“No amount of reports, plans or legislation seems to be able to motivate DAFM to fulfil its duty to comply with environmental laws or impose some order on fishing – something only they are in a position to do, even in the absence of an MPA Act.”
Considering the 2022 designation of the Basking Shark as the first marine fish as protected under Ireland’s Wildlife Act, Pádraic Fogarty decries the regulatory inability to sufficiently control the biggest threat to the species- fishing.