Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast

**Update**

The information available on gov.ie is apparently inaccurate. According to the department where this application is lodged (and still live) and they are saying that they don't deal with any applications. That they are dealt with by MARA. This is unacceptable as people up and down the West coast are taking the departments publications in good faith and are finding it impossible to get clear, easily accessible information.

Questions still remain as to the scale of the harvesting and the underlying issue that our precious resource is under threat from being harvested by a large corporation. The fact of the matter remains the same: we don't want the coastline stripped of seaweed.
The Fight Continues!



Maps Updated: This application has been submitted to your department, you have the power to stop this.
Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, has put in an application to harvest huge amounts of wrack from swathes of the west coast. Maps are available here.
At the same time Bioatlantis LTD, another large corporation, also has an application in to harvest wrack from the west coast, maps available here.

Handing over the rights to a large corporation would leave communities with no input into how their land and environment was being treated. Seaweed forests are crucial for protecting communities and homes against coastal erosion, providing the bedrock of the food chains, being a nursery for fish populations, while also being a rich part of the heritage and folklore along the west coast.

We don't want our coastlines to be scraped clean of seaweed just so massive corporations can make profits.