Striving for sustainable management of Ireland's great river
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…
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…
As part of our River Brosna Special Area of Study 2014, we visited the small hydroelectric station on the River Brosna at Clara on the 30th June 2014. This site…
We visited the site of the new Larinier fish pass at the Mill Weir on the River Fergus at Ennis this week as part of an ongoing review we are…
One of the key environmental issues on hydroelectric schemes with diverted river stretches, such as the lower River Shannon, is that discharges are at a consistent uniform low flow for…
The Shannon is a wide and slow-flowing river with only a limited number of shallow stretches (as we all know). Indeed, from Battlebridge just south of Lough Allen to Killaloe…
The fish pass at Ardnacrusha is a Borland type vertical fish-lift. The bottom chamber and the vertical shaft are built in an area which was left for a 6th turbine…
River lamprey Lampetra fluviatilis is listed under Annex II of the EU Habitats Directive. River lampreys cannot pass crump weirs. It is of concern that these crump weirs are being installed on…
Old River Shannon Foundation 