The Seafood Sector in Ireland: Economic Impacts of Seafood Production Growth Targets
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This paper examines the potential economic impact of the Irish government strategy
for the development of the seafood sector in Ireland, Food Harvest 2020 (FH2020).
The seafood industry accounts for a large proportion of income and employment in
peripheral coastal areas. Many of these regions are predominantly rural and they are
largely dependent on the primary fisheries sector. Moreover, the services and retail
businesses in these areas are heavily dependent on direct spending from the fisheries,aquaculture and seafood processing sectors. A social accounting matrix (SAM)
approach with (1) set to zero purchase coefficients for all directly impacted industries and (2) changes in output converted to final demand shocks is used to calculate the economic and employment impact on the rest of the economy from an increase in the output in the fisheries, aquaculture and seafood processing sectors in Ireland. The results suggest fisheries sectors have strong links with the rest of the economy hence an important economic impact from a policy perspective.