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Press Statement Glenarm/Red Bay Salmon Farm MCNI call for Ministerial intervention on the question of Expansion at Glenarm Salmon Farm –“The impact of this decision by the Owner of the Salmon Farm will have a long term impact upon tourism and the proposed Marine Protection Zone (MPZ) being considered by the Marine Division of DOE”, Claimed…

PRESS RELEASE: No Limits to shark exploitation? PLYMOUTH// The Shark Trust is launching its No Limits? campaign today in response to the crisis posed by unlimited and escalating shark fishing pressure. With no catch limits set for many shark species, landings have soared over the past decade, placing huge pressure on shark populations. The Trust’s…

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Also recent surveys across UK and Ireland make the socio economic case for RSA, results for Northern Ireland still being withheld one year on by DARD,update when available? 07.02.13 Recreational Fishing Included For The First Time As MEPs Vote For Radical CFP Reform Angling Organisations across Europe survived a tense vote by MEPs on reform…

  Exciting new course with Scottish Shark Tagging Programme and MCNI!  Booking essential Opposite Grove Leisure Centre at Grove Housing Buildings, York Road.  Car park at rear.

MCNI visited Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST) in Scotland. arran article  

Please see the link below reporting MCNI objections to the proposed Islandmagee Gas Project. http://www.islandmageecommunity.org/2013/02/objectors-list-concerns-over-islandmagee-gas-caverns-discharge/    

COAST inspire Northern Ireland’s Marine Conservation                                              24th February 2014 A team from Marine Conservation Northern Ireland visited Arran Island over the weekend to meet with Arran’s COAST members, Andrew Binnie and Howard Wood. The Northern Irish organisation have big plans to create a greater awareness of marine laws across the province, with the help of…

  PDF version – report-overfishing fact or fiction By Nicole Todd of MCNI Introduction: Fishing is a common practice across the globe, both on an industrial and recreational level. The sustainability of our fishing methods is most certainly questionable; however, humans have always had their impact on the population of fish species that are generally…