Downtime 24th/25th November

Inland Fisheries Ireland, through its newly announced national barriers programme, is addressing the issue of water quality and particularly in reference to hydromorphological impacts as outlined in Ireland’s third cycle of the river basin management plan. Government funding of €110 million has been approved for this initiative to remove, mitigate…

Inland Fisheries Ireland is urging anglers, and the general public, to report sightings of Pacific pink salmon in Irish rivers over the coming months. In 2017, 2019 and 2021 this non-native fish species unexpectedly appeared in unprecedented numbers in multiple river systems in the southwest, west and northwest of Ireland….

The spawning migration of shad into rivers along the south coast in the late spring/early summer is an annual highlight in the calendar of many anglers. Anglers are a very important source of knowledge about shad, and their observations can make a significant contribution to conservation of this species, which…