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Category: Eel management plan

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 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 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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Posted on December 18, 2014

Parteen weir, December 2014

These are some selected photos of Parteen weir on the Lower River Shannon which were taken during December 2014. Parteen weir regulates the water flow in the Old River Shannon and diverts…

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Posted on April 6, 2014September 22, 2014

The return of the eel

The European eel is currently staging a remarkable comeback, with record numbers of juvenile eels arriving to the European coast from the Sargasso Sea for the third consecutive year. The…

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