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Minister McConalogue announces €35m infrastructure fund to support coastal communities

The Scheme will operate from January to March 2022

Losses Now the industry faces yet more losses because of the Brexit trade deal between the EU and UK that was settled last Christmas Eve. That agreement averted the economic chaos that would have come with a no-deal Brexit. But the Irish fishing sector was quick to say its outsized burden was not acceptable. The deal will cut €43 million per year from the value of Irish fishing stocks by 2026, a 15 per cent cut from the value of the State’s 2020 quota. This is part of an arrangement i...

Taiwan Business TOPICS A growing emphasis on social and environmental responsibility among major U.S. corporations has begun influencing the practices and operations of their Taiwanese supply chain partners as well. Last summer, President Tsai Ing-wen announced that starting from the first day of 2021, Taiwan would allow the importation of U.S. pork containing trace amounts of ractopamine. Some Taiwanese have decried the decision as submission to pressure from Washington. That the debate over r...

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Greenpeace, EJF urge Western buyers to pressure Taiwan to tighten its fishing regulations By Share Taiwan has the second-largest long-distance fleet in the world, and plays a central role in the international supply chain for fisheries products. But in recent years, its distant-water fleet has been accused of human rights offenses, tainting its reputation. According to Greenpeace and other NGOs concerned with labor issues in the global fishing industry, Taiwan’s tuna-fishing firms, and m...