Salmon farming is a multi-billion industry and the sector has assumed the commercial and political clout that success makes possible.

Marine Minister Michael Creed has taken an unprecedented step of “discontinuing” a licence held by Norwegian multinational Mowi, formerly Marine Harvest, to produce farmed salmon in Ballinskelligs Bay, Co Kerry.

Despite various conservation efforts and bans on fishing, we now have fewer wild salmon than even a decade ago and many reasons are being put forward for the continuing decline.

Two new scientific studies suggest that chemicals used to combat pests and diseases in offshore salmon farms may be having a harmful effect on shrimp, lobsters, and other crustaceans.

Now cheap compared to prices once charged, salmon will be on many tables over Christmas. It will be almost all farmed salmon which is being

Kind-hearted youths have been spending their summer holidays saving salmon from dying in dangerously low-levels of warm water in the Boyne river caused by the heatwave.

AS most Irish and European rivers are now closed for normal, wild salmon fishing, a respected Norwegian salmon scientist has called for new thinking on why stocks are seriously dwindling.

Anglers and conservationists throughout Cork, Tipperary, and Waterford were joined by watersports clubs at the weekend to protest the damage to a salmon weir and the risks to migratory fish on the famed Blackwater River.

Humanity’s impact on the world is relentless and nearly always destructive.

The salmon season opened on many rivers yesterday. Older anglers hardy enough — and still romantic enough — to brave the February cold do not even have to look back to their father’s time to remember an abundance seemingly gone forever. Salmon populations have collapsed within living memory. A February salmon, once commonplace, is a

Salmon are paying the price for the resurgence of an endangered killer whale population off the US west coast.

Salmon producers on the west coast have insisted they are not to blame for scores of farmed fish turning up in five renowned rivers.

An organisation opposed to the development of another salmon farm in Bantry Bay says the area is “already overburdened” with them and believes there’s a direct link between such farms and sea lice infestation which can kill wild fish.

A consultant representing a company planning to develop a €3.5m salmon farm in Bantry Bay has told a reconvened oral hearing it will not have a detrimental impact on the general environment or wild fish stocks.

Fears have been expressed that one of the country’s best known angling rivers could soon be devoid of salmon and cost the economy millions of euro in lost revenue.

The life story of the salmon from its birth in an upland stream, in Ireland, to its Atlantic voyage of several thousand kilometres continues to fascinate.

Hefty EU fines could be imposed on Cork County Council which hasn’t the money to build a ‘fish path’ for migrating salmon.

There have been calls for the Department of Agriculture to boost its monitoring of fish farms after new research showed sea trout carry significantly higher levels of sea lice infestation when closer to marine salmon farms.

The upper Lee Valley’s river forest could be transformed into an eco-park, and its salmon population returned, if the ESB were to work with environmental campaigners, says the West Cork Ecology Centre.

Selective breeding can produce salmon resistant to sea lice, according to a study.

The Ombudsman has ordered the State to release a detailed report into a salmon farm accident which resulted in one of the largest ever losses of farmed salmon.

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Bord Iascaigh Mhara has applied for an aquaculture licence to develop a deep-sea salmon farm off Inis Oírr, and is working on two further projects off the west coast to create jobs for local communities, writes Donal Maguire.

A survivor of a serious motorcycle accident has had pioneering surgery to reconstruct his face using a series of 3D printed parts.

A Norwegian company seeking to expand its fish farming operation in West Cork has admitted that severe storms compromised its ability to treat its salmon for sea lice and other diseases last year — prompting environmentalists to say this bolsters their argument for closed containment systems.