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One of Ireland’s leading producers of organic salmon, Connemara-based Cill Chiaráin Éisc Teoranta (CCET), has completed a substantial €543,000 investment aimed at future-proofing the business and protecting local jobs.

When it comes to the collection of data about Ireland’s €1.25 billion seafood sector, Ireland has fallen behind many of its European counterparts, that’s according to Irish researchers heading up a new seafood sustainability initiative.

A new edition of Ireland’s original ‘seafood Bible’, Georgina Campbell’s From Tide to Table - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Seafood is in bookshops now. Designed to help even the most reluctant home cooks to feel comfortable shopping for and cooking seafood, From Tide to Table is a handsome paperback covering everything from snacks and easily prepared family meals to seafood dishes for special occasions.

There was a broad welcome this week in the city for the announcement of €2.5M in funding for the provision of a second building at the successful Portershed.

As Galway is the European Region of Gastronomy 2018, this year’s SeaFest will also celebrate the city’s food heritage and culture. From farmer and fisherman to chef, restaurateur or consumer, food plays a critical role in all our lives in Galway. The European Region of Gastronomy 2018 designation will focus on the vital role of the food industry in the west of Ireland, and showcase the high quality and rich produce available in the region.

‘Fishing for Business Opportunities: Catch onto new strategies at Our Ocean Wealth Summit’

The Seafest event, Ireland’s largest maritime festival will boost the Galway economy by more than €2million per day of its’ there day run from June 29 to July 1.

The value of landings at Ros a Mhíl, County Galway’s leading fishing port, amounted to €12 million in 2017 and totalled a weight of 2,700 tonnes, according to the annual Business of Seafood report, published by Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) this week.

The Local Enterprise Office Galway, in collaboration with Bord Iascaigh Mhara and Údarás na Gaeltachta, is busy preparing for the upcoming Beyond the West food and drink showcase, a trade-only event to support Irish producers to get a foothold in the marketplace. This exciting free event will be held on Tuesday March 6 from 10am to 1pm in Galway.

An innovative multi-disciplinary aquaculture project led by NUI Galway and Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) is set to improve production efficiencies and management of farmed fish at several inland freshwater sites.