Salmon fishing ban at poaching blackspot

A THREE-MILE stretch of the Shannon River near Limerick city has been declared a poaching black-spot.

Salmon fishing ban at poaching blackspot

The Shannon Regional Fisheries Board has deployed extra fisheries officers to patrol the river banks between the Black Bridge at Plassey and Thomond Bridge.

Eamon Cusack, chief executive officer of the board, claimed thousands of salmon may have been taken from that part of the Shannon in recent years.

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