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Business Development

Business Development. Meeting Industry Needs Facilitating Growth. Sustainable Fisheries Scheme. Split into 3 integrated parts Part A, Public Interest Projects (technical or scientific bodies) Part B, Fleet Improvement Projects (vessel owners)

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Business Development

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  1. Business Development Meeting Industry Needs Facilitating Growth

  2. Sustainable Fisheries Scheme • Split into 3 integrated parts • Part A, Public Interest Projects (technical or scientific bodies) • Part B, Fleet Improvement Projects (vessel owners) • Part C, Quality and Added value (Groups of fishermen, co-ops, PO’s)

  3. Public Interest Projects • 16 projects with EMFF Funding of €1.4 million • Focusing on: • Implementation of the landing obligation • Assisting fishermen to operate to common standards of responsibility and best practice • Reducing environmental impacts of fishing on the ecosystem • Stakeholder education and awareness

  4. Types of Project • Testing of selective gears • Reducing interactions of seals with fishing gears • High survivability experiments • Identifying potential uses for unwanted catches • Delivery of a national certification programme • Creation of stakeholder groups • Improving waste management (Fishing for litter, Net recycling) • Reducing parasitic worms in landed fish • Educational Conferences/workshops

  5. Fleet Improvement Projects • 106 projects approved in 2018 • 22 completed to date with EMF grant aid €1m. Expected drawdown of over €2.2m • Provision of selective gears • Equipment to improve: • hygiene, health and working conditions • fuel efficiency • fish quality and add value

  6. Types of Project • Selective and low impact fishing gears • Improvements to common areas, equipment to reduce manual handling, insulation and ventilation • Fuel monitoring, gear monitoring and fuel efficient fishing gears • Temperature monitoring systems, weighing and labelling and fish handling systems • Engine Replacement

  7. Fleet Improvement Projects • 106 projects approved in 2018 • 22 completed to date with EMF grant aid €1m. Expected drawdown of over €2.2m • Provision of selective gears • Equipment to improve: • hygiene, health and working conditions • fuel efficiency • fish quality and add value

  8. Quality and Added Value Projects • 7 projects with total investment of €3 million and EMFF grant aid of €1.4 million • Two elements: • Investment in infrastructure to address the challenges of the landing obligation • Certification and promotion of sustainable fishery products

  9. Types of Project • 3infrastructure projects to date 2018) • Co-ops and first-point of sale entities • Facilities and equipment for the handling and storing unwanted catches • Improving quality and adding value to fish under the landing obligation • 4certification projects to date • Certification of groups of vessels under national certification programme (RSS) and also for MSC fisheries

  10. New Fishermen Scheme • Applicant <40yrs old • 25% of cost of vessel capped at €75,000 • Vessels 7m to 24m LOA (excluding vessels in that sector of 12m to 24m length overall (LOA) using active fishing gear (trawlers, seine netters and dredgers). • 3 Applications approved €127k approved to date (2018) 2 applications pending.

  11. Actions for 2018 • Continued testing of selective gears • Further high survivability studies for plaice and sole • Continuation of projects which aim to enhance the sustainability credentials of Irish seafood in the marketplace (RSS, Origin Green) • Continued support for industry-led change management projects (FIPs, NFDG, Women in seafood) • Continued support for fleet improvement projects • Introduction of an engine replacement scheme (vessels less than 12m) • Completion of outstanding infrastructure projects (landing obligation)

  12. Grants Electronic Management System (GEMS)

  13. Thankyou

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