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…
Category: Shannon salmon management programme
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…
We need to change the management of Parteen fish pass
We want the fish pass at Parteen weir to be opened immediately and left open 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Passage of ‘wild’ fish upstream has to…
Why are salmon numbers in the Shannon so low?
This is Athlone weir on the middle reaches of the River Shannon, during early December 2014. If you ever wanted an example of the scale of ESB’s fisheries management failures…
Ballintra – another impassable ESB dam
This is Ballintra Gates at the outfall of Lough Allen, in the upper River Shannon. This dam has a fish pass that does not work. This is another ESB dam…
Did you know that salmon briefly returned to the upper River Shannon in 1994?
We visited the beautiful Rivers Boyle and Feorish in the upper River Shannon catchment in August 2014 to look for juvenile salmon. We found that there was a good stock…
