Mulkear LIFE’s salmon run photo is a hoax
We shared a photo this week of salmon leaping the weir at Annacotty on the River Mulkear, Limerick, on our Facebook page. We shared this photo from MulkearLIFE’s website in good…
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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…
River Brosna Special Area of Study 2014
Introduction The River Brosna has a catchment area of 1,273km2 and is the 3rd largest tributary of the River Shannon. It rises in Lough Owel north of Mullingar and flows through Mullingar into…
Is angling a threat to salmon recovery on the Shannon?
The Lower River Shannon is currently managed as a ‘catch and release’ river, where only hatchery fish can be retained. However, there is currently a significant possibility that the salmon…
Poaching and illegal fishing on the Lower River Shannon
We have had a number of reports in again regarding illegal fishing and netting on the Castleconnell Fishery recently. On one day one angler told me that he saw five…
The failure of the Ardnacrusha fish-lift
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…
Why are there no salmon in the upper Shannon? : Reason 3
One of the main problems facing salmon in the River Shannon after the Shannon scheme was opened was that the main flow of water was now coming out of the…
