taking our mackerel, the swines…

its not ours any more its the eu..its a joke even though in Wicklow at the moment there is ment to be no dragging for mussel but still foreign vessles have been dragging 3miles off

They took our mackerel!!

not much to be caught off bullock harbour either this year… down Patrick head in the west was great last year… not too many weeks left now… :-(

Yup from about 400 meters distance between the 2 vessels.

Another job well done by our Navy. It’s a shame the government still refuses to invest in this element of our defence forces.

In fairness it’s pretty hard to “sneak up” on a fishing vessel if there radar is working.

half a hour before the board gives the boat enough time to dump catch etc it would be like the gards ringing someone to say in half a hour we will be raiding your property..they have to board by surprise its the only way

Gavin, I will say that two new vessels are scheduled to enter Navy service beginning in 2013 with the option of a third. So the government isn’t refusing to invest.

Not that they are big enough or well enough equipped for the task at hand. We should realistically have 10 to 15 ships in service instead of the iirc 7 we have now. Look at the size or the equipment of the New Zealand or Dutch navies for a comparison of where our navy should be going. So the government is investing but nowhere near enough.

They do a fantastic job with the limited resources they have available.

The navy check log books, nets, what they have onboard and where they are. Fail any of these and it’s a caution or or the boat is taken. My friend had his fifty foot boat detained and was arrested because he forgot to sign the log book, it was filled in but no signature. So they’re not as passive as most think.