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Category: Ardnacrusha

Posted on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022

All the salmon counters at all the ESB dams were down again for all of 2021

No salmon counts are available again for 2021 for any of the ESB dams on the Rivers Shannon, Lee, Erne, Liffey, and Claddy. I had previously exposed that all the…

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Posted on November 10, 2021November 13, 2021

ESB claims that all the salmon counters at their dams “malfunctioned” in 2020

No salmon counts are available for 2020 for the ESB dams on the Lower River Shannon, River Lee, and River Erne. In the ESB Fisheries Conservation annual report (2020), they…

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Posted on January 13, 2020January 13, 2020

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…

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Posted on January 13, 2020February 14, 2020

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…

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Posted on September 26, 2017September 26, 2017

New boom but no further progress with elver trap

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…

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Posted on May 21, 2016April 3, 2018

Highlighting problems on the River Shannon for World Fish Migration Day

World Fish Migration Day is a particular relevant day for the River Shannon; a river with numerous fish passage issues – both due to the presence of the ESB’s dams…

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Posted on March 6, 2016November 9, 2021

Study shows dramatic impact of ESB dams on salmon

A new study just published shows that salmon runs on Shannon are less than five percent of what they should be. This is due to the impact of ESB dams. Essentially the salmon…

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Posted on February 21, 2016April 3, 2018

We need to start managing the Lower Shannon sustainably

The Lower (old) River Shannon downstream of Parteen Regulating Weir is usually provided with a ‘compensation’ flow of just 10 m3 sec-1 (cumecs). However, during the winter of 2015/16 flows in the…

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