Fly fishing for
salmon, River Nore, September 2007
25th May 2011 - SWIRL Conference
Remarks by Niall Greene, Chair of Salmon Watch Ireland to the Annual General
Meeting of the company held at the Silver Springs Hotel, Cork on Saturday, 21 May 2011.
Click here to download full pdf document.
10th May 2011 - SWIRL Conference
Salmon Watch Ireland Annual Conference 2011
SWIRL's Annual Conference will
be held on Saturday 21st May 2011 at Silver Springs Moran Hotel, Tivoli, Cork.
Schedule may be downloaded from the
Salmon Watch Ireland website, here...
3rd March 2011 - Significant Press Release from IFI
IFI dismayed with DAFF Sea Lice report
Inland Fisheries Irelands(IFI) scientists warn that the recommendations from the “National Implementation Group Report
on a strategy for improved pest control on Irish salmon farms” are disappointing and are insufficient to protect wild salmon and sea
trout. ...
Read the full article here...
10th May 2011 - IFI Press Release
Irish Salmon set new record
Inland Fisheries Ireland in
partnership with Norwegian scientists conducted a pilot salmon tagging programme where kelts (previously spawned adult salmon returning to sea)
from the Blackwater and Suir rivers were fitted with satellite tags in order to investigate their marine movements and feeding
location...
Read full
report at IFI website, here...
20th February 2011 - Andrew Flitcroft article from The Observer
You're so wrong about salmon, Mr Salmond: the new trade deal with China has terrifying implications for our wild fish stocks
Visiting trade delegations do not often register on my radar. However, the high-level Chinese visit to Scotland in January was different.
Apart from the inevitable "gift" to the hosts, consigning two hapless giant pandas to a life of incarceration in Edinburgh Zoo, a new trade
deal on Scottish farmed salmon between the two countries was signed, allowing access for the first time to the vast Chinese market...
Read the full article
here...
publications
The Nore Suir River Trust
Strategy Plan: 'Why do the Nore and Suir Need a River Trust'
- download here.
The Barrier Report: '
Assessment
of Fish Passage and the Ecological Impact of Migration Barriers on
the River Nore Catchment', Alan Sullivan BSc MIFM.
- download here.
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