Sixty years of failure at Parteen Salmon Hatchery
The ESB salmon hatchery at Parteen weir is open 60 years this year and over that time it has released c.30 million juvenile salmon into the River Shannon. However, runs…
Striving for sustainable management of Ireland's great river
The ESB salmon hatchery at Parteen weir is open 60 years this year and over that time it has released c.30 million juvenile salmon into the River Shannon. However, runs…
These parr are naturally spawned salmon and I found these during an electrofishing survey in the Island River near Ballymoe, Co Galway in August 1998. This river is a tributary…
This is the stretch of the upper River Shannon above Lough Allen. This is a clean upland catchment with considerable salmon production potential. If this river flowed directly into the…
World Fish Migration Day 2018 will take place on the 21st April 2018. Join us in Ormston House, Limerick, at 11am for a discussion on Restoring the River Shannon. For World…
The members of the so-called Shannon Fishery Partnership are meeting in Killaloe today for their annual Christmas dinner. On this day it really is time to call a day on…
I visited the elver trap at Ardnacrusha hydroelectric station on the Lower River Shannon in September 2017. The promised upgrades to the trap were never completed this year by the…
World Rivers Day took place on 24th September 2017 and to mark this day we visited Parteen Regulating Weir to take some aerial photos. The ESB abstract up 400 tonnes…
This fish was caught in Lough Derg in September 1861. It weighed 30.5 LBS. (13.83 KG) and its length was c.42 inches (106.7 cm). It was caught on a copper…