€230k funding to enhance top salmon habitats

Inland Fisheries Ireland yesterday approved €230,000 for a number of projects aimed at enhancing some of the country’s top salmon habitats.

The funding will assist a series of small and large-scale schemes such as spawning ground enhancement, repairs to weirs, river bank protection, fencing to restrict livestock access to rivers, and the removal and control of exotic invasive species.

The rivers to benefit are Castletown, Fane, Dee, Boyne, and Vartry in the north-east; Nore and Suir in Kilkenny and Tipperary; the Blackwater in Cork; Lower Shannon; Newport in Mayo; and the Glen and Crana in Donegal.