Tonight on Seacapes

17th April 2009

Tonight's RTE Seascapes radio programme at 10.30pm reports on Killybegs fishermen prevented from fishing in their own waters plan to go to South America. In a separate item on Tom MacSweeney's show, he features the 200-year-old sailing tradition on Rathlin Island.

The show also features:

• Voyaging to the deep canyons in the Porcupine to study coral

• The 200-year-old sailing tradition on Rathlin Island

• An Irish Shipping Flag found in Ghana

• The latest angling news

• The ‘scandal’ of the eel fishery closure

• News

SEASCAPES, presented by RTE’s Marine Correspondent, Tom MacSweeney and produced by Marcus Connaughton, is repeated at 5.02 a.m. on Monday mornings on RTE Radio 1. The programme is also available as a Podcast and is broadcast twice a week on the Digital Station, RTE Choice, on Wednesday mornings at 7.30 a.m. and Saturday lunchtimes at 12.30 p.m.

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