Up to 80,000 salmon worth a total of €2.4m dead in major fish kill in West Cork

Investigations are underway to establish the cause of the mass fish kill incident at Mowi Ireland’s Ahabeg and Roancarrig sites in Bantry Bay. File photo: Andy Gibson.

An estimated 80,000 farmed salmon worth up to €2.4m have been wiped out by a massive toxic plankton bloom off Cork which is being linked to climate change.

Coming as the Government announced its €125bn Climate Action Plan, scientists from the Marine Institute and other experts are now investigating the incident which decimated stock at Mowi Ireland’s fish farm operations in Bantry Bay.