On Seascapes tonight, Lorna Siggins reports from the recent Skipper Expo in Limerick. The show is the biggest gathering of the fishing industry in the country. Ship builders, net makers, on board technology and every aspect of the fishing business is on display.

Lorna also meets the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Charlie McConalogue who tells her about a new initiative to fishers to upgrade their boats and the latest in the decommissioning process following Brexit.

We also hear from Michael Desmond of the National Inshore Fishermans' Associaion; Sally Atkinson of Parkhall Marine Engineers, shipbuilders in Whitby; Jimmy Walsh of Propellers and Marine Engineering in Rosslare and Laurence Kavanagh of Kavanagh nets in Greencastle, County Donegal.

Fergal Keane is in Howth, County Dublin, to hear about a new pier which has just been opened for large trawlers. Chief Engineer at the Department of Agriculture and Marine, Noel Clancy, speaks about the new pier.

And Norman Freeman tells how a shipmate was bitten by a snake which came on board their ship in Africa, and lived to tell the tale.