Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine, Michael Creed T.D. today announced the award of €4.3 million in grants to 51 seafood enterprises under 5 Schemes launched earlier this year under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) Operational Programme for the seafood sector. The grants are co-funded by the Exchequer and EMFF and subject to terms and conditions.
Minister Creed said, “The EMFF Seafood Development Operational Programme was only adopted in December 2015 and I am delighted that it has so quickly seen these significant investments in our seafood sector provided with the financial supports that will ensure that these critical investments can be implemented. Collectively, these investments will deliver jobs to coastal communities, develop new value added seafood products, develop new markets and further sales for our seafood products, and develop knowledge and new processes in aquaculture production, disease management and animal husbandry. These investments will assist seafood enterprises to contribute to the ambitious growth targets we have set for our processing and aquaculture sectors. I expect to announce further grant offers under these Schemes in the coming months”.
The grant offers are made under 5 EMFF Schemes. For the processing sector, €3.4 million was awarded to 27 enterprises under the Seafood Capital Investment Scheme towards total investment of €19.4 million. These investments are projected to create 316 jobs by 2019 and additional sales of €77 million by 2019. In addition, €157,000 was awarded to 4 enterprises under the Seafood Scaling and New Market Development Scheme towards total investment of €335,000 and €164,000 was awarded to 8 enterprises under the Seafood Innovation and Business Planning Scheme towards total investment of €328,000.
For the aquaculture sector, €199,000 was awarded to 4 enterprises under the Knowledge gateway Scheme towards total investment of €305,000, while €382,000 was awarded to 8 enterprises under the Sustainable Aquaculture Scheme towards total investment of in excess of €1 million.
Further details of the Schemes concerned are available at http://www.bim.ie/schemes.
Note to Editors
Seafood Processing Capital Investment Scheme
Beneficiary County Total Investment
€ Grant Approved
€
Shellfish De La Mer Cork €311,781 €77,945
CSI Seafood t/a Carr Shellfish Cork €80,000 €12,000
Castletownbere Fishermens Co-op Cork €921,166 €230,291
Keohane Seafood Ltd Cork €1,587,636 €300,000
Ballycotton Seafoods Ltd Cork €266,157 €66,539
Good Fish Processing (Carrigaline) Ltd. Cork €750,000 €187,500
Burren Smokehouse Ltd. Clare €142,675 €35,668
Rockabill Seafood Ltd Dublin €1,023,955 €255,988
H.J. Nolan Seafoods Dublin Dublin €461,630 €115,407
Dunns Seafare Ltd Dublin €667,330 €166,832
Kish Fish Ltd Dublin €124,400 €18,660
Errigal Bay Donegal 1,933,284 €200,000
Atlanfish Ltd Donegal €105,000 €26,250
Island Seafoods Ltd Donegal €674,250 €101,137
Irish Fish Canners Donegal €62,400 €15,600
Fruits of the North Atlantic(Ireland) Ltd Donegal €145,600 €36,400
Dundalk Bay Seafoods Ltd Louth €49,500 €12,375
Seafood Processors Ltd t/a Morgans Louth €312,444 €78,111
Norfish Ltd Donegal €1,299,875 €194,981
Bio Atlantis Ltd Kerry €987,951 €246,987
Oilean Mara Teoranta T/A Irish Seaspray Galway €707,796 €176,949
Breizon Teo Galway €121,800 €18,270
Carr & Sons Seafood Mayo €598,767 €149,691
Connemara Seafoods Frozen Ltd Mayo €185,290 €46,322
Bio-Marine Ingredients Ireland Ltd Monaghan €3,857,000 €300,000
O Flaherty Brothers Ltd. T/A Saltees Fish Wexford €40,351 €6,052
Sofrimar Ltd Wexford 1,674,334 €300,000
Goatsbridge Fish Processors Kilkenny €258,051 €64,512
Marine Health Foods Ltd Wicklow €95,500 €23,875
Total 19,445,923 3,464,349
Seafood Scaling & New Market Development Scheme
Beneficiary County Total Investment
€ Grant Approved
€
Approved
Connemara Seafoods Frozen Ltd., Irish Seaspray, Iasc Mara Teo. Mayo 85,750 42,875
Breizon Teo., Mullaghmore Seafarm Ltd., West Coast Crab Sales Ltd. Galway 49,000 24,500
Jade Ireland Seafood Ltd.
(Sofrimar, Carr Shellfish Ireland, McBride Fishing Co. Ltd., Shellfish Ireland) Wexford 120,550 50,000
Kish Fish Company Ltd., Thomas Mulloy Ltd. Dublin 80,000 40,000
Total 335,300 157,375
Seafood Innovation & Business Planning Scheme
Beneficiary County Total Investment
€ Grant Approved
€
Approved
Castletownbere Fishermens Co-op Ltd Cork 40,000 20,000
Keohane Seafoods Ltd Cork 40,000 20,000
Shellfish Del La Mer Ltd Cork 30,400 15,200
Kish Fish Company Ltd Dublin 37,600 18,800
Connemara Seafood Frozen Ltd Galway 36,696 18,348
Sofrimar Ltd Wexford 40,000 20,000
Bio-Marine Ingredients Ireland - Collective (Island Seafoods) Monaghan 80,000 40,000
Good Fish Processing Carrigaline Ltd Cork 23,350 11,675
Total 328,046 164,023
Knowledge Gateway Scheme
Beneficiary County Total Investment
€ Grant approved
€
Saltspray Mussel Tech.Ltd. Cork 22,868 11,434
Irish Mussel Seed Company Ltd Wicklow 20,057 10,028
Clew Bay Oyster Co-op Soc.Ltd. Mayo 173,250 129,937
Bord Na Mona Offaly 57,763 28,881
TOTAL 305,138 180,281
Sustainable Aquaculture Scheme
Beneficiary County Total Investment
€ Grant approved
€
Caragh Clams Limited Kerry 35,690 14,276
Lydon, Mr.Michael Mayo 31,685 12,674
Iasc Sliogagh Dun Garbhain TA Dungarvan Shellfish Ltd Waterford 253,231 101,292
Comhlucht Iascaireacht Fanad Teo. Donegal 312,496 93,749
Sofi Shellfish Limited Mayo 138,955 55,582
Diver, Mr. Derek Donegal 226,510 90,604
Connemara Seafoods Limited. Mayo 3,500 1,400
Sliogéisc Inisheane Teoranta Donegal 32,843 13,137
TOTAL 1,034,912 382,715