Sustainable Fisheries Scheme

This scheme is designed for vessel owners other than Small Scale Coastal Fishing (SSCF) vessels, allowing onboard investments, with the following objectives:

• Improve quality: Innovative investments on board that improve the quality of fishery products or add value to fishery products, by allowing fishers to carry out the processing of these catches;
• Improve catch handling
• Enhance traceability: The costs of purchase and installation on board of the components, including computer software, which are necessary to ensure the traceability of fishery products
• Improve hygiene, health and safety: Investments on board that exceed legislative requirements to improve hygiene, health, safety and working conditions provided.
• Improve energy efficiency: Investments in equipment aimed at reducing the emission of pollutants or greenhouse gases and increasing the energy efficiency of fishing vessels. Onboard energy efficiency audits.

Who is Eligible

Owners of non-SSCF fishing vessels:

• which must be registered on the Irish Register of Fishing Boats at the time of grant application, and;
• who must have carried out fishing activities for more than 60 days in the two calendar years preceding the year of submission of the application. This will be cross-checked with SFPA.

Amounts Granted

The support rate under this scheme is 50%.