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Category: Atlantic salmon

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, 2020January 13, 2020

“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…

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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 June 15, 2018June 17, 2018

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…

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Posted on April 19, 2018August 23, 2018

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…

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Posted on April 18, 2018April 19, 2018

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…

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Posted on December 20, 2017December 20, 2017

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…

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Posted on March 12, 2017March 17, 2017

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…

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