Nasco – North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation meeting about to kick off in Brittany St Malo France. The main event for Fissta and Irish salmon will be the special session tomorrow Wednesday where we will hear from Inland Fisheries Ireland on how they defend their management of our very scarce and dwindling wild Atlantic salmon …
Read about Irish angling in angling mags T&S + ICSCL
Good coverage in the angling press of the FISSTA Angljng and wild salmon conservation campaign. Both the Trout & Salmon and Irish Country Sports and Country Life have our articles. Support them by buying the latest issue in the shops from next Tuesday.
FISSTA CHAIRMAN APPEALS TO ALL IRISH ANGLING CLUBS TO SUPPORT FISSTA IN FIGHTING THE IFI TAKEOVER OF OUR GWEEBARRA WATERS
FISSTA Chairman Paul Lawton has appealed to all in angling to support FISSTA and Tafi’s Gweebarra 3 campaign in conjunction with the Donegal Game Anglers Federation whose members are facing serious legal charges in the courts at present. Fissta PRO and Secretary Noel Carr is coordinating the campaign along with Tafi Chairman Charles Kennedy. IFI …
Minister Simon Coveney TD engages with protesters at AVIVA
In what was a cold wet morning on Wednesday 2nd April last our Fissta protest group were there to confronts the minister at the Aviva stadium on Landsdowne rd where BIM hosted a seafood conference. Fair play to the Minister for dropping in for a chat rather than being driven around to a more secure …
EDWARD POWER RIP
Ed Power Obituary The sad passing of Edward Power from Clonmel, who was our serving Vice Public Relations Officer, is a huge loss to FISSTA and Ireland’s country sports. Irish angling has greatly benefited from his participation with this federation where he was a true leader of our decreasing salmon and seatrout fisheries. Just like …
SAD LOSS OF FISSTA ANGLING GIANT
EDWARD (EDDIE) POWER RIP The sad news that the renowned Edward Power from has died suddenly at his residence in Clonmel has shocked the Irish and international angling community. Eddie served as former Chairman of the Clonmel and District Salmon Anglers and currently as the FISSTA Vice Public Relations Officer. He was a strong defender …
Kinsale now holds the record wave
Surely all Minister Simon Coveney has to do is look out his window to realise offshore salmon farming is an outdated form of pollution that happened in the days before climatic change. Congrats to Cork for winning this weeks biggest wave. Ireland’s biggest ever wave recorded off Kinsale THE biggest wave ever to hit Irish …
Mayo TD exposes waste of fisheries money.
Minister for food must protect food
We are in danger of messing our hard win exports by letting the fish farming cowboys damage our economy. … http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-205540/Farm-salmon-linked-cancer-chemicals.html
IFA AQUACULTURE ADMIT POTENTIAL DAMAGE TO MARINE IF THEY DO NOT GET MORE STATE GRANTS
It appears that communication on one side of IFA Aquaculture office up in Dublin has broken down with the other side according to Ritchie Flynn and Jerry Gallagher’s press statements in this months edition of the Irish Skipper. One says ‘salmon farms withstood unprecedented storms’ while the other seeks Ôé¼5m more state funding “to deal …