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Whitehouse Station, NJ, & Co., Inc., a subsidiary of Merck Intervet International B.V. © 2012, 06.2012 R0085_12F. 2 Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland YEARBOOK 2012 CONTENTS Page 4 Page 10 Page 14 Page 23 Contributors: Taoiseach gives strong personal backing to new Integrated Marine Plan 4 Gery Flynn Richie Flynn Harvest 2020 - Just How Will We Do It? 6 Donal Maguire Benen Dallaghan Is the Tide Beginning to Turn in the Industry's Favour? 8 Trevor Purtill Joe Silke Aquaculture Values County by County for 2011 9 Tony Legg Anna Soler-Vila Donegal Bay Entepreneurs' Ambitious Plans to Increase Oyster Production by 2014 10 Maeve Edwards Michael Barry The European Aquaculture Technology Innovation Platform (EATiP) - Simon Kilroy providing a Strategic Plan for European Aquaculture 12 Chris Mitchell Bendik Fyhn Terjesen 21st Century Re-boot for ‘The Salmon of Knowledge’ 13 Production: Shellfish Biotoxin Analysis: National Report 2011 14 Inshore Ireland Publishing Ltd Athenry, Co Galway 2012 - A Year for Shellfish Innovation 16 Tel: +353 91 844 822 Email: [email protected] Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture in Ireland 18 Web: www.inshore-ireland.com New Books 19 Advertising Manager: Roger Cole 20 Years of Oyster Production in Ireland - was our optimism justified? 20 Tel: +353 1 214 41 00/285 91 11 Mobile: +353 87 261 15 97 New Irish Company to Provide Aquarists with Cultivated Tropical Coral 21 Email: [email protected] Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority - a Key Partner to Aquaculture 22 Web: www.silchestermarketing.com Antibodies or Antibiotics? - it's a Management Decision 23 Design: Conleth Adamson JFC and Veolia - two companies servicing aquaculture 25 73 Foxfield Grove, Raheny, Dublim 5 Tel: 01 8318103 Producers 26 Mobile: 087 6737441 Fish Processors 41 Front cover picture: Conor Reid, Suppliers to the Aquaculture Industry 43 Donegal Bay Oyster Company. 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Box 12, Crofton Road, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland, Tel: 01 2144100 Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland 3 * Taoiseach’s Strong Backing of New Marine Plan Seen as Major Step Forward for Ireland’s Maritime Sector Gery Flynn “HARNESSING OUR OCEAN WEALTH”, the government’s much-anticipated Integrated Marine Plan has been unveiled by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny who says that no effort will be spared implementing it. Picture courtesy of David Ruffles Subtitled ‘a roadmap for It states: ‘Our ocean is a generating momentum in opportunities to achieve integrated actions’ the plan national asset, supporting a potentially lucrative sectors economic recovery and socially- expects to see Ireland, for the diverse marine economy with such as offshore renewables, inclusive sustainable growth. first time, evolve ‘a system of vast potential to tap into a offshore services, and marine policy and programme €1,000bn global marine and coastal planning. Goal 2 sets out to achieve planning’ for its maritime market for seafood, tourism, oil healthy ecosystems that provide affairs. and gas, marine renewable This will focus on addressing monetary and non-monetary energy, and new applications deficiencies in the current and goods and services such as food, Despite such optimism, the for health, medicine and licensing system as well as climate, health and well-being. plan cautions that technology. In 2007 Ireland developing an appropriate achievements will have to take generated 1.2% of GDP Maritime Spatial Planning Goal 3 aims to increase our place ‘within the over-riding (€2.4bn) from its ocean Framework for Ireland’, it engagement with the sea to medium term fiscal economy. While the EU suggests. strengthen our maritime framework and budgetary Commission estimates that in identity and increase our targets adopted by the 2007 between 3% and 5% of GOALS awareness of the value, Government’. Europe’s GDP was generated The plan also identifies three opportunities and social from sea-related industries and high-level goals - based on the benefits of engaging with the The plan sets out an ambitious services‘. concept of sustainable sea. twin target to increase the development - as being of turnover from Ireland’s ocean For the period 2012-2014 equal importance: IMAGINATIVE AND economy to more than €6.4bn fifteen actions are identified for by 2020, and to double the implementation. Among these Goal 1 focuses on a thriving WORKABLE value of its ocean wealth to is a call for the development of maritime economy whereby Introducing the plan on July 2.4% of GDP by 2030. an enterprise strategy aimed at Ireland harnesses the market 31st last at the Marine Institute 4 Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland Taoiseach Enda Kenny BUREAUCRATIC described it as an imaginative and workable BOTTLENECKS marine strategy which his Also throwing his weight government would waste no behind ‘Harnessing Our Ocean time in implementing. Wealth’, Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine Simon “I came here today to send Coveney compared it to the the strongest signal that my highly successful Food Harvest government is backing this 2020 strategy which was plan. I hope also that my launched for the Agri-food presence here will be seen as sector last year. a political statement about where I stand with regard to “When Food Harvest 2020 was the marine sector. I firmly launched, nobody noticed. Now believe in this plan and that however, people are it will bring huge economic announcing new initiatives in benefits to the generations the food sector, and referring coming after us”, the back to the business plan that Taoiseach declared. was put in place. People began to realise that this was a real He added: “With such an working business plan - a key impressive roadmap now road map for the sector. I before us there is no time to predict that Harvesting Our loose. I’m not going to listen Ocean Wealth will do the same to those who will say that it for the marine sector, except cannot be implemented, or that it will be even bigger. This that bureaucracy and red strategy is about realizing the tape will strangle it. The potential of our marine, business of government is to Ireland’s largest natural deal with all of that by resource - by a country mile,” opening the doors of he declared. opportunity”. Acknowledging “the ,OOKAFTERYOUR.ET0ROlTS Taking the long term view the considerable frustrations” that Taoiseach said he was had built up in certain sectors confident that the plan of the marine industry in the would be seen by future past decade Minister Coveney generations as the platform predicted that the new strategy from which Ireland launched would go a long way towards her first integrated marine clearing some of the legal strategy. bottlenecks which had stymied development and expansion in “I’d like to think that perhaps certain sectors in the past – in twenty years the people aquaculture in particular. on this island who are deriving economic benefit “Task Forces of talented from the judicious use of the individuals, driven people, seas will look back and say passionate about the potential this plan is what initiated of the marine, including civil Ireland’s focus on marine servants, academics and policy- activities.” makers – all with a wide range of complimentary skills – will He added: “I don’t want this be in place to drive this new plan to sit on a shelf strategy forward. 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