Alteration work on weir blamed for salmon deaths

FISHERIES board staff yesterday began work on temporary modifications to a weir which local fishermen claim is damaging one of the country’s most popular salmon rivers because it is too high for the fish.

Local fishermen at the River Nore claim that hundreds of salmon which have not managed to spawn are dying because they are exhausted from trying to negotiate the controversial weir.

A month after the problem was first highlighted, Southern Regional Fisheries Board (SRFB) staff spent yesterday putting in a temporary solution to the problem.