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…
Category: Atlantic salmon
“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…
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…
The last of the River Shannon salmon?
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…
Let’s get salmon back to the upper River Shannon
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…
Call to disband failed “Shannon Fishery Partnership”
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…
Limerick Navigation Conference
These are the slides from my presentation at the ‘Inland Navigations of Ireland Historical Society’ conference in Tullamore in March 2017. The talk was entitled ‘After Ardnacrusha’ and provided an…
