Blackwater fish kill has 'an unjust and negative impact' on stocks, committee to hear

EPA director Tom Ryan is expected to say that when 'detrimental incidents' like the Blackwater kill occur, and where the wrongdoer can be identified, 'then they should be held to account'

The events on the Blackwater in early August, which saw 30,000 salmon and brown trout killed, comprised an event that is 'not to be tolerated', the EPA director will say. Picture: Dan Linehan

Ireland’s worst-ever fish kill in the River Blackwater has had an “unjust and negative impact” on the locality’s communities, according to the State’s environmental regulator.

The director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Tom Ryan, is set to tell an Oireachtas committee that the events on the Blackwater in early August, which saw 30,000 salmon and brown trout killed, comprised an event that is “not to be tolerated”.