“The herring are not in the tides as they were of old,” wrote WB Yeats as long ago as the late 1880s. “The headwinds facing the sector show no evidence of relenting. Quite the contrary,” wrote Kieran Mulvey, more prosaically, almost 150 years later in a report this June.  The report on the Irish fisheries sector was commissioned by Timmy Dooley, minister of state with special responsibility for fisheries.  The State is concerned about fisheries, and the report by the State’s chief industrial-relations fixer Mulvey may not reassure it. He noted “a profound sense of unease within the seafood/fishery sector…

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