Sustainable Fisheries Community
About the Initiative
The Sustainable Fisheries Community (SFC) was born from years of engagement with the fishing community along the east coast of Ireland.
The SFC is a collaborative initiative, funded by NISA, a proposed offshore wind farm project off the coast of Dublin, Meath and Louth. It was designed to explore ways that Offshore Renewable Energy can support the seafood sector with the many challenges it faces by working together on projects that practically test solutions, address roadblocks and answer long standing concerns.
All SFC projects focus on sustainability. Projects that will support a resilient seafood sector, valued for its heritage and culture and rewarded for supplying high quality seafood to the Irish public and managing a healthy and renewable marine resource in our coastal seas.
The SFC is initially focused on the protection and enhancement of a locally sustainable fisheries and marine environment in the waters around the NISA project which also delivering long term wider industry benefits.
The initiative will be steered and influenced by members of the fishing community, administered by an independent 3rd party and supported by the NISA project which has already allocated significant funding for this purpose.
Big Ideas,
Real Impact
With funds of up to €1 million available, the SFC represents an opportunity to develop and deliver meaningful initiatives to help futureproof fishing communities.
The Projects
The projects being supported by the SFC all work towards delivering a resilient seafood sector, valued for its heritage and culture and rewarded for supplying high quality seafood to the Irish public and managing a healthy and renewable marine resource in our coastal seas.
Learn more about the progress of this exciting work here.
