World Fish Migration Day 2020
World Fish Migration Day is celebrated every other year to raise global attention to the need for restored river connections for migrating fish to achieve healthier fish stocks and more…
Author: Dr. Will O'Connor
Dr. Will O’Connor is a Senior Ecologist who has over 25 year’s professional experience. He is a graduate of the University of Wales, Cardiff, and the National University of Ireland, Galway. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, and a full member of both the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management and the Institute of Fisheries Management. He is a Chartered Environmentalist and a Chartered Biologist.
Parteen Regulating Weir, January 2020
Parteen Regulating Weir, January 2020. This weir severs the Lower River Shannon SAC. For the last few months ESB Networks have been abstracting c.97% of the water in the river…
Sustainable management is not too much to ask for
We will never be able to remove the dams at Ardnacrusha and Parteen – too much development has taken place on the flood plains. I took this drone shot in…
The Shannon Scheme does not provide “Green Energy”
It’s not “green energy” when when you have no effective fish passes, no fish screens, have never completed an Environmental Impact Assessment and are abstracting >96% of the flow from…
“Falls of Doonass”, January 2020
Lower River Shannon “Falls of Doonass”, January 2020. The old “Moreek” pool is also featured – formerly part of the internationally renowned Hermitage salmon fishery. Over 96% of the flow…
Ardnacrusha fish pass never worked
This newspaper cutting from July 1962 claimed that the new fish pass at Ardnacrusha – which had just been installed – was a success. Of course we now all know…
No way downstream for kelts on the Shannon
The fish pass at Ardnacrusha of the Lower River Shannon lets very few salmon upstream, but for those salmon that find their way through to the upper Shannon to spawn…
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…
