IFI investigating kill of 150 fish on River Suir in Tipperary
The fish kill was witnessed in the Loughmore area, and comes against a backdrop of fish kills in Meath, Dublin, and Cavan in recent weeks.
Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) are investigating a fish kill of 150 animals on the River Suir which occurred in recent days
Pictures of the incident were posted on the Irish Fishing Reddit forum, with the witness saying they’d come across the scene in the Loughmore area outside of Templemore.
IFI said that they attended the scene on Thursday August 6, and found approximately 150 dead fish, almost all brown trout.
The IFI confirmed that live fish have already returned to the location, although no cause for the fish kill has yet been identified.
Other reports among the angling community online said that further upstream, towards the castle there was “a good few trout”, so there are hopes that the incident was relatively confined.
A public meeting is to be held in Cahir on August 26 on the urging of renowned and outspoken angler George McGrath, who is advocating for the health of the River Suir.
The news comes against a backdrop of rising concerns about waterways across the country.
Earlier in August a fish kill of 900 brown trout occurred on the Boycetown River in Meath.
A separate fish kill of 500 trout, eel, stickleback, lamprey, and minnow was seen in Dublin in the last two weeks, and yet another kill of 7,500 fish in the Cavan River in late July.