2 November 2020 Ireland has played a “leading role” in the EU-wide failure to end overfishing, a new report concludes. Authored by Policy Officer Fintan Kelly, BirdWatch Ireland published their assessment of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) 2020, and noted in their title that it was a “discarded opportunity”. The Read more…
July 19th, 2018 Almost 15,000 fish are confirmed to have been killed in a suspected chemical poisoning in County Tipperary. Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) has launched an investigation into the incident which occurred along a 5km stretch of the Ollatrim River last week. Among the estimated 14,749 fish found dead last week, 10,500 were lamprey, a Read more…
July 10th, 2018 Inland Fisheries Ireland has issued an appeal to anglers to stop fishing for salmon as the hot weather and drought conditions are putting additional strain on marine life. The appeal, announced last Thursday, was followed by Irish Water’s expansion of the hosepipe ban from the Greater Dublin Read more…
