Council calls for reopening of hatchery to combat Cork fish kill

The decimation of aquatic life along the Blackwater Valley includes game fish such as salmon and trout, and coarse fish such as roach, dace, eels, and the small stickleback.

Reopening a hatchery which once released 1.25m young salmon and 250,000 young trout every year is the only way to combat the damage done by the biggest fish kill in the history of the state.

That’s according to Cork County Council which is to write to minister in charge of inland fisheries Timmy Dooley requesting he reopen the fish hatchery at Bearforest, Mallow so that fish stocks along a devastated 40km stretches of the River Blackwater and its tributaries in North Cork are rejuvenated.