Coastal Zone Management
The Coastal Zone Division ensures that Ireland's coastal zone is used in a sustainable way to the best advantage of the Irish People from an economic, aquacultural, leisure, social and environmental perspective.What is in this section?
- Fish Health
- Program for Implementation for Aquaculture of Dangerous Substances Directive - Public Consultation
- Aquaculture Licensing
- Applications for Dumping at Sea
- Contact Us
- Dumping at Sea
- Dumping of Dredge Spoil at Sea
- Foreshore Administration
- Forms and Downloads
- Offshore Energy
- Shellfish Waters Directive
Misson Statement
To provide for the efficient and effective control of commercial operations, including the construction of public infrastructure, and leisure operations on the foreshore.
The Strategic Objectives of the Coastal Zone Management Division are:
- to assist in the development of a National Integrated Coastal Zone Management Strategy;
- to secure a fair commercial return from the State's foreshore estate;
- to facilitate the necessary upgrading of major national infrastructure and the sustainable development of aquaculture;
- to progressively reduce arrears in the clearing of licence applications; and
- to minimise the dumping of dredged material at sea and to encourage beneficial re-use of such material (e.g. for land reclamation, beach nourishment, etc.).
