Save The Swilly 1 October 2002

PUBLIC MEETING TO DISCUSS INTEGRATED COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT

Save The Swilly is inviting anyone interested in the development of Lough Swilly to attend a meeting at the Mount Errigal Hotel in Letterkenny at 8.00pm on Monday, 7th October.
Dr Andrew Cooper, Head of the Coastal Studies Research Group at the University of Ulster in Coleraine, will explain the meaning and significance of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), and how it should be applied in Lough Swilly. A new coastal research centre being developed at the University aims to advise on new European Union recommendations regarding coastal zone management as one of its primary tasks.

Save The Swilly is convening the meeting with the aim of taking the debate surrounding the future of Lough Swilly forward. The focus of the meeting will be ICZM, and there will be opportunity for an exchange of views. Dr Cooper, an expert on Ireland's coastline, has made the point that "various groups are not working together to make use of (Lough Swilly's) valuable resource…major economic development opportunities are being missed".

He will be available to elaborate on this point and other recommendations made in the Scoping Study for an ICZM strategy for Lough Swilly produced by Dr Cooper and colleagues at the University of Ulster. Among these recommendations are:

The carrying capacity for each use of Lough Swilly - fishing, tourism, aquaculture, waste disposal, etc - should be considered from physical, ecological and social perspectives.

The economic benefits of all existing and potential (but realistic) uses of the lough and its surroundings should be assessed.

A management body should be established for Lough Swilly that is representative of all interested groups and activities. These include conservation, fishing, aquaculture, angling, agriculture, recreation, shipping, tourism.

The Donegal County Council should be the lead agency for the management body.

Everyone with an interest in the future of Lough Swilly is invited to attend this meeting.

SAVE THE SWILLY contacts:

Email: info@loughswilly.com
Phone: Tony Morrison (353) 07493-63733
Phone: John Mulcahy (353) 07491-59113; (353) 086-2808636
Address: c/o Buncrana Anglers Association,
Castle Lane, Buncrana, Co. Donegal
Website: www.loughswilly.com

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September 25, 2006
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July 11, 2005
Attempt to double salmon-farming output in Lough Swilly

August 23, 2004
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June 2, 2004
Coulter calls for political change in Donegal

December 15, 2003
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November 05, 2003
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September 24, 2003
Prime Time Exposes Aquaculture's Shortcomings

July 24, 2003
Save the Swilly Calls for Farmed Salmon Mortality Monitor

July 21, 2003
Another Disaster in Inver Bay - Inquiry Essential

July 17, 2003
Rural Development Towards Sustainability

February 8, 2003
Save the Swilly Meets Inishowen Politicians

February 3, 2003
Blue Flag Beach Threatened by 80-Acre Fish Farm

January 29, 2003
Save the Swilly 10,000-Signature Petition Accepted by Europe

January 28, 2003
New Alliance Formed in Swilly

December 16, 2002
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December 13, 2002
Lough Swilly's Indigenous Fishermen Speak Out

October1, 2002
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September 25, 2002
Save the Swilly Welcomes the Strategy on Coastal Zone Mangement

August 12, 2002
Integrated Coastal Zone Management Proposal Launched

August 2, 2002
Questions over decomposing salmon in Inver Bay

June 3, 2002
No Room for Tradition in Lough Swilly

May 3, 2002
Save the Swilly opts for "Swilly First"

May 3, 2002
Save the Swilly/Green Party candidate withdraws

May 1, 2002
Save the Swilly/Green Party candidate to contest Donegal North-East

April 18, 2002
Coulter to be "Ambassador at Large" for Save the Swilly

March 25, 2002
Save The Swilly presents 10,000-signature petition to EU

March 12, 2002
Study of Lough Swilly launched

November 30, 2001 STS letter to Hugh Byrne, Minister for State for the Department of the Marine

November 27, 2001 ICZM and OSPAR - not Clams - for Swilly

October 17, 2001 Salmon farm wants still more licences inshore

September 17, 2001 Save the Swilly meets Labour Party

September 13, 2001 Save the Swilly meets Minister of State Byrne

September 1, 2001 Save the Swilly begins fundraising drive

August 28, 2001 Save the Swilly welcomes I.F.A. initiative

May 15, 2001 Expansion of salmon farming tragic for Swilly

April 9, 2001 Mussel barrels adrift in Lough Swilly

March 22, 2001 Save the Swilly presents petition

March 13, 2001 Save the Swilly questions Minister Byrne

March 11, 2001 Save the Swilly reaffirms call for moratorium

February 20, 2001 Launch of Save the Swilly website

January 24, 2001

January 16, 2001 Delegation meets Minister Hugh Byrne

January 9, 2001 Save The Swilly (from looking like Mulroy Bay)