Italian, Poland. * Dr Maria O’Mahoney, Manager, Aquaculture & Fisheries Development Centre, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Cooperage Building, Distillery Fields, North Mall, Cork, Ireland.

Tel: +353 (0) 21 4904541; Fax: +353 (0) 21 4904664; Web: http://afdc.ucc.ie

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Are seaweeds the answer for the future of global animal production?

Dr Stefan Kraan, Scientific Director, Ocean Harvest Technology Ltd

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ith the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s population currently topping 7 billion and expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050 we are heading for troublesome times ahead in food production. And with beef and pork farming much less efficient, aquaculture is likely to become the major food supplier. However, for that to happen issues like the sustainability of feedstuffs must be addressed. For example, fish meal is in short supply worldwide and is becoming too expensive as a protein source for use in livestock feeds.

Over the last five years therefore EU research projects and commercial companies have begun to focus on seaweeds as a natural, sustainable protein source in animal feeds. The use of synthetics, chemicals and antibiotics to combat disease is becoming an issue with contamination and residues in the food chain and resistance built up by common bacteria. A paper issued in the United States in December 2015 on the need to remove antibiotics from animal feed has led many large companies to look for alternatives. And with protein values ranging from 10-40% and often containing many bioactives, seaweeds might very well be a part of the answer. We are not quite there yet, but the signs are already promising.

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ISSUES IN LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION Farmed fish is high in nutrients like omega-3

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Above: Exotic Irish red seaweeds may provide novel antibiotics.

Left: Sea spaghetti fields in clear waters off the Donegal coast Images courtesy of Ocean Harvest Technology

polyunsaturated fatty acids and proven to have other beneficial effects on health.

However, when fed vegetable oils farmed fish may have lower amounts of omega-3 fatty acids than wild fish.

They tend also to have more total fat and slightly less protein - and they may also have higher levels of contaminants, such as antibiotics, synthetic chemicals, colorants preservatives and PCBs. Therefore, in response to growing environmental, disease, and food safety concerns related to farmed fish, Ocean Harvest Technology (OHT) Ltd. has developed a sustainable, seaweed-based commercial fish feed ingredient that not only replaces synthetic chemical additives and colorants, it also increases the fishâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Omega-3 fatty acid levels and bolsters its ability to ward off parasites.

In the Swine industry too where artificial medications are often used to excess, seaweed-based diets can play a major role in replacing antibiotics. OHT has proven this in several trials in Asia

and America. Oceanfeed Swine product will be launched at the Pork Expo in the US this summer.

ALTERNATIVES Seaweeds, also know as macroalgae, are rich in all of the nutrients required in both human and animal diets. Gracilaria, for example, a species already cultivated worldwide, contains all the essential amino acids in levels close to egg protein, and 74% of its fatty acids are unsaturated - 33% EPA, 13% DHA. Certain specific carbohydrates such as alginates, carrageenans, laminarins and fucoidans present in brown and green algae, are known to have antiviral and anti-tumour functions as well as immunostimulatory, and probiotic properties that stimulate natural immune systems.

ANTIBIOTIC ACTIVITY FROM SEAWEED Chemicals responsible for antibiotic activities such as halogenated alkanes and alkenes, alcohols, aldehydes, hydroquinones and ketones

are widespread in macroalgae. And the list of terpenoids with antibiotic properties is lengthy - many of which are also halogenated. Compounds such as sterols and heterocyclic and phenolic compounds sometimes have antibiotic properties. A promising antibacterial agent is halogenated furanone, or fimbrolide, from Delisea a common red alga found along the Irish coast. This species has also been examined for its effectiveness as an active ingredient in bacterial antifouling agents, and as a possible treatment for chronic Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection.

Some of the common Irish brown seaweeds also show a strong antibacterial effect on Vibrio, a widespread bacterial infection in shrimp and salmonids. In general, seaweeds show antibacterial effects on many marine and terrestrial pathogens although the exact mechanism and possible synergies with other compounds is not yet fully understood.

Looking at all the benefits of seaweeds therefore in terms of a sustainable protein source it seems they are likely to play an increasingly important role in the nutrition of our growing world population!

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Organic Seaweed Production in Ireland Fergal Guilfoyle, Organic Trust Aquaculture Inspector

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eaweed is the “new” superfood and is experiencing a massive resurgence in interest.

Celebrity chefs in Ireland and the UK have been coming up with new and innovative recipes for us to try and companies are developing new products with seaweed as a main ingredient. Seaweed has been collected from the shore in Ireland for thousands of years, for use both as a food and a fertiliser. The renewed interest is mainly in the nutritional qualities of the edible species and the buoyant market for alginates and fertiliser from the bulkharvested species.

even attempt to enter this market unless you are certified Organic”. Organic certification is now not just a welcome addition to a brand image, it’s essential!

Organic Aquaculture in Ireland is a growing sector and the recently published National Strategic Plan for Sustainable Aquaculture Development highlights the Organic status of Irish seafood as a specific focus for development over the coming years. Grant aid is now available from BIM for Organic Certification, up to €10,000 at a rate of 4050%*.

ORGANIC CERTIFICATION Ireland has a reputation as a clean and green food producer with a natural environment that is second to none. The resurgent seaweed industry in Ireland is in a prime position to benefit from this renewed interest and we can use our excellent image to differentiate the Irish product from competitors.

One essential element of this Irish branding is certification as an Organic product. At a recent BIM conference Farmed Irish Seaweed: An Ocean Wonderfood? (LimerickNovember, 2014) several international speakers spoke about the potential for Irish seaweed on the European market and stated “do not

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SECTORS There are two main sectors in the Irish industry. The bulk sector cutting mainly Ascophyllum on the shore for the alginate and soil conditioner market. This low

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Wave cut platform in Donegal, with a rich variety of harvestable seaweed. Sustainable harvesting is required to ensure a long-term business Photo Fergal Guilfoyle

price/high volume product is highly sought after and new companies have entered this market with renewed interest in securing access to the resource. The Department of Environment is developing a new licensing system which should simplify access to this resource while protecting the rights of the traditional cutters who have been using the resource for generations.

The sector with the most potential for growth in the coming years is the high value sector, farming and wild harvesting various

species of seaweed (algae) for direct sales as a food, as a nutritional ingredient, as an ingredient in beauty products and as a raw material in the nutriceutical/pharmaceutica l industries. This sector can rely on wild gathering for a wide variety of species although available volumes of certain species tend to be low. If larger volumes are required then farming is a more reliable source. Both wild collection and farmed production can be certified Organic although grant aid is only available for farmed production.

The potential for Irish Organic Seaweed is huge for both wild gathered product and farmed production.

Certification as an organic producer is a low cost and simple process. *For more information visit the BIM website www.bim.ie/schemes/sustai nableaquaculturescheme/ Or contact Fergal Guilfoyle, Organic Trust Aquaculture Inspector on 01-853 0271; 087 987 3030; Fergal@treanbeg.com www.organictrust.ie

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Carlingford Lough Shellfish Cooperative Society Ltd. MillGrange Greenore Co. Louth (042) 9383894 M: (086) 1053033 C: PJ Donnelly Chapman Robert Slade Fethard on Sea, New Ross, Co. Wexford T: (051) 397303 C: Robert chapman Cloughmore Shellfish Ltd. 16A, The Harbour Kilkeel Co. Down, BT34 4AX T: 0044 (0)2841769208 (T&F) T: (028) 41769208 E: cloughmoreshellfishltd@ gmail.com C: Brian Cunningham

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Crescent Seafoods Ltd. Mytilus Ballaghablake Curracloe Co. Wexford M: (087) 2933616 E: crescentseafoodsltd@gmail.com C: Simon Dingemanse

Alex Mc Carthy Shellfish Ltd. Mytilus Ballaghablake, Curracloe Co. Wexford M: (087) 2933616 E: crescentseafoodsltd@gmail.com C: Simon Dingemanse

Cromane Mussels Ltd. Stookisland Cromane, Killorglin, Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769306 M: (086) 8941025 C: Tony O’Sullivan

Ballylawn Shellfish Ltd. Ballylawn Redcastle Co. Donegal T: (07493) 82805 M: (086) 2902462 C: Danny McDermott

Cromane Point Oysters Ltd. Cromane Lower Killorglin Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769256 M: (087) 6937028 C: Gerald O’Reilly

Blake Conor 3 Chapel Road Rathmullan Co. Donegal T: (07491) 58368 M: (087) 6186334 C: Conor Blake

Dingle Bay Shellfish Ltd. Cromane Lower Killorglin Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769247 M: (087) 9304870 E: stephenjamesfoley@gmail.com C: Stephen Foley

Riverbank MusselsLtd. c/o ocallaghan/o’mahony clonard business park Co. Wexford T: (053) 9121280 M: (087) 2722413 C: Mick Crowley

Doyle, Hugh and Paul Bennet Killag, Duncormick Co. Wexford T: (051) 563075 M: (086) 8625809 C: Hugh Doyle

Caragh Clams Ltd. Stookisland, Cromane Killorglin Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769975 T: (066) 9769390 M: (087) 6608569 (PO’S) E: kerryosullivans@eircom.net C: Paul O’Sullivan

Emerald Mussels Ltd. Carrowhooly Westport Co. Mayo T: (098) 26431 M: (086) 1740860 M: (087) 2557938 E: bryanhyland@gmail.com C: Bryan Hyland

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Flynn, Liam 11 Chancellors Road Bessbrook, Newry, Co. Down, N.I. C: Liam Flynn

Morgan, Ciaran Ardaghy Omeath Co. Louth C: Ciaran Morgan

Frank McCarthy Lonart, Cromane Upper, Killorglin, Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769375 M: (087) 6432563 E: skippershaven@eircom.net C: Frank McCarthy

Moroney Michael Glosha Cromane, Killorglin, Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769256 M: (087) 6439603 C: Michael Moroney

Fresco Seafoods Ltd. Greencastle Co. Donegal Co. Donegal T: (07491) 81333 T: (07493) 81356 M: (086) 2516603 E: kellykilmoyle@gmail.com C: Gerard Kelly

N&A Scallan 29 William Street Wexford Town Co. Wexford T: (053) 9122080(T&F) M: (087) 9229152 Sean M: (087) 6253759 E: nascallanmussels@eircom.net C: Martin Scallan

Geno O’Connor Tullig Cromane, Killorglin, Co. Kerry C: Geno O’Connor

O’Connor, Liam North Commons Liberties, Carlingford, Co. Louth C: Liam O’Connor

Griffin-Reilly Group Cromane Lower Killorglin Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769235 M: (086) 6094346 C: John Joe O’Reilly

O’sullivan McCarthy Mussel Development Ltd. Cromane Lower Killorglin Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769243 F: (066) 9769293 M: (087) 2119955 E: AMCT87A@hotmail.com C: Arthur McCarthy

Jeremiah Costello Lonart, Cromane Upper, Killorglin, Co. Kerry M: (087) 7696731 C: Jeremiah & Denis Costello Lett & Co. Ltd. Mytilus Ballaghablake, Curracloe Co. Wexford M: (087) 2933616 E: crescentseafoodsltd@gmail.com C: Simon Dingemanse Lough Garmin Harbour Mussels Ltd. 37 Charles Street Warrenpoint Co. Down BT343JZ T: 353(0) 16602404 F: 353(0) 16765212 T: (0031) 113571312 E: PeterMinnaard@hotmail.com C: Peter Minnaard

Patrick T O’Sullivan Cromane Lower Killorglin Co. Kerry M: (087) 2198157 E: patricktosullivan@live.co.uk C: Patrick T. O’Sullivan Paul Teahan Group Cromane Point, Cromane Lower Killorglin Co. Kerry M: (087) 2737825 C: Paul Teahan Scannell Michael Douglas Killorglin Co. Kerry T: (066) 9761614 M: (087) 7632453 C: Mike Scannell

Lough Swilly Shellfish Growers Co-operative Soc. Ltd. Station House Malin Road, Carndonagh, Co. Donegal T: (07493) 74285 T: (07493) 74623 71861006 F: (07493) 74685(F) C: Danny Gallagher

South East Shellfish Cooperative Ltd. Duncannon Fort New Ross Co. Wexford M: (087) 2574507 E: christopherhannoneng@ yahoo.com C: Christopher Hannon

McCrudden, Derek Drumaweir Greencastle Co. Donegal T: (07493) 81378 M: (086) 2860931 C: Derek McCrudden

Sugrue Group Cromane Lower Killorglin Co. Kerry M: (087) 9862453 T: (066) 9769505 C: Michael Sugrue

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Teahan Partnership Cromane Lower Killorglin Co. Kerry M: (087) 2654681 T: (066) 9769357 E: teahanpartners@gmail.com C: Michael Teahan Tully Shellfish Ltd. Tullyally Redcastle Co. Donegal T: (07493) 82436 M: (087) 2296153 E: tullyshellfish@gmail.com C: Michael Havlin Wexford Mussels Ltd. Rockfield, Coolcotts Co. Wexford T: (053) 24351 M: (087) 2219077 E: wexmuss@eircom.net C: Sean Ryan William Casey Group Cromane Cross Killorglin, Co. Kerry M: (087) 7709147 C: Willie Casey Woodstown Bay Shellfish Ltd. The Harbour Dunmore East Co. Waterford T: (051) 383461 T: (051) 383664 M: (087) 2565549 E: paulbarlo@eircom.net C: Paul Barlow Lenger Seafoods Irl. Ltd. Unit 2, Kilkeel Fish Market The Harbour, Kilkeel, Co. Down, BT34 4AX T: (077) 36553822 E: salengerjr@lengerseafoods.nl C: Fergus Stephenson

Freshwater Trout Araglen Trout Farm Ltd. Araglen, Kilworth Co. Cork T: (058) 50049 M: (087) 8562073 E: johnhaydon@eircom.net C: John Haydon

Raford Fish Farm Ltd. Raford Kiltulla, Athenry, Co. Galway T: (091) 848137 C: Francis Burke

Gigas Oyster Adrigole Oysters Ltd. Adrigole Beara, Co. Cork C: Danny O’Shea Armada Shellfish Co. Ltd. Old Farm Buildings Lissadell, Co. Sligo T: (07191) 63153 T: (07191) 73034 (F) M: (087) 2360364 E: LEYDONP@gmail.com C: Paul Leydon Askoysters Ltd. Leenan, Kiel, Clonmany Co. Donegal M: (086) 1966203 M: (086) 0733501 E: askoysters@gmail.com C: Anthony Kearney Baile Mhic Oda Teo 3 Harbour Row, Ring Road, Cobh Co. Cork M: 068 2881791 T: 0033 682881791 E: noel.keane35@eircom.net E: baie-isigny@wannadoo.fr C: Damien Perdriel, Keane, Noel Ballylawn Shellfish Ltd. Ballylawn, Redcastle Co. Donegal M: (086) 2902462 T: (07493) 82805 F: (07493) 82806 C: Danny McDermott Ballyteighue Oyster Co. Lacken Duncormick Co. Wexford T: (051) 8563438 M: (086) 8265367 C: Noel Roche Barr Michael Foyle Water View Ballymacarthur, Greencastle, Co. Donegal C: Michael Barr

Goatsbridge Trout Farm Ltd. Goatsbridge Thomastown Co. Kilkenny T: (056) 7724140 M: (086) 2544907 E: ger@goatsbridgetrout.ie or E: info@goatsbridgetrout.ie C: Gerard Kirwan

Barron Thomas Mullinahorna Ring, Dungarvan Co. Waterford T: 058 46283 M: (087) 3113748 C: Michael Burke Jr.

IDAS Ltd. Woodenbridge Arklow, Co. Wicklow T: (0402) 36535 (P&F) M: (087) 7722166 C: Shane O’Kieffe E: steffen3@eircom.net Transferring To Goatsbridge C: Shane Daly

BC Shellfish Ltd. Unit 8, Carhan Lower, Reenrushen, Caherciveen, Co. Kerry M: (087) 9961311 T: 0033 645138789 M: 0033 546859785 / F 4887 E: t.page@gillardeau.fr v.nevo@gillardeau.fr C: Tracy Page

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Bells Isle Seafoods Ltd. Tullyearl, Laghy Co. Donegal T: (07497) 22791 T: (07497) 22770 M: (087) 6536781 E: valanddes@eircom.net C: Des Moore Bere Island Coop Community centre Bere Island Co. Cork M: (086) 1064363 M: (086) 8182457 E: cattapillas@gmail.com C: David Andrews, John Walsh Bia Mara Deise Teoranta 7 Bishopscourt Lawn Bishopstown Co. Cork T: (021) 4543563 M: (086) 8909329 E: sdeburca@indigo.ie E: cliona@eircom.net E: cliona@tinet.ie C: Sean Burke Blake Conor Pier Road, Rathmullan Co. Donegal T: (07491) 58368 M: (087) 6186334 C: Conor Blake Boet Mor Seafoods Ltd. Claddaghduff Clifden Co. Galway T: (095) 44698 M: (087) 2631641 E: kermor@eircom.net C: Jean Le Dorven Boyle John Ballymanus, Kincasslagh Co. Donegal C: John Boyle Carlingford Oyster Company Ltd. Mullatee Carlingford Co. Louth T: (042) 9373367 E: info@carlingfordoysterco.ie C: Kian Louet- Feisser Carrowholly Shellfish Ltd. Carrowhooly Westport Co. Mayo T: (098) 26376 M: (087) 2557938 E: carrowhollyshellfish@eircom.net C: George Golden Celtic Kerber Ltd. Rossleague Cobh Co. Cork M: (087) 4476786 T: (021) 4813983 E: rlouis@kerber.fr C: Remi Louis Charlie O’Malley Apt. 4 Kiln James St. Westport Co. Mayo M: (087) 2682036 C: Charlie O’Malley

Clarinbridge Oyster Co-operative Society Ltd. Cave, Clarenbridge Co. Galway T: (091) 796771 M: (087) 2581104 C: Michael Egan Coney Island Shellfish Ltd. The Lodge, Strandhill, Co. Sligo M: (087) 7489384 T: (07191) 68443 E: noelcartersligo@gmail.com C: Noel Carter Shannon Estuary Oysters Ltd. Kilmeena, Wesport Co. Mayo T: (098) 41328 T: (098) 41666/ 41772/ 41000 M: (087) 9971761 E: kgautier40@gmail.com W: connemaraseafoods.com C: Karl Gautier Coyne Anthony Derrylough, Renvyle Co. Galway T: (095) 43501 M: (087) 2700672 C: Anthony Coyne Criostoir Teo Knoickeen Power Ring, Dungarvan Co. Waterford M: (058) 46448 C: Criostoir Kinneally Croagh Patrick Seafoods Ltd. Roslaher, Newport Co. Mayo T: (098) 41142 M: (087) 2497570 E: padraic@croaghpatrick seafoods.ie C: Padraic Gannon Crocknagee Oysters Ltd. Roxtown, Clonmany Co. Donegal M: (086) 8868900 T: (07493) 76159 P/F T: (074) 9376303 E: crocknageeoysters@ hotmail.com C: Derek Diver Cromane Point Oysters Ltd. Cromane Lower Killorglin Co. Kerry T (066) 9769256 M: (087) 6937028 C: Gerald O’Reilly Cromane Seafoods Ltd. Cromane, Killorglin Co. Kerry T: (066) 9761563 M: (087) 2271221 C: Danny Sullivan CSV Shellfish Ltd. Main Street Ardara Co. Donegal M: (087) 6691648 E: csvshellfish@hotmail.com C: Steve Robins

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Daniel MacCarthy Cromane Lower Killorglin, Co. Kerry C: Daniel MacCarthy David Gallagher Oysters Ltd. Maghery, Dungloe Co. Donegal M: (087) 7541308 E: gallagherdavid23@yahoo.com C: David Gallagher De Burca Oysters Ltd. Prospect Hill Maree, Oranmore, Co. Galway T: (091) 794590 C: Michael John Burke Deise Premium Aquaculture Ltd. Ballyhack Arthurstown, New Ross Co. Wexford T: (051) 389349 M: (087) 2712150 E: dpa.limited@hotmail.com E: william_dwyer@hotmail.com C: William Dwyer Doherty Charlie Roshine South, Dungloe Co. Donegal T: (07495) 21815 C: Charlie Doherty Doherty Philip Slievebawn Malin Head Co. Donegal M: (086) 8727268 C: Philip Doherty Dolphin Seafarms Ltd. Muckinish East Bell Harbour Co. Clare T: (065) 6820616 M: (086) 6021705 C: Eamonn Chesser Donegal Oceandeep Oysters Ltd. Rossylongan, Donegal Town Co. Donegal T: (07497) 23042 (H) T: (07497 23331 M: (087) 6388843 E: donegaloysters@eircom.net C: Conor Reid Donegal Oysters Ltd. Rossylongan, Donegal Town Co. Donegal (07497) 40366 (087) 2845420 C: Damien Reid Dooriel Fisheries Ltd. Ballycroy, Westport Co. Mayo T: (098) 49244 M: (087) 2807959 E: shanejginty@gmail.com C: Shane Ginty Doorus Point Shellfish Ltd. Moy Road, Kinvara Co. Galway T: (091) 638233 M: (085) 8248847 E: dooruspointshellfish@ kinvara.com C: Thomas Connolly

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Douglas Strand Shellfish Ltd. Douglas, Killorglin Co. Kerry T: (066) 9761457 M: (087) 2662728 C: Pat Costelloe Duffy Anthony Carrick Carrigart, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal T: (074) 9155531 M: (083) 4693511 C: Anthony Duffy Dungarvan Shellfish Ltd. Hillcrest Gortnadiha, Ring Co. Waterford T: (058) 46120 T: (058) 46508 E: dsf-oysters@hotmail.com C: Ray Harty Emerald Oysters Ltd. Cave, Clarenbridge Co. Galway T: (091) 796771 M: (087) 2581104 C: Michael Egan Feirm Sliogeisc Mara Teoranta Ring, Dungarvan Co. Waterford M: (087) 6836035 C: Gabriel Kenneally Ferguson Shellfish Ltd. Ballagan, Greenore Co. Louth (042) 9373988 (042) 9373350 (087) 6486162 E: fergfish@hotmail.com C: Donal Ferguson Fitzpatrick Oysters Ltd. Tallaught Saltmills Co. Wexford T: (051) 562587 P/F M: (087) 6660829 C: Eugene Fitzpatrick Fota Oyster Farm Ltd. Rossleague, Cobh Co. Cork M: (087) 4476786 T: (021) 4813983 E: rlouis@kerber.fr C: Remi Louis Frank Dwyer Church Cross, Skibbereen, Co. Cork M: (086) 8390678 C: Frank Dwyer Frank McCarthy Lonart, Cromane Upper, Killorglin, Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769375 M: (087) 6432563 E: skippershaven@eircom.net C: Frank McCarthy Galway Shellfish Ltd. Beech Grove House Oranmore, Co. Galway M: (087) 6383787 E: Dbarth@localaccess.com C: Dan Barth

Garvey Brendan Claremount Clarecastle, Ennis, Co. Clare T: (065) 6891920 M: (086) 3840806 E: moandco.garvey@gmail.com C: Brendan Garvey Gavin Patrick Clynish Island Kilmenna, Westport, Co. Mayo T: (098) 26724 M: (087) 2339259 C: Patrick Gavin Gerard Groden Murrisk, Westport Co. Mayo M: (087) 6735392 C: Gerard Groden Green Oysters Ltd. Gilrain, Gortnadiha, Ring Co. Waterford T: (058) 46316 F: (058) 46508 M: (087) 3298714 E: Ray.harty@gmail.com C: Ray Harty Griffin-Reilly Group Cromane Lower Killorglin Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769235 M: (086) 6094346 C: John Joe Reilly Irish Premium Oysters Ltd. Tragheanna Bay Drinlaghdruid, Lettermacaward, Co. Donegal T: (07495) 22777 T: (075) 42637(H) M: (086) 6044478 E: info@ipo.ie E: biged@oceanfree.net C: Edward Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Gallachoir (jnr)

Henry Tom Belfarsad, Achill Sound Co. Mayo T: (098) 20852 M: (086) 3771648 E: orianadt@msn.com C: Tom Henry Heraghty Patrick & Shiels Michael Ballyar Kerrymeel P.O., Letterkenny, Co. Donegal T: (07491) 59629 M: (087) 2944071 M: 086) 8781081 C: Michael Shields Hook Head Shellfish Ltd. Ramstown, Fethard-on-Sea New Ross, Co. Wexford T: (051) 397492 M: (087) 6480109 M: (087) 6314913 E: hookheadshellfish@ hotmail.com C: Jodie Hickey Inis Sal Teo Maghery, Termon, Dungloe Co. Donegal T: (07495) 22820 M: (087) 9483266 C: John Doherty Irish Atlantic Shellfish Ltd. c/o Sea Lyons Seafood Pier Rd., Carrigaholt Co. Clare T: (065) 9058321 T: (065) 9058322 M: (087) 6149539 E: info@sealyons.ie C: James Lyons Irish Oysters Harvest Ltd. c/o John Thornton, Cllona Westport, Co. Mayo M: (087) 9136721 C: John Thornton

Haran Sean Raughley Cloughboley Co. Sligo T: (07191) 63622 C: Sean Haran

James Ball Middletown Malin Head Co. Donegal M: (086) 8678476 E: JamesBall52@yahoo.com C: James Ball

Harty Jimmy Ballinacurry Ring, Dungarvan Co. Waterford T: (058) 46215 E: tadhg@nemeton.ie C: James Harty

Jasconius Ltd. New Quay, Burrin Co. Clare T: (065) 7078189 M: (087) 9772069 E: iarfhlaithconnellan@gmail.com C: Iarlaith Connellan

Haven Shellfish Ltd. Ballinaclashet Oysterhaven Co. Cork T: (021) 4770664 M: (087) 2557429 E: havenshellfish@eircom.net C: Jamie Dwyer

Jean-Yves Letanneur Tahilla, Sneem Co. Kerry M: (086) 3603634 C: Jean-Yves Letanneur

Hayes Aquaculture Ltd. Tochar, Cromane Killorglin, Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769516 M: (087) 9366742 E: tocharhayes@eircom.net C: Thomas Hayes

Jeremiah Costelloe Lonhort, Killorglin Co. Kerry M: (087) 7696731 C: Pat Costelloe John Comiskey Urrismana, Clonmany Co. Donegal C: John Comiskey

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Keanes Seafood Ltd. Prospect Maree, Oranmore, Co. Galway T: (091) 794255 M: (087) 2623712 E: diarmuidjameskeane1@ eircom.net C: Diarmuid Keane Keenan Oysters Ltd. The Harbour, Carlingford Lough Co. Louth T: (04293) 73306 M: (086) 3691222 E: tomkeenan49@yahoo.co.uk C: Tom Keenan Kevin Morrin Mountbrown Westport, Co. Mayo M: (087)8112193 C: Kevin Morrin Kilbane Michael/Gerard Dooagh, Achill Island Co. Mayo T: (098) 43969 M: (086) 2200165 C: Michael Kilbane Kinsale Ltd. Ballynaclaset Creek Oysterhaven, Co. Cork T: 003354 6476298 E: tracy.page@gillardeau.fr v.nevo@gillardeau.fr pkc.oysterfarm@gmail.com C: Tracy Page Kinsale Seafoods Ltd. Whispering Pines Cappagh, Kinsale, Co. Cork T: (021) 4772264 E: tracy.page@gillardeau.fr v.nevo@gillardeau.fr C: Tracy Page KOS Ltd. Ballynaclaset Creek Oysterhaven, Co. Cork T: 003354 6476298 T: 0033 546859785 / F 4887 E: tracy.page@gillardeau.fr v.nevo@gillardeau.fr C: Tracy Page Krause Daniel & Rainer Dungora Kinvara Co. Galway T: (091) 637104 T: (091) 637232 C: Rainer Krause

Lyons Gearoid c/o Sea Lyons Seafood Pier Rd. Carrigaholt, Co. Clare T: (065) 9058222 E: info@sealyons.ie C: Gearoid Lyons Malin Head Oysters Ltd. Sheskin Bree Malin Head Co. Donegal M: (086) 8625984 E: malinheadoystersltd@ gmail.com C: Billy Coffee Mannin Bay Oysters Ltd. Derrygimla Ballyconneely Co. Galway T: (095) 23640 M: (087) 0969730 C: Josie King Maree Oysters Ltd. Maree Clarinbridge Co. Galway T: (091) 790525 M: (087) 6184182 C: Jimmy Killilea Martin Riordan Tullig Cross Killorglin Co. Kerry C: Martin Riordan Matt Burke Fahy Westport Co. Mayo T: (098) 41343 M: (087) 2489101 E: maitiasburke@gmail.com C: Matt Burke Mattie Larkin Killeenaran Kilcolgan Co. Galway E: Mattie Larkin McDermott, Danny Balleighan East Greencastle Co. Donegal T: (07493) 81242 M: (086) 8053693 M: (086) 8053693 E: shonadanny@hotmail.com C: Danny McDermott

McGrath Tony Pulothomas Ballina, Co. Mayo T: (097) 845366 M: (087) 2220622 E: mcgrathfish1@eircom.net C: Tony McGrath McHugh Charles & Gavigan Vincent Leconell Ard na Ratha, Loughras Beg, Co. Donegal T: (07495) 41574 M: (087) 9857461 C: Charles McHugh or Packie McHugh McKeown Martin Rehy East, Cross, Co. Clare C: Martin Mc Keown McLoughlin Michael & Eunan Keenaglug Carndonagh Co. Donegal T: (07493) 74317 M: (087) 2150460 M: (087) 6035549 E: keenaglug@gmail.com C: Michael McLoughlin McMahon Michael Ballynote East Kilrush, Co. Clare T: (065) 9052571 M: (087) 2605796 C: Michael McMahon McManamon John Sandyhill, Carrowbeg, Tiernaur, Newport, Co. Mayo T: (098) 36020/36275 M: (086) 8411069 C: John McManamon McNulty Gerard Martin Knockloughra Newport, Co. Mayo M: (087) 2920281 E: GerardPMcNulty@eircom.net C: Gerard McNulty Michael John Harty Tawin, Oranmore Co. Galway M: (087) 6888442 C: Gary Harty Michael Kelly Shellfish Ltd. Aishling, Tyrone, Kilcolgan Co. Galway T: (091) 796120 C: Diarmuid Kelly

L&G O’Connor Tullig Beg Cromane, Killorglin, Co. Kerry M: (087) 2935960 E: pauline039connor@yahoo.ie C: Liam O’Connor

McDermott, Danny Balleighan East Greencastle Co. Donegal T: (07493) 81242 M: (086) 8053693 M: (086) 8053693 E: shonadanny@hotmail.com C: Danny McDermott

Moroney Michael Glosha, Cromane, Killorglin, Co. Kerry T: (066) 9769256 M: (087) 6439603 C: Michael Moroney

Langley Feargal Sheshia Bell Harbour Co. Clare T: (065) 7078146 M: (087) 9787033 E: feargal.langley@gmail.com C: Feargal Langley

McGlinchy Alan Kiltown Killygordon Co. Donegal T: (074) 49378 M: (086) 8163553 E: mcglincheyalan@gmail.com C: Alan McGlinchy

Moyasta Shellfish Ltd. Moyasta, Kilrush Co. Clare T: (065) 9051965 T: (065) 6764406 M: (087) 6613097 E: galvinthomas@gmail.com C: Thomas Galvin

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Munnelly John Ross, Killala Co. Mayo T: (096) 32056 M: (087) 2858358 C: John Munnelly Murray Denis & McSweeney James G Roshine Acres Burtonport, Co. Donegal T: (07495) 42962 E: murraydenis@eircom.net C: Denis Murray North Shore Oysters Ltd. Ballyliffen, Clonmany Co. Donegal (074) 9376433 (086) 6057819 E: jim@nsoysters.com C: Jim Walsh O’ Malley Michael Cleggan, Co. Galway T: (095) 44702 M: (087) 2852460 E: o’malleysf@gmail.com C: Michael O’Malley O’Maoileain Tadhg Cnocan an Phaoraigh Uachtarach An Rinn, Dungarbhan Co. Phortlairge T: (058) 46499 (087) 8132235(W) M: (058) 46599(H) F: (058) 46208 E: tadhg@nemeton.ie C: Tadhg O’Maoileoin Oceanic Organic Oysters Ltd. Harbour view Greencastle, Co. Donegal T: (07493) 81134 M: (086) 3331906 C: John McKinney O’Mahony Alan Moveen West Kilkee, Co. Clare C: Alan O’Mahony Omey Oyster Company Ltd. Claddaghduff Clifden Co. Galway T: (095) 44022 C: Richard West Ostrea-an Ltd. An Sean Teach Gweedore Road, Dungloe, Co. Donegal T: (07495) 22268 T: (07495) 21183 M: (086) 8404945 E: monaghanjp@eircom.net C: John P. Monaghan Oysters for Suir Ltd. The Mount, Cheekpoint Co. Waterford T: (051) 382293 T: (051) 382672 C: Pat Moran Patrick T O’Sullivan Cromane Lower Killorglin, Co. Kerry M: (087) 2198157 E: patricktosullivan@live.co.uk C: Patrick T. O’Sullivan

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Paul Bennet Commons Road Dunmore East Co. Waterford T: (051) 383173 M: (087) 6383381 C: Paul & Tony Bennett

Racoo Shellfish Ltd. Tullyearl Donegal Town Co. Donegal M: (087) 2206696 E: racooshellfish@gmail.com C: William Brittan

PKA Ltd. Ring, Dungarvan Co. Waterford T: (058) 44617 M: (087) 6998565 T: 0033 546850384 E: tracy.page@gillardeau.fr v.nevo@gillardeau.fr C: Tracy Page

Rosmoney Shellfish Ltd. Rosmoney Westport Co. Mayo F: (098) 25843 E: rsl@eircom.net C: Stephen Fitzgerald

PKB Ltd. Unit 1, Alexander Place, Tonyhabboc, Newtowncunningham, Co. Donegal T: 0033 546858433 M: (086) 1580338 M: 0033 546859785 / F 4887 E: tracy.page@gillardeau C: Tracy Page PKC Ltd. Ballynaclaset Creek Oysterhaven Co. Cork T: 0033 64 5138789 M: (086) 1580338 T: 0033 546859785 / F 4887 E: tracy.page@gillardeau.fr v.nevo@gillardeau.fr C: Tracy Page PKC Ltd. Ballynaclaset Creek Oysterhaven Co. Cork T: 0033 64 5138789 M: (086) 1580338 T: 0033 546859785 / F 4887 E: tracy.page@gillardeau.fr v.nevo@gillardeau.fr C: Tracy Page PKM Ltd. Killala Co. Mayo T: 0033 546859785 E: t.page@gillardeau.fr C: Tracy Page PKO Ltd. Cromane Killorglin Co. Kerry 003354 6476298 E: tracy.page@gillardeau.fr v.nevo@gillardeau.fr C: Tracy Page Poulnasherry Oysters Ltd. Breaffa Kilkee Co. Clare T: (065) 9058245 T: (086) 8579472 E: mhsheehy09@gmail.com C: Hugh Sheehy Quay Oyster Company Ltd. Ballinacourty Clarinbridge Co. Galway T: (091) 794724 C: John Kelly

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Saul Joyce (Formerly Ardagh Oysters Ltd).

Claddaghduff Clifden Co. Galway T: (095) 44890 M: (087) 1267715 C: Saul Joyce SBB Shellfish Ltd. 3 Duffs Turn, Danes Castle Carrig-on-Barrow Co. Wexford T: (051) 561291 T: 0033 607436241 M: (086) 0622542 E: sbs.bannowbay@gmail.com an.pascal@orange.fr C: Anthony Neveu Scannell Michael Douglas Killorglin Co. Kerry T: (066) 9761614 M: (087) 7632453 E: michaelscannell@eircom.net C: Michael Scannell Sciana Mara Teoranta Bothar na Scoile Duacha, Achill, Co. Mayo T: (098) 43317 M: (087) 2495433 E: jjmcnamara30@gmail.com C: John J. Mc Namara Sea Lyons Seafood Ltd. Pier Rd. Carrigaholt, Co. Clare M: (087) 6149537 C: James Lyons Seacrest Seafoods Ltd. Seacrest, Derry Rd Moville Co. Donegal M: (086) 2889079 E: seacrestseafoods@gmail.com C: Liam McGuinness Seagardens Ltd. 2 Fairy Hill Monkstown Co. Cork T: (021) 4841837 M: (087) 2456074 C: Jean Paul Mestre Seamus O’Hayes Ballinagaul An Rinn, Dungarbhan Co. Waterford C: Seamus O’Hayes

Sean O’Grady Murrisknaboll Murrisk, Westport, Co. Mayo M: (087) 9882522 T: (098) 64854 E: murriskshellfish@eircom.net C: Sean O’Grady

Teahan Partnership Cromane Lower Killorglin, Co. Kerry M: (087) 2654681 T: (066) 9769357 T: (066) 9769504 E: teahanpartners@gmail.com C: Michael Teahan

Shannon Shellfish Ltd. 103 Ballymacool Wood Letterkenny Co. Donegal M: (087) 0699437 E: irelandshellfish@gmail.com C: Alan O’Sullivan

Thomas Bluinne Station House Kilrush, Co. Clare T: (065) 9052275 M: (087) 7604230 C: Tom Bluinne

Sherkin Oysters Ltd. Sherkin Island, Baltimore, Skibbereen, Co. Cork T: (028) 20187 M: (087) 2029898 E: sherkinmarine@eircom.net C: Michael Murphy Skibbereen Shellfish Ltd. 3 Harbour row, Ring Road, Cobh Co. Cork T: (021) 4813565 T: 0033 682881791 E: noel.keane35@eircom.net baie-isigny@wannadoo.fr C: Damien Perdriel Sliogeisc Ba Tragheanna Teo. Terahallion Termon, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal T: (07491) 39943 M: (086) 8460933 C: Eamon McCahill Sliogeisc Gaoth Beara Teoranta Ballykilduff Portnoo, Co. Donegal T: (07495) 45281 M: (087) 9488044 C: Paddy Boyle Sliogiasc Inisheane Teo. Magherty Dungloe Co. Donegal M: (086) 8375430 T: (07495) 21457 C: Conal Hunter Sofi Shellfish Ltd. Knockmany Newport Co. Mayo T: (098) 36978 M: (087) 3286283 T: (098) 36978 H E: sofishellfish@googlemail.com C: Nicolas Tessier Sweeney Eamon & Corbett Seamus Corner House Gweedore Co. Donegal T: (075) 31453 M: (087) 2029909 C: Corbett Seamus Sweeney Frank Saile Achill Co. Mayo M: (098) 45333 C: Frank Sweeney

Tighe Peter 1 Glenmore Grove Ballinorig Road, Tralee, Co. Kerry T: (066) 7129613 M: (087) 7870034 E: petermtighe@eircom.net C: Peter Tighe Treanbeg Shellfish Ltd. Treanbeg Newport, Co. Mayo M: (087) 9873030 E: fergal@treanbeg.com C: Fergal Guilfoyle Utterly Oysters Ltd. Rossleague Cobh, Co. Cork T: (021) 4813983 M: (086) 2656509 T: (021) 4813120 E: killiant@iol.ie C: Killian Tighe Walsh Philip Ballyvoreen Rosstuss, Woodstown Co. Waterford T: (051) 382036 M: (087) 4120291 E: philipwalshoysterfarmer@ gmail.com C: Philip Walsh Waterford Oysters Ltd. New Line Abbeyside, Dungarvan Co. Waterford T: (058) 42320 M: (086) 3546062 C: Pat Cullen West Bank Oysters Ltd. 4 Mount Avenue Cheekpoint Co. Waterford T: (051) 380843 M: (087) 2125997 C: Anthony Fortune Wild Atlantic Shellfish Ltd. Old Farm Buildings Lissadell, Co. Sligo T: (07191) 42990 M: (087) 6739051 E: charlesk@gofree.indigo.ie C: Charles Kelly Woodstown Bay Shellfish Ltd. The Harbour, Dunmore East Co. Waterford T: (051) 385405 M: (087) 2565549 E: naomi@wbsglobal.com C: Paul Barlow

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Hatchery Gigas Boet Mor Seafoods Ltd. Claddaghduff Clifden, Co. Galway T: (095) 44698 M: (087) 2631641 E: kermor@eircom.net C: Jean Le Dorven Cartron Point Shellfish Ltd. New Quay, Burrin Co. Clare T: (065) 7078189 M: (087) 9772069 E: iarfhlaithconnellan@gmail.com C: Iarlaith Connellan Lissadell Shellfish Co. Ltd. Lissadell, Sligo Town Co. Sligo T: (07191) 63563 T: (07191) 41313 M: (086) 8313123 E: jkokelly@eircom.net C: Kevin O’Kelly Tralee Bay Hatchery Ltd. The Ponds, Kilshannig, Castlegregory, Co. Kerry T: (066) 7136811 F: (066) 7136811 M: (087) 2599237 E: dnsoshea@yahoo.co.uk C: Denis O’Shea

Native Oyster Atlantic Shellfish Ltd. Rossmore, Carrigtohill Co. Cork T: (021) 4883248 T: 0044 1736810867 E: tristan@oysters.co.uk C: Tristan Hugh-Jones Clarinbridge Oyster Co-operative Society Ltd. Cave, Clarenbridge Co. Galway T: (091) 796771 M: (087) 2581104 C: Michael Egan Clew Bay Oyster Cooperative The Boathouse, The Quay, Newport, Co. Mayo.

(087) 9882522 E: murriskshellfish@eircom.net C: Sean O’Grady Comharchumann Sliogeisc Chonamara Teo. Tir Ni Lettermore Co. Galway T: (095) 33489 M: (087) 0699437 M: (087) 2267511 E: osullivanshellfish@hotmail.com C: Alan O’Sullivan Lough Foyle Oysters Coop.

Whiskey Rock Ltd The Quay, Moville, Co. Donegal C: Liam Farren, (Barry Fox Loughs Agency)

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Lough Swilly Wild Oyster Society Ltd. St Johnston, Lifford Co. Donegal T: (07491) 48286 M: (086) 3186845 C: Alec Carlan Malin Head Fishermen’s Cooperative Society Ltd. Malin Head, Inishowen Co. Donegal T: (07493) 70240 M: (086) 2694320 C: Charles O’Donnell Michael Kelly Shellfish Ltd. Tyrone, Kilcolgan Co. Galway M: (091) 796120 C: Diarmuid Kelly North Mayo Oyster Development Cooperative Society Ltd. Tallagh, Belmullet Co. Mayo M: (087) 6926919 E: otoole.eddie@yahoo.com C: Eddie O’Toole Tralee Oyster Fishermen’s Society Ltd. The Pier, Fenit Tralee, Co. Kerry T: (066) 7136811 F: (066) 7136811 M: (087) 2599237 E: dnsoshea@yahoo.co.uk C: Denis O’Shea

Perch Clune Fisheries Ltd. Clune Clonoulty, Cashel, Co. Tipperary M: (087) 6992825 E: philipfryday1@yahoo.ie C: Philip Fryday Keywater Fisheries Ltd. Caradeen, Maple Drive Boyle Co. Roscommon T: (071) 9662692 M: (087) 9957613 E: paulgkearney@eircom.net C: Mr Paul Kearney

Rope Mussel Adrigole Mussels Ltd. Bawn Adrigole, Beara Co. Cork T: (027) 60030 M: (086) 8196625 C: Daniel O’Shea Ardgroom Shellfish Ltd. Inward Ardgroom, Beara, Co. Cork T: (027) 74369 T: (027) 74220 M: (087) 2408366 E: ardgroomshellfishltd7@ eircom.net C: John Gerard Sullivan

Atlantic Seafarms Ltd. Hollyhill, Aughadown, Skibbereen Co. Cork T: (028) 38429 H T: (01) 8900919 M: (087) 2134623 E: sean.collins@abmeurope.com C: Sean Collins Bantry Harbour Mussels Ltd. Gurteen Bantry, Co. Cork T: (027) 51199 M: (085) 1729177 E: finianos@eircom.net C: Finian O’Sullivan Belenos Seafoods Ltd. Kilsallagh Westport, Co. Mayo T: (098) 66177 M: (087) 2376700 C: John Kilcoyne Black Pearl Shellfish Ltd. Lettergesh East Renvyle Co. Galway T: (095) 43525 M: (087) 2074738 C: Kieran Kane Blackshell Farm Ltd. Unit 15, Westport Industrial Park, Newport Road, Westport Co. Mayo T: (098) 50879 M: (087) 6875164 E: blackshell@eircom.net C: Michael Mulloy Cormorant Mussel Ltd. 25 The Meadows Glassis Lake, Ovens, Co. Cork T: (021) 4872703 M: (087) 2784819 E: cormorantm@eircom.net C: William Murphy Courtney Richard Gurteenalomane Skibbereen Co. Cork T: (028) 21382 M: (086) 2306961 C: Richard Courtney Crowley Michael Ardralla, Church Cross, Skibbereen Co. Cork T: (028) 38830 M: (086) 2681278 C: Michael Crowley Crusa Teo 3 Castlehill Park Turlough Road, Castlebar, Co. Mayo T: (094) 23017 M: (085) 1127201 C: Danny Mc Nulty Dolphin Seafarms Ltd. Muckinish East Bell Harbour, Co. Clare T: (065) 6820616 M: (086) 6021705 C: Eamon Chesser

Duggan Raymond Kilkilleen Church Cross, Skibbereen, Co. Cork T: (028) 38281 M: (086) 8798942 C: Raymond Duggan Dunmanus Bay Mussels Ltd. Coomhola Bantry Co. Cork T: (027) 54153 M: (086) 2782434 E: brianmurnaneplant@eircom.net C: Brian Murnane Eddie Nee Snr. Feenone Louisburgh Co. Mayo T: (098) 68662 M: (087) 7410859 T: (095) 42110 C: Eddie Nee (snr) Fastnet Mussels Ltd. Gearhies Bantry Co. Cork (027) 61276 (086) 2440573 E: noel@murphysirish.ie E: john@murphysirish.ie E: jennifer@murphysirish.ie C: John Murphy Fundy Shellfish Ltd. Dunbeacon Durrus Co Cork T: (027) 61254 T: (027) 51748 M: (086) 1661943 C: John Hutchinson G&B Barge Ltd. Ballinakilla Bere Island Co. Cork T: (027) 75018 M: (086) 8350820 E: b-jsullivan@hotmail.com C: Brendan Sullivan Greenline Shellfish Ltd. Sherkin Island Skibbereen Co. Cork M: (086) 8304231 T: (028) 20287 E: minnaloushe7@gmail.com C: Richard Collins Hanley Paddy Pouleen Ardgroom, Beara, Co. Cork T: (027) 74232 C: Paddy Hanley Hourican Denis Contact David Millard Glengarriff, Bantry, Co. Cork T: (027) 71238 (658) M: (086) 3353618 C: Denis Hourican

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Iasc Sliogach Uisce Leathan Teo. Cashel Kindrum P.O., Letterkenny, Co. Donegal T: (074) 9159259 M: (086) 8041451 martincollcashel@eircom.net C: Martin Coll Jean-Yves Letanneur Tahilla, Sneem Co. Kerry M: (086) 3623634 C: Jean Yves Letanneur John Coyne Glassilaun, Renvyle Co. Galway C: John Coyne Kelly Paul 18 Henry Street Kenmare, Co. Kerry T: (064) 6684513 T: (064) 6642590 E: info@pfk.ie; pfkelly@indigo.ie C: Paul Kelly Kenmare Bay Seafood Ltd. Drombohilly Tousist, Co. Kerry T: (064)66 84289 C: Carl Daly

Kush Seafarms Ltd. O’Shea’s House New Road, Kenmare Co. Kerry T: (064) 6641714 F: (064) 6641751(F) M: (087) 2313395 E: info@kush.ie C: Jose Perez Leonard Patrick J. 7 Donegal West Reengaroga, Baltimore, Co. Cork T: (028) 38293 M: (086) 8818266 C: Patrick Leonard Liam &Michael Laffey Lettergesh East Renvyle Co. Galway T: (095) 42208 M: (086) 8222447 C: Liam Laffey Lydon Pat Lettergesh West Renvyle Co. Galway T: (095) 43429 M: (087) 3776350 C: Pat Lydon

Killary Fish Farming Co-operative Soc. Ltd. Kilsallagh Westport Co. Mayo C: John Kilcoyne

Lyons Kieran Eyeries, Beara Co Cork T: (027) 74296 M: (086) 3637784 E: kieranlyons510@gmail.com C: Kieran Lyons

Killary Fish Farming Co-operative Soc. Ltd. Feenone Carrowniskey P.O., Westport Co. Mayo T: (098) 68662 M: (087) 7410859 T: (095) 42394 C: Eddie Nee (Jr.)

Mannin Seafoods Ltd. Church Cross Skibbereen Co. Cork T: (028) 38290 T: (028) 38016 M: (085) 1141574 C: Michael O’Neill

Killary Fjord Shellfish Ltd. Bunowen, Leenane Co. Galway M: (087) 6227542 E: kfsltd@eircom.net C: Simon C. Kennedy Killary Harvest Ltd. Cluggam Maam Co. Galway T: (094) 9548918 M: (087) 6783725 E: kevlydon@eircom.net C: Kevin Lydon Killary Shellfish Ltd. Rossadillisk Woodlands, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford T: (095) 43468 M: (087) 9861105 C: Brendan Nee Krause Rainer& David &Brian Dungora Kinvara Co. Galway T: (091) 637104 T: (091) 637232 C: Rainer Krause

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Martin Nee Bundorraghy Leenane Co. Galway C: Martin Nee McDonagh Colman Na Fabhrai Maoile Barna Co. Galway C: Coleman McDonagh McIlwaine Shellfish Ltd. Woodquarter, Cranford, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal T: (07491) 53268 T: (07491) 53806 M: (087) 2390285 E: hectormcilwaine@eircom.net C: Hector McIlwaine Michael Casey c/o Casey’s Cabin Baltimore Co. Cork T: (028) 20197 T: (028) 20427 M: (085) 8016626 E: info@caseysofbaltimore.com C: Michael Casey

Michael Lydon Cleggaun Maam Co. Galway C: Michael Lydon Mulroy Bay Mussels Ltd. Drim Cranford Co. Donegal T: (07491) 53478 T: (07491) 53260 M: (087) 2935854 E: mulroybaymussels@ireland.com C: Hugh Wilhare Murphy Daniel Glenvale Lodge Mardyke, Skibbereen, Co. Cork T: (028) 22001 M: (086) 8887799 C: Daniel Murphy Murphy Patrick Lissygriffin Goleen Co. Cork T: (028) 35170 M: (086) 8569301 C: Patrick Murphy Muskerry Seafoods (Kerry) Ltd. Kilquane Hedford, Killarney, Co. Kerry T: (064) 7750476 M: (087) 4140837 E: muskerryseafood@gmail.com C: Finbar & Eileen Daly Natura Mussels Ltd. PO. Box 109 Dunkineely Co. Donegal M: (087) 6013798 E: tb.natura@live.fr E: an.pascal@orange.fr C: Anthony Neven Nunan Mussels Ltd. Coorigcoomade Ballylickey, Bantry Co. Cork T: (027) 51484 M: (086) 0619841 E: hollandjm@eircom.net C: John M. Holland O’Malley Jim Mainstreet Louisburgh Co. Mayo M: (087) 6854886 C: Jim O’Malley O’Malley Michael Cleggan Co. Galway Co. Galway T: (095) 44702 M: (087) 2852460 E: o’malleysf@gmail.com C: Michael O’Malley O’Shea John Cleandra Ardgroom Co. Cork T: (027) 74473 M: (086) 8328288 C: John O’Shea

O’Malley Bartley Loughta Louisburgh Co Mayo T: (098) 66281 M: (087) 9242126 C: Bartley O’Malley On-Line Mussels Ltd. Lettergesh West Renvyle Co. Galway T: (095) 43418 M: (086) 3776350 M: (087) 9173800 C: Ciaran Coyne & Pat Lydon Organic Shellfish Ltd. Lissyclearig Ullen Kenmare Co. Kerry T: (064) 6641540 M: (087) 0692077 C: Paddy V. Cronin Pallas Fish Farm Ltd. 110 Rathfarnham Wood Rathfarnham Dublin 4 M: (086) 3770599 T: (01) 4946783 M: (086) 3770599 Donal M: (087) 9484020 John O’Reilly E: john.oreilly4076@hotmail.com C: Donal O’Reilly Purple Spade Ltd. Lettergesh West Renvyle Co. Galway T: (095) 43814 M: (086) 6078508 E: cathsitch@eircom.net C: Martin Nee Roaring Water Bay Seafarms Ltd. Ballylinch Baltimore Co. Cork T: (028) 20447 M: (086) 2483863 E: colinwhooley@hotmail.com E: colinwhooley@rwb.ie C: Colin Whooley Rodeen Fish Farm Ltd. Droum South Castletownbere Co. Cork M: (087) 9456047 E: ryangdm@gmail.com C: Ryan Murphy Ross Shelfish Ltd. 1 Reenkilla Lauragh Co. Kerry T: (064) 6683171 M: (087) 2508803 E: book@seafari.ie C: Ray Ross Saltspray Mussels Ltd.(Dunmanus Mussels Ltd.) Coomhola Bantry Co. Cork T: (027) 54153 M: (086) 2782434 E: brianmurnaneplant@eircom.net C: Brian Murnane

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Seal Harbour Enterprises Ltd. Seal Harbour Glengarriff, Bantry, Co. Cork T: (027) 63085 T: (027) 63878(F) M: (087)2599002 E: tgreen3@eircom.net C: Tim Green Shamrock Shellfish Ltd. Limestone Hse., Killowen Kenmare Co. Kerry T: (064) 6642200 M: (087) 2592209 E: shamrockshellfish@eircom.net C: Sean Mc Carthy Sneem Fishermen’s Cooperative Society Ltd. Tahilla, Sneem Co. Kerry T: (064) 6645270 M: (086) 3623634 E: jyletanneur@outlook.com C: Jean Yves Letanneur Southward Ltd. Church Rd. Bantry Co. Cork T: (027) 52689 M: (086)6073569 E: bcosullivan@eircom.net C: Brendan O’Sullivan Spellman Brian Cluggam, Maam Co. Galway T: (092) 48424 C: Brian Spellman Turk Head Enterprises Ltd. Collatrum Church Cross, Skibbereen, Co. Cork T: (028) 38173 T: (028) 38483 M: (086) 2606473 C: Stephen Casey Westpoint Shellfish Ltd. Ardgroom Beara, Co. Cork T: (027) 74286 M: (086) 3845377 E: westpoint7@eircom.net C: Gerard Lynch

Salmon Ongrown Bifand Marine Ltd. Errislannan Clifden Co. Galway T: (095) 21262 T: (095) 21773 M: (087) 6165860 E: mansal@eircom.net C: Gerry O’Donoghue Bradan Beo Teo. Leitirmeallan Connemara Co. Galway T: (091) 551365 M: (087) 6328941 E: Bobby@bradanbeo.ie C: Bobby Kerr

Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland

Marine Harvest (Irl.) Ltd. Cashel PO, Kindrum, Letterkenny Co. Donegal T: (07491) 59805 T: (07491) 59071 E: Catherine.McManus@ marineharvest.com C: Catherine McManus Mannin Bay Salmon Co. Ltd. Errislannan Clifden Co. Galway T: (095) 21262 T: (095) 21773 M: (087) 6165860 E: mansal@eircom.net C: Gerry O’Donoghue Murphy’s Irish Seafoods Ltd. Gearahies Bantry Co. Cork T: (027) 61276 T: (027) 61264 E: nuala@murphysirish.ie E: info@fastnetmussels.com C: John Murphy Ocean Farm Ltd. Donegal Road Killybegs Co. Donegal T: (07497) 31004 F: (07497) 31509 E: paul@gallagherbros.ie C: Paul McCrudden

Scallop Comharchumann Sliogeisc Chonamara Teo. Tir Ni Lettermore Co. Galway T: (095) 33489 M: (087) 0699437 M: (087) 2267511 E: osullivanshellfish@hotmail.com C: Alan O’Sullivan Niall O’Boyle Knockbreaga Newport Co. Mayo T: (098) 41616 M: (087) 2255440 C: Niall O’Boyle North West Shellfish Ltd. Upper Carrick Carrigart, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal T: (07491 ) 55195 M: (086) 8092246 E: northwestshellfish@eircom.net C: Jerry Gallagher Sneem Fishermen’s Cooperative Society Ltd. Tahilla Sneem Co. Kerry T: (064) 6645270 M: (086) 3623634 E: jyletanneur@outlook.com C: Jean-Yves Letanneur

Valentia Harbour Fisheries Society Ltd. Knightstown Valentia Island Co. Kerry T: (066) 9476263 M: (087) 2390015 C: Peader Houlihan Whiddy Island Scallops Ltd. 72 Reenrour East Bantry Co. Cork (086) 1936247 E: aolearyjoker@hotmail.com C: Danny O’Leary

Sea Reared trout Curraun Blue Ltd. Doughill Mulranny, Westport, Co. Mayo T: (098) 36174 M: (087) 2858758 E: curraunblue@eircom.net C: Tom Doherty Jr

Seaweed Dingle Bay Seaweed Ltd. Cluais Dingle Co. Kerry M: (086) 2607991 M: (087) 2389998 C: Mike Murphy

Inland Fisheries Ireland Ltd. Cong Salmon Hatchery Cong Co. Galway T: (094) 9546049 P&F M: (087) 9100534 M: (087) 9911206 E: matt.varley@fisheriesireland.ie C: Matt Varley Marine Harvest (Irl.) Ltd. Cashel PO Letterkenny Co. Donegal T: (07491) 92105 T: (07491) 59805 T: (07491) 59071 E: Catherine.McManus@ marineharvest.com C: Catherine McManus Marine Institute Salmon Mangment Division Furnace Newport Co. Mayo T: (098) 41112 T: (098) 41705 E: Deirdre.cotter@marine.ie C: Deirdre Cotter Millbrook Hatcheries Ltd. Trentagh Letterkenny, Co. Donegal T: (07491) 37474 F: (07491) 37474 M: (086) 8269750 E: millbrooksalmon@gmail.com C: John O’Boyle

Turk Head Enterprises Ltd. Cunnamore Point Skibbereen Co. Cork T: (028) 38173 T: (028) 38483 M: (086) 2606473 C: Stephen Casey

Murphy’s Irish Seafoods Ltd. Gearahies Bantry Co. Cork T: (027) 61276 T: (027) 61264 E: nuala@murphysirish.ie E: info@fastnetmussels.com C: John Murphy

Salmon Hatcheries

SalmoSalmon Springs Ltd Galway Aquatic Enterprises Ltd, Bunatober Corrandulla Co. Galway T: (091) 791303 E: stofnfiskur@eircom.net C: Peter McGovern

Bifand Ltd. Errislannan Clifden Co. Galway T: (095) 21262 T: (095) 21773 M: (087) 6165860 E: mansal@eircom.net C: Gerry O’Donoghue Douglas Valley Hatchery Ltd. Kilclough Kilworth Co. Cork T: (025) 27337 M: (086) 3162397 T: (025) 27635 E: mjwdvh@gmail.com C: Michael Walsh Derrylea Holdings Ltd. 2 Railway Avenue Clifden Co. Galway T: (091) 574004 M: (087) 2405045 E: derryleaholdings@yahoo.ie C: Paul Sommerville

Santa Cruise Salmon Ltd. Carrigahorig Nenagh Co. Tipperary T: (09097) 47122 M: (087) 6890301 E: petergibbs.santacruise@ gmail.com C: Peter Gibbs

Urchin Dunmanus Seafoods Ltd. Durrus Bantry Co. Cork T: (028) 35500 M: (087) 2335857 E: seaurchins@eircom.net C: John Chamberlain

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Fish Processors T: - Telphone

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Albatross Seafoods Ltd Carricknamohill, Killybegs, Co. Donegal E: albatrossseafoods@eircom.net T: +353 74 9731674 W: www.albatrossseafoods.ie C: John Boyle

Castletownbere Fishermen’s Co-op Society Ltd. Dinish Island, Castletownbere, Co. Cork E: donal@ctbfishcoop.eu T: +353 27 70045 C: John Nolan

Allen Seafoods Old Court Lane, Tallaght, Co. Dublin 24 E: davidcarroll_oldcourtentr @yahoo.com T: +353 86 1094873 C: Dave Carroll

Cavistons Food Emporium/Seatang Ltd. 59 Glasthule Road, Glasthule, Co. Dublin E: info@cavistons.com T: +353 2809120 W: www.cavistons.com C: Peter Caviston

Araglen Valley Trout Farm Araglen, Kilworth, Co. Cork E: araglenvalleytrout@eircom.net T: +353 58 50049 C: John Hayden Atlantis Seafoods Wexford Ltd Unit F1 Strandfield Business Park, Rosslare Road, Co. Wexford E: sales@atlantis.ie T: +353 53 9123309 W: www.atlantis.ie C: John Kenny/Mark O’Connor Ballybay Perch Ltd. Corkeeran, Ballybay, Co. Monaghan E: Ballybayperch@hotmail.com T: +353 42 9756907 W: www.Ballybayperch.com

Clarke Fish Exports Ltd. O’Rahilly and Connolly Streets, Ballina, Co. Mayo E: info@clarkes.ie T: +353 96 21022 W: www.clarkes.ie C: Kevin Clarke Clogherhead Fishermans Co-op Port Oriel, Clogherhead, Co. Louth E: paulboyd@cloghercoop.com T: +353 41 9881403 C: Paul Boyd Coastguard Seafoods Ltd. Harbour Road, Annagassan, Co. Louth T: +353 42 9372527 C: Terry Butterly

Ballycarbery Fine Foods Unit 4, Caherciveen Business Park, Caherciveen, Co. Kerry E: info@ballycarberyfinefoods.com T: +353 66 9473974 W: www.ballycarberyfinefoods.com C: Darina Healy/Linda Macauley

Connemara Fisheries Ltd. Cornamona, Connemara, Co. Galway E: connemarafisheries@eircom.net T: +353 94 9548193 W: www.connemarafisheries.com C: Pat Somerville

Ballycotton Seafoods Ltd. Garryvoe, Co. Cork E: adrian@ballycottonseafood.ie T: +353 21 4646522 W: www.ballycottonseafood.ie C: Adrian Walsh

Connemara Smokehouse Ltd. Bunowen Pier, Aillebrack, Ballyconneely, Co. Galway E: graham@smokehouse.ie T: +353 95 23739 W: www.smokehouse.ie C: Graham Roberts

Beaumont Fish Sales 29 Millenium Business Park, Blanchardstown, Dublin 11.

E: sales@beaumontfishsales.com T: +353 1 8649977 W: www.beaumontfishsales.com C: Paddy Donegan

Daly’s Seafood’s Ltd. Kimego, Caherciveen, Co. Kerry E: dalyseafoods@iolfree.ie T: +353 66 9472082 W: www.dalysseafood.com C: Michael Daly

Beshoffs of Howth 17-18 West Pier Howth, Co. Dublin E: info@beshoffs.ie T: +353 1 8397555 W: www.beshoffs.ie C: Alan Beshoff Byrne Seafoods Beaugh, Malin, Co. Donegal E: byrneseafoods@hotmail.com T: +353 74 9370638 C: John Byrne Burren Smokehouse Ltd. Lisdoonvarna, Co. Clare E: sales@burrensmokehouse.ie T: +353 65 7074432 W: www.burrensmokehouse.ie C: Peter/Birgitta Curtin

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Dorans on the Pier 7-8 West Pier, Howth, Co. Dublin E: sean.doran@dorans.ie T: +353 1 8392419 W: www.dorans.ie C: Sean Doran Duncannon Fish Co. Ltd. New Ross, Co. Wexford E: kaironan@eircom.net T: +353 51 421364 C: Kai Ronan Dunmore East Fishermens Co-op Ltd. Dunmore East, Co. Waterford E: defcoop@eircom.net T: +353 51 383377 C: Maurice Glody

Dunn’s Seafare Ltd. Jamestown Business Park, Finglas, Dublin 11 E: sales@dunns.ie T: +353 1 8643100 C: Ken Ecock Eany Fish Products Ltd. Inver, Co. Donegal T: +353 74 9736318 W: info@eanyfishproducts.com C: William Ward East Coast Inshore Fishing Co. Ltd. Unit 28 Millenium Business Park, Cappagh Road, Dublin 11 E: brianeastcoast@hotmail.com T: +353 8649233 C: Brian O’Callaghan Eiranova Fisheries Dinish Island, Castletownbere, Co. Cork E: eira@eircom.net T: +353 27 70250 C: Brendan Minehane Fastnet Catch Harbour Drive, Baltimore, Co. Cork T: +353 87 0966342 C: John Kearney Fish Ahoy Arthurstown, New Ross, Co. Wexford E: fishahoy@eircom.net T: +353 51 389369 C: Michael Walsh Fish Sales Killybegs Ltd. Stragar, Killybegs, Co. Donegal E: conal@fishsaleskillybegs.ie T: +353 74 97 31297 C: Conal Molloy Fishman’s Market Unit 16B, 16 Hebron Business Park, Co. Kilkenny E: hoyne2jc@eircom.net T: +353 56 7793929 C: John Hoyne Flemings Seafood Old Coastguard Station, Ros a Mhil, Co. Galway E: flemingseafood@gmail.com T: +353 91 572088 W: www.flemingseafood.com C: Gay Fleming Four Leaf Clover 67 Henry Street, Co. Galway E: marykilcar@hotmail.com T: +353 91 860000 C: Ali Jalivandi Foyle Fishermen’s Co-op Society The Pier, Greencastle, Moville, Co. Donegal E: info@foylefishermensco-op.com T: +353 74 9381170 W: www.foylefishermensco-op.com C: John O’Kane Galway & Aran Fishermen’s Co-op.

The Pier, Rossaveal, Co. Galway E: gafishcoop@eircom.net T: +353 91 572161 C: Sean Griffin

Galway Bay Seafoods New Docks, Galway City, Galway E: sales@galwaybayseafoods.com T: +353 91 563011 W: www.galwaybayseafoods.com C: Noel Holland Gannet Fishmongers Limited 5-6 Royal Rock, Ballybane, Galway E: gannet.fish@gmail.com T: +353 91 440168 C: Stephane Griesbach Garrihy Seafoods Ltd. Doolin, Co. Clare T: +353 65 7074075 C: Joe Garrihy Glenmar Shellfish Ltd. Main Street, Union Hall, Skibbereen, Co. Cork E: info@glenmarshellfish.com T: +353 28 33818 W: www.irishprawns.com C: Diarmuid O’Donovan Goatsbridge Trout Farm Goatsbridge, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny E: goatsbridgetroutfarm@eircom.net T: +353 86 8188340 (Mag) +353 86 2544906 (Ger) W: www.goatsbridgetrout.ie C: Gerard Kirwan Good Fish Processing Ltd. Carrigaline Industrial Park, Crosshaven Road, Carrigaline, Co. Cork E: d.good@goodfish.ie T: +353 21 4373917 W: www.goodfish.ie C: Denis Good Green Isle Foods Ltd. Monread Road, Naas, Co. Kildare E: tom.cronin@greenisle.ie T: +353 45 876511 C: Tom Cronin Greencastle Fish Shop Greencastle, Co. Donegal T: +353 74 9381065 C: Harry McCormick H J Nolan (Dublin) Ltd. Rathdown Road, Dublin 7 E: info@nolanseafoods.com T: +353 1 8680066 W: www.nolanseafoods.com C: George Nolan Hanlon Ltd. 75/78 Cork Street, Dublin 8 E: sales@hanlon.ie T: +353 1 4737425 W: www.hanlon.ie C: Mark Hanlon Hederman Smoked Salmon (Belvelly Smokehouse) Belvelly, Cobh, Co. Cork E: mail@frankhederman.com T: +353 21 4811089 W: www.frankhederman.com C: Frank Hederman Iasc Ui Mathuna Ballyhea, An Daingean, Co. Kerry E: omathuna@iol.ie T: +353 66 9151136 C: Paddy O’Mahony

Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland

Ireland West Seafarer The Pier, Killala, Ballina, Co. Mayo E: iws@eircom.net T: +353 96 32717 C: Niall Byrne

M.J. Flanagan Unit 603, Northern Extension Industrial Park, Co. Waterford E: flanfish@indigo.ie T: +353 51 874926 C: John Whittle

Irish Seaspray Ltd. Tir An Fhia, Leitir Moir, Co. Galway E: info@irishseaspray.com T: +353 91 551222 W: www.irishseaspray.com C: Sean Gavin

Marine Harvest Ireland Rinmore, Fanad, Co. Donegal E: pat.connors@marineharvest.com T: +353 74 91 59071 W: www.marineharvest.com C: Pat Connors/Eve Anne McCarron

Joe Garvin Fish Sales 3 Nephin View, Ardagh, Ballina, Co. Mayo T: +35396 71564 C: Joe Garvin

McKenna Fish Sales Unit 30 Millenium Business Park, Blanchardstown, Dublin 11 E: info@mckennafish.com T: +353 1 8649040 C: Alan McKenna

Keem Bay Fish Products Ltd. Pollagh Keel, Achill Island, Co. Mayo E: keembay@gofree.indigo.ie T: +353 98 43265 C: Gerry Hassett

Meylers Fish Merchants Common Quay St, The Bullring, Wexford T: +353 53 9122339 C: James Meyler

Keohane Seafoods Ltd. Unit 25 Kinsale Road Industrial Estate, Kinsale Road, Co. Cork E: centralfishmarket@eircom.net T: +353 21 4322059 C: Coleman Keohane Kerry Fish (Irl) Ltd. Renard Point, Caherciveen, Co. Kerry E: order@kerryfish.com T: +353 66 9472177 W: www.kerryfish.com C: Liam Quinlan Kilkerrin Salmon/ISPG Ltd. Cill Chiarain, Connemara, Co. Galway E: liamroche@eircom.net T: +353 87 2830641 C: Liam Roche Kingfisher Fresh Ltd. Kerlogue Industrial Estate, Rosslare Road, Co. Wexford E: kingfisherfresh@eircom.net T: +353 53 9144704 C: Michelle O’Neill Kirwan Fish Merchants Strand Street, Clogherhead, Co. Louth E: philipkirk2010@gmail.com T: +353 41 9830622 C: Patrick Kirwan Kish Fish Co. Ltd. Bow Street, Dublin 7 E: sales@kishfish.ie T: +353 1 8543900 W: www.kishfish.ie C: Tadgh O’Meara Lett Seafoods Kerlogue Industrial Estate, Rosslare Road, Co. Wexford E: info@lettfrozenfoods.com T: +353 53 9140446 W: www.lettfrozenfoods.com C: Richard & Christian Lett

Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland

Millstream Ltd. Kiltrea, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford E: bryr@eircom.net T: +353 53 9234282 C: Bryan Rothwell Morgans Oceanfresh Ltd. Ardaghy, Omeath, Co. Louth E: info@morganoceanfresh.ie T: +353 42 9375128 W: www.morganfinefish.com C: Brian McCullagh Murrin Fisheries Ltd. Roshine Road, Killybegs, Co. Donegal T: +353 74 9731362 C: James Murrin Nicholas Lynch Ltd. 13 Ashbourne Manufacturing Park, Ashbourne, Co. Meath E: nicksfish@gmail.com T: +353 1 8353666 C: Nicholas Lynch Nicky’s Plaice Ltd. Store F West Pier, Howth, Dublin E: nickysplaice@eircom.net T: +353 1 8326415 W: www.nickysplaice.com C: Martin McLoughlin Normandy Ireland Ltd. The Pier, Schull, Co. Cork E: ndy@normandyireland.com T: +353 28 28599 C: Xavier Legrix

Oceanpath Ltd. Claremont Industrial Estate, West Pier, Howth, Co. Dublin E: sales@oceanpath.ie T: +353 1 8398900 W: www.oceanpath.ie C: Ken Ecock Rene Cusack Ltd. Raheen Industrial Estate, Limerick E: paulcusack@renecusack.ie T: +353 61 317566 W: www.renecus.com C: Paul Cusack Renvyle Fisheries Connemara Ltd. Tullyillion, Renvyle, Connemara, Co. Galway E: fisheries@diamonds-of-renvyle.com T: +353 95 43486 C: Liam Diamond Rockabill Shellfish Ltd. Stephenstown Industrial Estate, Balbriggan, Dublin E: rsf@indigo.ie T: +353 1 8417874 C: Bill Price Saltees Fish Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford E: michael@salteesfish.ie T: +353 53 9129870 W: www.salteesfish.ie C: Michael O’Flaherty Scibeen Foods Ltd. Abington, Murroe, Co. Limerick T: +353 61 386005 C: Michael O’Callaghan Seafood Cuisine Ltd. Fastnet Industrial Estate, Marsh Road, Skibbereen, Co. Cork E: seafoodcuisine@gmail.com T: +353 28 21869 C: Padraigh O’Donovan Sealyons Seafood Ltd. Castle Pier, Carrigaholt, Co. Clare E: nfo@sealyons.ie T: +353 65 9058222 C: Gearoid Lyons Select Seafoods Ltd. Butterly Business Park, Kilmore Road, Artane, Dublin 5 E: selectseafoods@eircom.net T: +353 1 8486839 C: Brendan Boylan

Spillane Seafoods Lockabane, Killarney, Co. Kerry E: seafood@eircom.net T: +353 64 31320 C: Paudie Spillane Star Seafoods Ltd. Dauro, Kenmare, Co. Kerry E: starseafoods@eircom.net T: +353 64 41427 C: Danny McCarthy Starcrest Seafoods Ltd. The Mullins, Old Laghey Road, Donegal Town, Co. Donegal E: starcrestseafoods@eircom.net T: +353 74 9721092 C: Alister McClay The Fisherman Unit 1, Ballybane Industrial Estate, Co. Galway T: +353 91 760127 C: Patrick O’Malley Thomas Mulloy Ltd. 3 West Pier, Howth, Co. Dublin E: info@mulloys.ie T: +353 6611222 W: www.mulloys.ie C: Thomas Mulloy Ummera Smoked Products Ltd. Ummera House, Inchybridge, Timoleague, Co. Cork E: info@ummera.com T: +353 23 46644 C: Anthony Creswell Union Hall Smoked Fish Ltd. Union Hall, Co. Cork E: nolanelmar@hotmail.com T: +353 28 33125 C: Sean Nolan William Carr & Sons Ltd. Curraglass, Mallow, Co. Cork E: billyc@wmcarr.com T: +353 58 56216 C: Billy Carr Wrights of Howth 14 West Pier, Howth, Co. Dublin E: mark@wrightsofhowth.com T: +353 1 8323937 W: www.wrightsofhowth.com C: Mark Wright

O’Cathain Iasc Teo The Quay, Dingle, Co. Kerry E: 2cathainiasc@eircom.net T: +353 66 9151322 W: www.iascteo.com C: Ricky Keane

Shellfish De La Mer Ltd. Dinish Island, Castletownbere, Co. Cork E: info@shellfishireland.com T: +353 27 70461 W: www.shellfishireland.com C: Richard Murphy

Wrights of Marino 21 Marino Mart, Marino, Dublin 3 E: info@wrightsofmarino.com T: +353 1 8333636 W: www.wrightsofmarino.com C: John Wright

Ocean Marine Ltd. 25A Monkstown Farm, Monkstown, Co. Dublin E: info@oceanmarine.ie T: +353 1 2802842 C: Darren Rogerson

Spa Seafoods The Spa, Tralee, Co. Kerry E: spa_seafoods@iolfree.ie T: +353 66 7136901 W: www.spaseafoods.com C: Brendan Walsh

Yawl Bay Seafoods Foxhole Industrial Estate, Youghal, Co. Cork E: yawlbay@indigo.ie T: +353 24 92290 C: David Browne

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Suppliers to the Aquaculture Industry T: - Telphone

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CONSULTANTS Aquafact International Ltd. 12 Kilkerrin Park, Liosbaun, Tuam Road, Galway C: John Costelloe T: (091) 756812 / 756813 F: (091) 7556888 E: info@aquafact.ie Aquatask Enterprises Ltd. Ballinahallia, Moycullen, Galway C: Mr. Diarmuid Mulcahy T: (091) 556715 M: 087 2266472 F: (091) 7556715 E: dmu1@eircom.net AquaTT Ltd Box 8989, Dublin 2 C: David Murphy T: (01) 6449008 F: (01) 6449009 E: david@aquatt.ie Atlantic Fare Kilkieran, Connemara, Galway C: Valerie Dujardin T: (095) 33300 F: (095) 33453 M: 087 6502645 E: sales@ispg.ie Jennings & O’Donnovan Finisklin Industrial Estate, Sligo C: Colm Jennings T: (071) 9161416 F: (071) 9161080 www.jodireland.com Marine Informatics Unit 3, Killaoe Industrial Est., Killaloe Co. Clare C: Dr John Wallace T: 061-375180 E: info@marineinformatics.com Watermark Aqua-Environmental Ballywaltrim, Killarney Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow C: Dr. Neil Bass T: 286200 M: 087 2481581 E: neilbass@iol.ie

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING Aqua-Fact International Services Ltd. 12 Kilkerrin Park, Liosbaun, Tuam Road, Galway C: John Costelloe T: (091) 756812 / 756813 F: (091) 756888 E: info@aquafact.ie

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Hensey Glan-Uisce Teo Coismeigmore, Furbo, Galway C: Mary Hensey T: (091) 592174 M: 087 2860845 E: info@glan-uisce.ie

Buccaneer Ltd Buccaneer House, 4 Union Road, Macduff Aberdeenshire, AB4414U7, Scotland, UK C: Ian McDonald T: 0044 (0) 1261 835199

Veolia Water Ireland Ltd Kilkenny Industrial & Business Park, Purcellsinch, Dublin Road, Kilkenny E: salesenquiries@veoliawater.ie

C H Marine Marsh Road, Skibbereen, Cork C: Nicholas Bendon T: (028) 23190 E: sales@chmarine.com

GENERAL Air Products Ireland Ltd Unit 950 Western Industrial Est., Kileen Road, Dublin 12 T: 01 4659650 Akva Group 36F Shore Road, Inverness IVI INF, Scotland C: Douglas Johnson T: 0044 146322 1444 F: 0044 146322 3535 E: djohnson@akvagroup.com Alnamartec Ltd Wimbourne Quay, Blyth Northumberland NE24 IPX, UK T: 0044 1670 542640 E: sales@alnamartec.co.uk Alltech Ireland Summerhill Road, Sarney, Dunboyne, Co Meath T: 8252244 Aquabeam BTB Innovation 357 Dysart Road, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG31 7NB, UK C: David R Holt T: 0044 1476 576280 F: 0044 1476 561557 E: mail@bgbinnovation.com Sarl Besnard P&F La Masseliere, 72200 Bazouges/Loir, France T: 00(0) 2 43 940982 E: a.besnard@besnard-ste.fr Bonnar Engineering Neil T Blaney Road, Letterkenny, Donegal C: Pat Bonnar T: (074) 9122256 F: (074) 9124877 E: info@bonnarengltd.ie

Everyvalve Equipment 19 Station Close, Potters Bar, EN6 I TL, Hertfordshire, England, UK C: Chris Townsend T: 00 44 1707 642018 F: 00 44 1707 646340 E: sales@everyvalve.com France Naissain Polder des Champs, 85230 Bouin, France T: 00 33 299 8989 89r E: vj.pascal@oranfe.fr

Cochon 11 Rue Belles Ezines-BP2, 17680 Le Gua, France C: Christophe Pierre T: 00 33 546228214 / 2983 F: 00 33 546228719

Fishtechnic Fredelslomh Gmbh 37186 Moringen, Germany T: 0049 5555 99300 E: fishtenik@t-online.de

Delta Valves and Plastics West Link Business Park, Kilnap, Old Mallow Road, Cork C: Peter Harrington T: (021) 4 399377/021-4399388 F: (021) 439 9388 E: deltavalves@eircom.net

Fusion Marine Marine Resource Centre, Barcaldine, Oban, Argyll PA37 15E, Scotland UK T: 0044 1631 720730 F: 0044 1631 720731 E: enquiries@fusionmarine.com

Depur Systems Ltd Moneycarragh Fishfarm, 62 Dromara Road, Dundrum, Co. Down, Northern Ireland C: John Smyth T: 028 4375 1113 E: info@depursystems.com

Gael Force Marine Ltd. 136 Anderson Street, Inverness, IV3 8OH, Scotland UK T: 0044 1463 229400 E: sales@gaelforce.net

Dryden Aqua Ltd Butlerfield, Bonnyrigg, EH I 9 3JQ, Midlothian, Scotland UK C: Howard Dryden T: 00 44 1875822222 F: 00 44 1875822229 E: aqua@drydenaqua.com DSM Industriholmen 59, 2650, Hvidovre, Denmark T: 0045 43208981 Dundrum Bay Oyster Fishery 24 Main Street, Dundrum, Newcastle, Down, Northern Ireland UK C: Robert Graham T: (048) 43751810 F: (048) 43751610 Eddie Carr and Co. Ltd Colga. Calry, Sligo, Rep. of Ireland C: Eddie Carr T: (071) 9147180 M: 087 2544217 F: (071) 9147182 E: sales@eddiecarr.com

Gem Plastics Regaskin, Cavan, Co. Cavan C: James King T: 049 43 31077 F: 049 43 61157 E: sales@gemplastics.ie IDS Monitoring Ltd., Unit 3 Killaloe Ind Estate, Killloe, Co Clare, Ireland C: John Wallace T: 061 375180 W: www.idsmonitoring.com Jennings & O’Donovan Finisklin Industrial Estate, Sligo T: 071 9161416 JFC Manufacturing Co Ltd Weir Road, Tuam, Co Galway T: (093) 24066 E: info@jfcmarine.com W: www.jfcmarine.com

Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland

JF Moulds / Eco Tanks Portnason, Ballyshannon, Donegal C: John Fenton T: (071) 9851025 E: jfmoulds@eircom.net J T Electric Kambsdalur, Faroe Islands T: 00298 47 4444 F: 00258 47 4445 E: info@jt.fo J & W Stuart (Ire) Ltd Castletownbere, Co. Cork C: Michael Murphy T: 027 71663 F: 027 70973 M: 086 2667991 Kingspan/Aerobord Ltd. Askeaton, Limerick C: John Blessing T: (061) 604600 F: (061) 604601 E: john.blessing@kingspan.com Ksteel Garrafrauns, Dunmore, Tuam, Co Galway T: (093) 38677 E: ksteel@live.ie Liftup Akua AS N-5640 Eikelandsosen, Norway C: Jorgin Gunnarsson T: 0047 56582711 E: mail@liftup.no Marketech The Pier, Ballycotton, Cork C: Peter McKeown T: (021) 4646134 M: (086) 8100113 F: (021) 4646756 E: peter@marketech.ie Mohn Aqua Unit 5 The Enterprise Park, Forres, IV36 2AB, Scotland C: Keith Vivian T: 0044 1309 678270 E: keith.vivian@mohnaqua.com MSD Animal Health Red Oak North, South County Business Park, Dublin 18 T: 01 237 0220 Organic Trust Ltd. Vernon Avenue, Clontarf, Dublin 3 T: 01 853 0271 Ocea Aquaculture Ltd Torrangorm Industrial Est Unit 1A PA34 4PA Scotland T: 0044 7511 114500 T: 0047 5538 5000 W: www.ocea.no

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Pascal Sarl La Ville-Es-Jaretts, 35350, St. Columb, France T: 0033 2 99898989 Satmar Gatteville-Phare, France C: Stephane Duval T: 00 33 (0) 233448036 F: 00 33 (0) 233231255 E: stephane.satmar@orange.fr Sterner AquaTech 1 Longman Drive, Inverness, Scotland UK C: Mark Farquhar T: 00441463 250275 F: 0044 1463 250275 E: info@sterner.co.uk Sotra Anchor & Chain Videnes, 5363 Aagotnes, Norway T: 0047 56326852 E: nicolai@sotra.net Storvik As Kilmory Industrial Estate, Lochgilphead, Argyll PA 31RR, Scotland C: Lorraine Campbell T: 0044 1 546603989 / 0044 188077070 Triskell Seafood Ltd. Strandhill Co. Sligo T: 071-9168060 M: +353 (0) 87 2451558 +353 (0) 89 4631003 E: info@triskellseafood.com W: www.triskellseafood.com C: Marie Aude Danguy Tropical Marine Centre TCM Bristol Cribbs Causeway Centre Bristol BS10777 T: 0044 117 958 1150 E: commercial@ tropicalmarinecentre.co.uk Tysonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Ship Riggers) Ltd Unit 4, Omega B usiness Park, Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire, UK T: 0044 1472 347065 Vaki Akralind, No. 4, 201 Kopauogur, Iceland C: David Jarron T: 00 354 5953000 E: david@vaki.is Veolia Water Ireland Ltd Kilkenny Industrial & Business Park, Purcellsinch, Dublin Road, Kilkenny T: (056) 7763950 E: salesenquiries@veolia.ie

Wire Ropes Ltd. North Quay, Wicklow C: Mr Clyde Wynne T: (0404) 67375 F: (0404) 67053

United Fish Industries Killybegs, Donegal C: John Healy T: (074) 97 41800 F: (074) 97 41847

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FINFISH STOCK

Aquaculture UK 2016 5M Publishing, 8 Smythywood Drive, Sheffield, SC51QN, UK, T: 0044 1142 46 4799 E: you2us@5mpublishing.com

Landcatch Natural Selection Ormsary, Loghgilpheard, Argyll, Scotland Pa31 8PE,

Aquanor 2017 Nor Fishing Foundation N 7030Trondheim, Norway T: 0047 90841124 E: mailbox@nor-fishing.no

Marine Harvest Kindrum, Fanad, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal C: Jan Fennstra T: (074) 9192820 E: irishsales@marineharvest.com

FINFISH FEED Aller Aqua (Ireland) Ltd. Allervej 130, DK 6070, Christianfeld, Denmark T: 00 45 7022 1910 W: www.aller-aqua.com BioMar Ltd North Shore Road, Grangemouth FK38UL, Scotland T: 0044 1324665585 Coppens International bv 15 Swindon Road, Redlands Highworth, Wiltshire SN6 7SL C: Matthew French T: 0044 778 6083485 E: info@coppens.eu Ewos Ltd Westfield, Bathgate, EH48 3BP, West Lothian, Scotland UK C: Lindsay Pollock, T: 00 44 1506633966 F: 00 44 1506632739 E: lindsay.pollock@ewos.com Skrettring Wincham, Northwich, Cheshire, CW9 6DF, T: 0044 1606 561090 E: info.aqua@skretting.com W: www.skretting.com Triskell Seafood Ltd. Strandhill Co. Sligo T: +353 (0) 71 9168060 F: +353 (0) 71 91 68064 M: +353 (0) 87 2451558 +353 (0) 89 4631003 E: info@triskellseafood.com W: www.triskellseafood.com FB: www.facebook/triskellseafood.com C: Marie Aude Danguy

UK E: enquiries@hendrix-genetics.com

Stofnfiskur SFIceland Stadarberg 2-4, P O Box 24, 222 Hafnarfjordur, Iceland C: Jonas Jonasson T: (354) 564 63 00 F: (354) 564 63 01 E: jo0nas@stofnfiskur.is

INSURANCE MCM Insurance Brokers Wellworth Buildings, Bridge Street, Ballina, Co. Mayo T: 096 72977 Suderland Marine Aquaculture Risk (Management) Ltd The Quayside, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE13DU, England, UK C: Robert Ferguson T: 0044 191 232 5221 F: 0044 191 261 0540 E: robert.ferguson@ sunderlandmarine.com

MAPS LaTene Maps Station House, Shankill, Co. Dublin C: John Coleman T: (01) 2823688 E: enquires@latenemaps.com W: www.latenemaps.com

NETS Aqualine AS Pir Trondheim, nr7010, Norway C: Hans Olav Ruo T: 0047 73809932 E: hans.olaf.ruo.@aqualine.no

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Cavanagh Nets Ltd. Drumaweir House, Greencastle, Donegal C: Mr. Lawrence Cavanagh T: (074) 9381178 F: (074) 9381014 Coastal Cages Ballymoon, Kilcar, Donegal C: Martin Carr T: (074) 9738406 F: (074) 9738406 Morenet Teo Tiernee Industrial Estate, Lettermore, Co Galway T: (091) 551144 Swan Net Gundry Ltd Roshine, Killybegs, Co. Donegal C: Martin Howley T: (074) 97 31180 W and J Knox Ltd. Kilbirnie, KA25 7DY, Scotland UK C: Ms. Julie McDonald T: 00 44 1505 682511 F: 00 44 1505 682980 E: nets@wj-knox.co.uk

PHOTOGRAPHY Aquaphoto Picture Library 15 O’Brien’s Place, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 C: Shay Fennelly M: +353 (0)83 1094765 F: (098) 36247 E: shayfennelly@eircom.net

SECURITY SYSTEMS Barry Electronics Ltd. St. Catherines Road, Killybegs, Donegal C: Donal Haughey T: (074) 97 31215 F: (074) 97 31739 E: chris@bel.ie

SHELLFISH STOCK Guernsey Sea Farms Parc Lane, Vale, GY3 SEQ, Guernsey, Channel Islands C: Mark Dravers T: 00 44 1481 247480 F: 00 44 1481 248994 E: oyster@guernseyseafarms.com Morecambe Bay Oysters Old Gravel Works, South Walney Island, Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria, LA14 3YQ C: Kelsey Thompson T: 0044 1229 474158 F: 0044 1229 474500 E: info@morecambayoysters.co.uk

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Redbank Oyster Hatchery. Ltd. New Quay, Burrin, Clare C: Mr. Jarlaith Connellan T: (065) 70 78189 F: (065) 70 78055 Satmar Gatteville-Phare, France C: Stephane Duval T: 00 33(0) 2 33448036 E: stephane.satmar@orange.fr Tralee Bay Hatchery The Ponds, Kilshanning, Castlegregory, Co. Kerry T: 353 66713909 M: 00353863966566

SMOLT Ballinderry River Enhancement Association Orritor, Cookstown, BT80 9ND, Tyrone, Northern Ireland UK C: Alan Keys T: (048) 86751201 Carrigadrohid Smolts Ltd. Carridadrohid Hatchery, Macroom, Cork T: (026) 48132 M: 087 9080521 F: (026) 48054 E: declanquigley@eircom.net Connemara Fishfarms Doorus, Corr na Mona, Galway C: Paul Sommerville T: (094) 95 48193 F: (094) 95 48194 Douglas Valley Hatchery Ltd. Kilclough, Kilworth, Cork C: Michael Walsh T: (025) 27337 F: (025) 27635 Eir Nor Teoranta (Laschinger Aqua Group) Ballyhea, Dingle, Kerry C: Gerald Hofmaier, T: (066) 9151139 T: (066) 9150008/9 F: (066) 9151133 ESB Hatchery (Ballyshannon) Knather Road, Ballyshannon, Donegal C: John Gallagher T: (071) 9851712 F: (071) 9852318 Marine Institute Salmon Management Division Furnace, Newport, Mayo C: Deirdre Cotter T: (098) 42300

Millbrook Hatcheries Drumcavney, Trenta, Letterkenny, Donegal C: John O’Boyle T: (074) 9737474

Institute of Aquaculture University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, Scotland UK T: 00 44 1786 467874 F: 00 44 1786 472133 E: aquaculture@stir.ac.uk

Northern Salmon Company Glenarm Hatchery, Glenarm, Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK C: John Russel T: (048) 2841691

Irish Skipper Annagry, Letterkenny, Donegal C: Hugh Bonner T: (074) 9548935 F: (074) 9548940 E: hugh@maramedia.ie

Santa Cruise Salmon Ltd. Carrigahorig, Nenagh, Tipperary C: Peter Gibbs T: (090) 9747122 Seven Springs Trout Hatchery Ballyhampton Road North, Larne, Antrim, Northern Ireland UK C: David Baird T: (048) 28260977 Sperrin Mountain Spring Hatchery 109 Fergarron Road, Cookstown BT80 9QL, Tyrone, Northern Ireland UK C: Wilfred Mitchell T: (048) 81659700

TRAINING AND PUBLICATIONS Aquaculture Development Centre University College Cork, Lee Maltings, Prospect Row, Cork C: Gavin Burnell T: +353 (0)21 4904590 M: +353 (0)86 8206464 F: +353 (0)21 4904593 E: g.burnell@ucc.ie W: http://adc.ucc.ie Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland Athenry, Co. Galway C: Roger Cole T: 353 (0) 2859111 E: info@ aquacultureandseafoodireland.com W: www.aquacultureandseafoodireland.com Fish Farmer Magazine 496 Ferry Raod, Edinburgh EH52DL, Scotland C: William Dowds T: 00 44 1315511000 W: www.fishfarmer-magazine.com Fish Farming International Nexus Place, 25 Farringdon Street, London EC4A 4AD, UK C: Ratchel Mutter T: 00 44 2070295714

Marine Times Cranny Road Inver Co. Donegal C: Mark McCarthy T: (074) 97 36899 F: (074) 97 32635 E: marinetimes@eircom.net W: www.marinetimes.ie Sparsholt College Hampshire, Winchester, S021 2NF, England UK T: 00 44 1962776411 F: 00 44 1962776587

VETERINARY Aquatic Veterinary Group BioResearch Ireland, National Diagnostics Centre, University College Galway, Galway C: Ms. Margaret Ruttledge/ C: Ms. Evelyn Collins T: (091) 524098 F: (091) 586570 Kaycee Veterinary Products 14 Enterprise Park Lewes Road Lindfield West Sussex RH162LH, UK T: 0044 1444482888 E: sales@kaycee.co.uk W: www.kaycee.co.uk MSD Animal Health Red Oak North, South County Business Park, Dublin 18 T: 01 237 0220 Pharmaq Unit 15 Sandleheath Ind. Est. Fordingbridge Hampshire SP61PA, UK T: 01 237 0220 E: orders@pharmaq.no W: www.pharmaq.com Vet-Aqua International Unit 7B Oranmore Business Park, Oranmore, Galway C: Hamish Rodger T: (091) 792997 E: vetaquainter@gmail.com

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SHELLFISH Atlanfish Limited Malin Road Carndonagh Donegal Ireland C: Gareth Gallagher Managing Director T: +353 74 937 4285 +44 777 486 4900 F: +353 74 937 4685 E: gareth@atlanfish.com W: www.atlanfish.com Bantry Bay Seafoods Gortalassa Bantry Co. Cork Ireland C: Orla D’Arcy Sales & Marketing Manager T: +353 27 50 977 F: +353 27 50 943 E: orladarcy@bantrybayseafoods.com W: www.bantrybayseafoods.com Bell’s Isle Seafoods Tullyearl Co. Donegal Ireland C: Des Moore Managing Director T: +353 74 97 22 791 F: +353 74 97 23 858 M: +353 8 76 53 67 81 E: valanddes@eircom.net Breizon Limited Dalriada Mina Inverin Rossaveal Co. Galway Ireland C: Loic Guenael Managing Director T: +353 91 572 157 F: +353 91 572 246 E: vivierbreiz@eircom.net Carr Shelfish Ireland Curraglass Mallow Co. Cork Ireland C: Billy Carr Managing Director T: +353 58 56216 F: +353 58 56434 E: billy.carr@carrshellfish.com W: www.wmcarrshellfish.com Kilmore Seafood Kilmore Quay Co. Wexford Ireland C: Mairead Roche Sales & Marketing Manager T: +353 53 912 9755 F: +353 53 912 9700 E: mairead.roche@errigalbay.com

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Clogherhead Fishermen’s Co-Op Clogherhead Co. Louth Ireland C: Paul Boyd General Manager T: +353 41 988 1403 F: +353 41 988 1405 E: paulboyd@cloghercoop.com Connemara Seafoods Seafood House Kilmeena Westport Co. Mayo Ireland C: Ann-Marie Mulloy Business Development Manager T: +353 98 41000 +353 98 41328 +353 98 41772 F: +353 98 41666 E: ammulloy@connemaraseafoods.com W: www.connemaraseafoods.com Emerald Mussels Limited Carrowholly Westport, Mayo Ireland C: George Golden Managing Director T: +353 98 26376 F: +353 98 26431 E: carrowhollyshellfish.net Errigal Seafood Carrick Co. Donegal Ireland C: Aodh O Donnell Managing Director C: Wayne Donovan Sales Manager C: Tom Glynn Marketing Manager C: Beatriz Ajenjo Sales Representative Spain/Portugal T: +353 74 973 9023 F: +353 74 973 9114 E: sales@errigalbay.com Fastnet Mussels Gearhies Bantry Co. Cork Ireland C: John Murphy Managing Director T: +353 27 61276 M: +353 86 244 0573 F: +353 27 61264 E: john.murphy@fastnetmussels.com W: www.fastnetmussels.com Galway and Aran Co-Op The Pier Rossaveal Co. Galway Ireland C: Sean Griffin General Manager T: +353 91 572 161 F: +353 91 572 134 E: s.griffin@galwayandaran.ie

Glenmar Shellfish Limited Main Street Union Hall Co. Cork Ireland C: Mel Bendon Managing Director T: +353 28 33818 F: +353 28 33099 E: info@glenmarshellfish.com W: www.irishprawns.com

Sofrimar Limited Kilmore Quay Co. Wexford Ireland C: Yohann Pierard Sales & Marketing Manager T: +353 53 912 9660 F: +353 53 912 9699 E: yohann@sofrimar.ie W: www.sofrimar.ie

Hannigan Fish Trading Limited Fintra Road Killybegs Co. Donegal Ireland C: Jimmy White General Manager T: +353 74 973 2134 F: +353 74 975 3622 E: hftrading@eircom.net W: www.liveirishshelfish.com

Triskell Seafood Ltd. Strandhill Co. Sligo Ireland T: +353 (0) 71 9168060 F: +353 (0) 71 91 68064 M: +353 (0) 87 2451558 +353 (0) 89 4631003 E: info@triskellseafood.com W: www.triskellseafood.com FB: www.facebook/triskellseafood.com C: Marie Aude Danguy

Kush Shelfish O’Sheas Buildings Kenmare Co. Kerry Ireland C: John Harrington Managing Director T: +353 64 664 1714 F: +353 64 664 1751 E: info@kush.ie W: www.kush.ie

Wrights of Howth 14 West Pier Howth Co. Dublin Ireland C: Mark Wright Managing Director T: +353 1 832 3937 F: +353 1 832 0201 E: mark@wrightsofhowth.com W: www.wrightsofhowth.com

Michael Kelly (Shelfish) Limited Tyrone Kilcolgan Co. Galway Ireland C: Diarmuid Kelly General Manager T: +353 91 796 120 F: +353 91 796 720 E: kellyoysters@eircom.net W: www.kellyoysters.com

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Rockabill Shellfish Stephenstown Ind. Est. Balbriggan Co. Dublin Ireland C: Alan Price Sales & Marketing Consultant T: +353 1 841 7874 F: +353 1 841 7876 E: aprice@rockabill.ie admin@rockabill.ie W: www.rockabill.ie Shellfish De La Mer Dinish Island Castletownbere Co. Cork, Ireland C: Damian Connolly Export Manager T: +353 27 70461 F: +353 27 70333 M +353 87 950 6599 E: damian@shellfishireland.com W: www.shelfishireland.com

Burren Smokehouse Limited Kincora Road Lisdoonvarna Co. Clare, Ireland C: Birgitta Curtin Managing Director T: +353 65 707 4432 F: +353 65 707 4303 E: birgitta@burrensmokehouse.ie W: www.burrensmokehouse.ie Connemara Fisheries Limited Cornamona Connemara Co. Galway Ireland C: Kathleen Nee Sales & Marketing Manager T: +353 94 954 8193 F: +353 94 954 8194 E: connemarafisheries@eircom.net W: www.connemarafisheries.com Irish Seafood Producers Group Limited Kilkieran, Connemara, Co. Galway, Ireland C: Valerie Cooke Export Sales Manager T: +353 95 33300 F: +353 95 33454 E: Valerie@ispg.ie W: www.atlanticfare.com

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Irish Seaspray Tir An Fhia Lettermore, Co. Galway, Ireland C: Sean Gavin - Managing Director T: +353 91 551 222 F: +353 91 551 234 E: sgavin@irishseaspray.com W: www.irishseaspray.com Kenmare Select 84 Rue du Cherche Midi Paris 75006, France C: Cyprien Benoit Director, Business Development T: +33 61 637 1534 F: +353 1 4222 0206 E: cyprien.benoit@kenmare-select.com W: www.kenmare-select.com Kinvara Smoked Salmon Limited Kinvara, Co. Galway, Ireland C: Declan Droney Managing Director T: +353 91 637 489 F: +353 91 638 193 E: Declan@kinvarasmokedsalmon.com W: www.kinvarasmokedsalmon.com Marine Harvest Ireland Rinmore Fanad, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland C: Pat Connors Sales Director T: +353 74 919 2820 F: +353 74 919 2825 E: pat.connors@marineharvest.com W: www.marineharvest.com www.donegalsilver.ie www.theorganicsalmoncompany.ie Oceanpath/Dunns of Dublin West Pier, Howth, Co. Dublin, Ireland C: Ken Ecock Managing Director T: +353 1 839 8900 F: +353 1 839 8930 E: ken@oceanpath.ie W: www.dunns.ie William Carr & Sons Limited Curraglass Mallow, Co. Cork, Ireland C: Billy Carr Managing Director T: +353 58 56216 F: +353 58 56434 E: billy.carr@carrshellfish.com W: www.wmcarr.com Wrights of Howth 14 West Pier Howth, Co. Dublin, Ireland C: Mark Wright Managing Director T: +353 1 832 3937 F: +353 1 832 0201 E: mark@wrightsofhowth.com W: www.wrightsofhowth.com BORD BIA - Irish Food Board Clanwilliam Court Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, Ireland C: Director Markets Michael Murphy C: International Markets Manager Breiffine Kennedy T: +353 1 668 5155 F: +353 1 6687521 E: info@bordbia.ie W: www.bordbia.ie

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Seaweed Producers T: - Telphone

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Algaran Teoranta Cashlings Kilcar Co. Donegal Ireland C: Rosaria Piseri T: +353 74 9738961 F: +353 74 9738823 E: rosaria@algaran.com W: www.seaweedproducts.ie

Carraig Fhada Seaweed Ltd Cabra, Rathlee, Easkey Co. Sligo Ireland C: Betty Melvin T: +353 96 49042 F: +353 96 49042 E: carraigseaweed@eircom.net

Arramara Teoranta Kilkieran Connemara Co. Galway Ireland C: Dónall Mac Giolla Bhríde T: +353 95 33404 F: +353 95 33494 E: info2@arramara.ie W: www.arramara.ie

Cartron Point Shellfish New Quay, Burrin Co. Clare Ireland C: Freddie O’Mahony T: +353 27 62990 E: freddieomahony@eircom.net

BioAtlantis Limited Tom Crean Centre, Kerry Technology Park Tralee Co. Kerry Ireland C: John T. O’Sullivan T: +353 66 7118477 F: +353 66 7119802 E: info@bioatlantis.com W: www.bioatlantis.com Blath na Mara Eoghnacht, Inis Mor, Aran Islands Co. Galway Ireland C: Máirtín O’Conceanainn T: +353 99 61411 E: blathnamara@eircom.net W: www.blathnamara.com Bord Iascaigh Mhara (Irish Sea Fisheries Board) New Docks Galway Co. Galway Ireland C: Máirtín Walsh T: +353 91 539364 F: +354 91 568569 E: walshm@bim.ie W: www.bim.ie Brandon Products Limited Mounthawk Buisness Centre, Mounthawk Tralee Co. Kerry Ireland C: Paul Mullins T: +353 66 7181160 F: +353 66 7181161 E: brandon@brandonproducts.com W: www.brandonproducts.com

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Celtic Seaweed Baths Products Ltd. Maritime Centre Strandhill, Co. Sligo Ireland C: Mark Walton T: +353 71 9168956 F: +353 71 9168012 E: mark.walton@voya.ie W: www.voya.ie Centre for Renewable Energy Dundalk Institute of Technology Dublin Road, Dundalk Co. Louth Ireland C: Paul Macartain T: +353 42 9370474 E: credit@dkit.ie W: www.credit.ie Cleggan Seaweed Company Dock Road Cleggan, Co. Galway Ireland C: John King T: +353 95 44649 E: fisherking9@gmail.com Cybercolloids Limited Site 13, Unit 4A, Carrigaline Industrial Estate Carrigaline Co. Cork Ireland C: Ross Campbell T: +353 21 4375773 E: info@cybercolloids.net W: www.cybercolloids.net

Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Marine Planning/Foreshore) Newtown Road Wexford Co. Wexford Ireland C: Bernard Nolan T: +353 53 9117367 E: bernard.nolan@environ.ie W: www.environ.ie Dingle Bay Seaweeds Cluaish, Dingle Co. Kerry Ireland C: Paul Flannery T: +353 87 2389998 E: paulflannery1234@gmail.com W: www.carraigfhada.com Erris Seaweed & Shellfish No. 6, Inver, Barr na Tra, Ballina Co. Mayo Ireland C: Gerard Heneghan T: +353 97 84976 Feamainn Fiain Teoranta Kylebroughlan, Moycullen Co. Galway Ireland C: Michael Beatty T: +353 87 1376476 E: mtbeatt@gmail.com Feamainn Organach Chonamara Teoranta Ros a’ Mhil Co. Galway Ireland C: Noel Lee T: + 353 87 2830809 E: noel@kelpireland.com W: www.kelpireland.com Galway Bay Marine Limited Mountain Road Moycullen Co. Galway Ireland C: Philip Casburn T: +353 91 556239 F: +353 91 556239 E: philip@sea-nymph-ireland.com W: www.sea-nymph-ireland.com Healthyyou 7 Lyndon Crescent, Donnybrook, Douglas Co. Cork Ireland C: Dermot Twomey T: +353 21 4892726 E: dermot@seaweedsalads.ie W: www.seaweedsalads.ie

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Indigo Rock Marine Research Station Gearhies Bantry, Co. Cork Ireland C: Julie Maguire T: +353 27 61276 F: +353 27 61264 E: julie.maguire@dommrc.com W: www.indigorock.org

Lo-tide Fine Foods Limited Moyna, Kilmeena, Westport Co. Mayo Ireland C: Seamus Moran T: +353 98 42616 F: +353 98 42616 E: info@lo-tide.com W: www.lo-tide.com

Institute of Technology, Sligo Ash Lane Sligo Co. Sligo Ireland C: John Bartlett T: +353 71 9155314 W: bartlett.john@itsligo.ie Irish Seaweed Conultancy Clybaun Road, Knocknacarra Galway Co. Galway Ireland C: Anna Soler T: +353 87 7208191 E: anna.soler@irishseaweed.com W: www.irishseaweedconsultancy.com Irish Seaweed Processors Limited Rossmore Quay, Woodford Portumna Co. Galway Ireland C: Tony Barrett T: +353 909 749071 F: +353 909 749255 E: tbarrett@irishalgae.com W: www.irishalgae.com Irish Seaweed Research Group Ryan Institute, National University of Ireland Galway University Road Co. Galway Ireland T: +353 91 492377 W: www.irishseaweed.com K & M Aquatic Plant Enterprises Thornville Killinick Co. Wexford Ireland C: Mary Meyler T: + 353 53 9175995 F: + 353 53 9175995 E: info@oceanleaves.ie W: www.oceanleaves.ie

Marigot Limited Strand Farm, Currabinny Carrigaline Co. Cork Ireland C: Michael Ryan T: +353 21 4378377 F: +353 21 4378466 E: celticsm@indigo.ie W: www.celticseaminerals.com Marine Institute Rinville Oranmore Co. Galway Ireland C: Francis O’Beirne T: +353 91 387250 E: francis.obeirn@marine.ie W: www.marine.ie Ocean Harvest Technology Limited Mausrevagh, Kilcoona, Headford Co. Galway Ireland C: Stefan Kraan T: +353 93 51807 E: stefan@oceanharvest.ie W: www.oceanharvest.com Oilean Glas Teoranta Ballymoon Industrial Estate Kilcar Co. Donegal Ireland C: Declan Gallagher T: +353 74 9738860 F: +353 74 9738854 E: declan@ogt.ie W: www.ogt.ie Quality Sea Vegetables Cloughglass Burtonport Co. Donegal Ireland C: Manus MacGonagle T: +353 74 9542159 F: +353 74 9542159 E: qualityseaveg@eircom.net W: www.qualityseaveg.ie

Rí na Mara Teoranta Seannagurrain Spiddal Co. Galway Ireland C: Seamas MacCathmhaoil T: +353 91 553047 F: +353 91 553047 E: info@rinamara.com W: www.rinamara.com Roaring Water Sea Vegetable Company East End, Ash Tree Cottage, Dunbeacon, Durrus Co. Cork Ireland C: Paul Cobb T: +353 86 7870657 W: www.roaringwatervegetables.ie Seahorse Atlantic Oakmount Castletownebere Co. Cork Ireland C: Sarah Jane O’Sullivan T: +353 27 71663 E: info@seahorseatlantic.ie W: www.seahorseatlantic.ie

Sherkin Island Marine Station Sherkin Island Co. Cork Ireland C: Matt Murphy T: +353 28 20187 F: +353 28 20407 E: sherkinmarine@eircom.net W: www.sherkinmarine.ie Waterford Sea Vegetables Ballinagaul, Ring Dungarvan Co. Waterford Ireland C: Nicholas Paul T: +353 58 46168 E: info@glasraimara.ie Wild Irish Sea Vegetables Caherush Quilty Co. Clare Ireland C: Gerard Talty T: +353 87 0922555 E: info@wildirishseaveg.com W: www.wildirishseaveg.com

Seamus O'Grady Fahamore Castlegregory Co. Kerry Ireland C: Seamus O’Grady T: +353 87 6737701 E: jimmycian@gmail.com Seavite Bodycare Limited 26 Maunsells Road Taylors Hill Co. Galway Ireland C: Kaye Mulrooney T: +353 91 521351 F: +353 91 527701 E: contact@seavite.ie W: www.seavite.ie Seaweed Limited Kylebroughlan, Moycullen Co. Galway Ireland C: Graham Casburn T: +353 91 773370 F: +353 91 773371 E: info@carabay.ie

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Fish Farms in Northern Ireland T: - Telphone

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Oysters Killough Oysters Ltd 20 Blackstaff Road, Clough Co. Down BT30 8SW N. Ireland T: 07834120795 C: Patrice Bonnargent Killowen Shellfish Ltd 31 Stewarts Road Annalong Co.Down BT34 4UE N. Ireland T: 07742931211 C: Darren Cunningham DOMA(NI) 24 Main Street Dundrum Co. Down BT31 0LX N. Ireland T: 0033299894816 Henning Bros Ltd The Harbour Kilkeel Co.Down BT34 4AX N. Ireland T: 028 41762335 C: Harold Henning Shinglebay Shellfish 70-72 Browns Bay Road Islandmagee Co. Antrim BT40 3RX N. Ireland T: 00353858313508 C: Fabrice Richez Greencastle Oysters 27A Fair Road Greencastle Co.Down BT34 4LS N. Ireland T: 0033 0546859785 C: Jean-Marie Alfonso Foylemore Oysters Coney Road Culmore Co. Derry BT48 8JP N. Ireland T: 07795600327 C: Willie Lynch Cuanm Sea Fisheries Ltd Flat 25 89 Frances Street N/Townards Co. Down BT23 6SQ N. Ireland C: Michel Mousset

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Stephen O’Hare 40 Leestone Road Kilkeel Co. Down BT34 4NW N. Ireland C: Stephen O’Hare Millbay Oysters The Harbour, Kilkeel Co. Down BT34 4AX N. Ireland T: 028 41763071 C: John Rooney

Finfish Glenariffe Trout Farm 5 Glen Road Glenariff Co. Antrim BT 44 ORF N. Ireland T: 02821772155 C: Hugh Delargy Glenoak Fisheries 1 Nutts Corner Road Crumlin Co. Antrim N. Ireland T: 02894452975 E: office-rjm@utvinternet.co.uk C: Raymond Mairs Northern Salmon Company Castle Demesne Glenarm Co. Antrim BT440BD N. Ireland T: 028 288 41691 E: john@ glenarmorganicsalmon.com C: John Russell Otterburn Farm 31 Caddy Road, Randalstown Co. Antrim BT41 3 DL N. Ireland T: 028 9447 2002 E: lee.beverland@btconnect.com C: Lee Beverland Seven Springs Hatchery Ballyhampton Road Larne Co. Antrim N. Ireland T: 028 2826 0977 E: brianhj@btinternet.com C: Brian Johnston

Silverstream Fisheries Ltd Old Corby Mill, Limnavallaghan Road Clough, Martinstown Co. Antrim N. Ireland T: 028 2175 8655 E: silverstream@btinternet.com C: Ian McGrath

Orritor Fish Farm 266 Orritor Road, Cookstown Co. Tyrone BT80 9 NE N. Ireland T: 02886751201 E: alan.mckeown@amk4trout.com C: Alan McKewon

Movanagher Fish Farm DCAL 152 Vow Road, Kilrea Ballymoney Co. Antrim N. Ireland T: 02829540533

Tommy Marshall 314 Coalisland Road Dungannon Co. Tyrone BT71 6ET N. Ireland 02887740649

Moneycarragh Fish Farm 60 Dromara Road Dundrum Co. Down N. Ireland T: 028243751860 E: moneycarraghfishfarm@ yahoo.co.uk C: John Smyth

Ballyarton Hatchery Lower Ballyarton Road Co Derry N. Ireland E: iangamble@btinternet.com C: Ian Gamble

EMEC Ltd 126 Marble Arch Road, Killesher Florencecourt Co. Fermanagh N. Ireland T: 02866349974 E: info@ernemelvin.com C: Paul Kearney Ballinderry River Trust Orritor Road Cookstown Co. Tyrone BT80 9ND N. Ireland T: 028 867 61515 E: alankeys@bfhltd.fsnet.co.uk C: Mark Horton Judestream Fish Farm Scotchtown Lane, Balindery Bridge Coagh Co. Tyrone N. Ireland T: 02886737621 C: Tommy Devlin Blue Valley Fish Farm 14 Upper Kildress Road Cookstown Co. Tyrone BT80 9RS, N. Ireland T: 028 8774 0649 E: mmca14@yahoo.co.uk C: Mark McAlister Rocks Lodge Trout Farm 24 Bunderg Road, Lisnatunny, Newtownstewart Co. Tyrone N. Ireland T: 028 2826 0977 E: brianhj@btinternet.com C: Brian Johnston

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Northern Ireland Seafood Companies T: - Telphone

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Anglo North Irish Fish Producers Organisation The Harbour Kilkeel Co. Down BT34 4AX T: +44 (0) 28 41762855 F: +44 (0) 28 4176 4904 E: info@anifpo.com W: www.anifpo.com Cloughmore Shellfish 3 The Harbour Kilkeel Co. Down BT34 4AX Northern Ireland T: 44 (0) 28 4176 9208 C & N Chambers The Harbour Kilkeel Co. Down Northern Ireland BT34 4AX T: +44 (0) 28 417 65100 F: +44 (0) 28 417 64245 E: info@cnc-fish.co.uk W: www.cnc-fish.co.uk/ C: Mr. Charles Chambers M: 07074465100 C: Mr. Norman Chambers M: 07074663212 C& O Milligan Downpatrick Rd Ardglass Downpatrick Co. Down BT30 7SF Northern Ireland T: +44 (028) 4484 1098 C: Comgall Milligan Denholm Fish Selling Ltd. Coastguard Cottages Harbour Rd Portavogie Co. Down BT22 1EA Northern Ireland T: +44 (028) 4277 1429 E: pvg@denholm-fishselling.co.uk W: www.denholm-fishselling.co.uk C: Sam Mawhinney Donegal Prime Fish Skeoge Industrial Estate Beraghmore Rd Co. Londonderry BT48 8SE Northern Ireland T: +44 (028) 7135 0059 E: donegalprimefish@hotmail.com C: Dorothy Ryan

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East Coast Seafoods Old Boiler House Killard Drive Downpatrick Co. Down BT30 7PW Northern Ireland T: 44 (028) 44 841196 E: info@eastcoastseafoods.co.uk

Kilkeel Kippering Company The Harbour Kilkeel Co. Down BT34 4AX Northern Ireland T: 44 (028) 4176 3164 C: Cecil McCullough E: cecil@kilkeelkippering.plus.com

Ewing’s Seafoods 6 Kendal Street Belfast BT13 2JR Northern Ireland T: 44 (028) 9032 5534 W: www.ewingseafoods.com/belfast C: Walter Ewing

Kilkeel Seafoods Ltd The Harbour Kilkeel Co. Down N Ireland BT34 4AX T: +44 (028) 41762649 E: admin@kilkeel-seafoods.com W: http://kilkeel-seafoods.com

Glenarm Organic Salmon 8 Castle Demesne Glenarm Co. Antrim BT44 0AD Northern Ireland T: +44 (0) 28 288 41691 E: info@glenarmorganicsalmon.com W: www.glenarmorganicsalmon.com/ Henning Bros. Fishing Co. Ltd. The Harbour Kilkeel Co. Down BT34 4AX Northern Ireland T: +44 (0) 28 4176 2335 F: +44 (0) 28 4176 2335 M: +44 (0) 78 0881 2188 / 079 2186 5833 W: www.henningfish.co.uk E: info@henningfish.co.uk Keenan Seafood Limited Blackstaff Road Kennedy Way Belfast BT11 9DT C: Gerry Keenan T: +44 (028) 9061 8088 F: +44 (028) 9043 1096 E: info@keenanseafood.com Kennedy’s Direct Catch Down Business Park 46 Belfast Road Downpatrick County Down BT30 9UP C: Kenny Kennedy T: +44 (028) 4461 7277 W: www.kennedysdirectcatch.com Kilhorne Bay Seafoods Limited Moneydarragh Road Annalong County Down BT34 4TZ Northern Ireland T: +44 (028) 43 768261 F: +44 (028) 43 768900 W: www.kilhorne.com

Rathlin Island Lobster & Crab Cleggan Cottage Rathlin Island Co. Antrim BT54 6RT Northern Ireland T: 44 (0) 28 2076 3948 C: Liam & Benji McFaul Rooney Fish The Harbour Kilkeel County Down BT34 4AX Northern Ireland T: +44 (0) 28 4176 3071 F: +44 (0) 28 4176 2188 E: sales@rooneyfish.com W: www.rooneyfish.com C: John Rooney

McKeown’s Fish & Poultry Shop 14 High Street Bangor Co. Down BT20 5AY Northern Ireland T: +44 (0) 28 9127 1141 M: +44 (0)7793641422 W: www.mckeownsfishmongers.co.uk

S & P Milligan 20 Downpatrick Road Ardglass Downpatrick Co. Down BT30 7SF T: +44 (0) 28 44 841595 C: Seamus Milligan

McMullan Shellfish The Lobster Ponds 5 Glenariffe Road Glenariffe Co. Antrim BT44 0QY Northern Ireland T: +44 (0) 28 2177 1032 C: Alex McMullan

Sea Source The Harbour Kilkeel Co. Down BT34 4AX Northern Ireland T: +44 (0) 28 4176 2855 F: +44 (0) 28 4176 4904 W: www.sea-source.com/

Mortons Fishmongers 22 Bayview Road Ballycastle Co. Antrim BT54 6BT Northern Ireland T: +44 (0) 28 2076 2348 C: Patrick McLernon

Something Fishy N.I. Ltd. 1 The Tides Portavogie Co. Down Northern Ireland T: + 44 (0) 7769 152244 C: Alan Coffey

Mourne Seafood Bar Fishmongers 34-36 Bank St Belfast BT1 1HL Northern Ireland T: +44 (028) 90 24 8544

T.H. Nicholson The Harbour Kilkeel Co. Down BT34 4AX T: +44 (0) 28 417 64919 E: info@thnicholson.co.uk

Still Waters Fishing Unit 1 Princess Anne Road Portavogie Co. Down BT22 1DT Northern Ireland T: +44 (0) 28 4277 1316 E: alan@stillwatersfishing.co.uk W: www.stillwatersfishing.co.uk

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Aquaculture Initiative EEIG 12B Innovation House, Down Business Centre, 46 Belfast Road, Downpatrick, Co. Down BT3094P, Northern Ireland T: 028 44619660 W: aquacultureinitiative.eu Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board Kilminchy Court, Portlaoise, Co. Laois, T: 05786 67857 E: info@alab.ie W: alab.ie Aquaculture and Fisheries Development Centre University College Cork, Cooperage Building, North Mall, Cork T: 021 4904541.

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NI Department of the Environment Goodwood House, 45-58 May Street, Townsparks, Belfast BT14NN T: 028 90540540 W: doeni.gov.uk NI Department of Aquaculture & Rural Development Dundonald House, Upper Newtownards Road, Ballymiscaw, Belfast BT4 3SB. T: 028 90524980 W: dardni.gov.uk Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Agriculture House, Kildare St, Dublin 2.

T: 1890 200 510 / +353 238859500 E: info@agriculture.gov.ie W: agriculture.ie Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Coastal Zone Management Division Sea Fisheries Administration Seafood Policy & Development West Cork Technology Park, Clonakilty, Co Cork T: 1890 25 27 41

AquaTT Ltd. Box 8989, Dublin 1 T: 01 6449008 F: 01 6449009 C David Murphy E: david@aquatt.ie Bord Bía Clanwilliam Court Lower Mount St, Dublin 2, Ireland T: 01 668 5155 F: 01 668 7521 E: info@bordbia.ie W: bordbia.ie

European Aquaculture Society Slijkensesteenweg 4, 8400 Oostende, Belgium C: Alistair Lane T: 0032-59 323859 F: 0032-59321005 E: eas@aquaculture.cc

BIM (Irish Sea Fisheries Board) Crofton Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

T: 01 214 4100 F: 01 284 1123 W: bim.ie

Inland Fisheries Ireland (HQ) Swords Business Campus, Swords, Co Dublin T: +353 1 8842 600 F: +353 1 8360 060 E: info@fisheriesireland.ie

Irish Salmon Growers Association (part of IFA Aquaculture) Irish Farm Centre, Bluebell, Naas Road, Dublin 12.

T: 01 4508755 F: 01 4551043, E: richieflynn@ifa.ie C: Richie Flynn W: ifa.ie Irish Shellfish Association (part of IFA Aquaculture) Irish Farm Centre, Bluebell, Naas Road, Dublin 12.

T: 01 4508755 F: 01 4551043, E: richie@ifa.ie C: Richie Flynn

Salmon Research Agency of Ireland (Marine Institute) Furnace, Newport, Co. Mayo.

T: 098 41107 Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority Park Road, Clogheen, Clonakilty, Co Cork T: 023 885 93 00 E: info@sfpa.ie Údaras na Gaeltachta Na Forbacha, Furbo, Gaillimh T: 091 503100 F: 091 592037 W: udaras.ie E: eolas@udaras.ie

Irish Seaweed Industry Association Ryan Institute, Orbsen Building, University College Galway.

T: 091 493548 F: 091 495515 E: caroline.murphy@nuigalway.ie Loughs Agency 22 Victoria Road, L’Derry T: 028-71342100 RofI: 048-71342100 E: general@loughs.agency.org Marine Institute & Marine Data Centre Rinville, Oranmore, Co. Galway T: 091 387200 W: www.marine.ie Ocean Harvest Technology N 17 Business Park, Milltown, Co. Galway T: 093-5180710 E: info@oceanharvest.ie W: oceanharvest.ie

Every effort is made to ensure accuracy. We would appreciate if you would email any corrections or additions to: cole@bim.ie

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