Inland Fisheries Ireland publishes their River Shannon eel kill “investigation”
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Category: Ardnacrusha hydroelectric station
Ardnacrusha elver traps are not being maintained
The photo below shows the elver trap at Ardnacrusha hydroelectric station at the end of the 2021 season. This vegetation did not grow in a couple of weeks and shows that ESB is not maintaining […]
Lies, damN lies, and eel T&T models
Lies, dam(!) lies, and the ESB’s silver eel Trap and Transport models Trap and Transport (T&T) is where eels are captured and moved around dams and other obstacles. The ESB runs a T&T programme for […]
Ardnacrusha: New boom but no progress with elver trap
I visited the elver trap at Ardnacrusha hydroelectric station on the Lower River Shannon in September 2017. The promised upgrades to the trap were never completed this year by the ESB. All they did here […]
Ardnacrusha elver trap upgrades commence
We had a very productive meeting at Ardnacrusha hydroelectric station today discussing issues in relation to the upgraded elver trap. The trap is now operational but significant work is also being progressed. The completed trap […]
Dead and dying silver eels downstream of Ardnacrusha
The European eel is a critically endangered species. However, thousands are killed passing Ardnacrusha hydroelectric station on the Lower River Shannon each year, despite a ‘trap and transport’ scheme operated by the ESB. This is a […]
Elver run at Ardnacrusha, June 2016
Critically endangered juvenile #eels trying to find a way upstream at Ardnacrusha hydro station on the Lower River Shannon, June 2016. Elvers can’t find this trap/pass. The spillway beside this trap is far more attractive […]
ESB’s elver trap at Ardnacrusha: 1997 and 2014 compared
The 2014 juvenile eel catch on the River Shannon (from both Ardnacrusha and Parteen weir) came to only 354 Kg. This was only about 5% of the peak catches from these sites in the 1980’s, […]
Success in our campaign on the River Shannon
ESB finally commence elver trapping at Ardnacrusha in response to our complaints and exposure of management failures. We would like to confirm that, in response to our campaign on facebook page and our websites, ESB […]
No operating elver traps at Ardnacrusha, May 2014
Further to our previous posts about Ireland’s national elver monitoring stations and traps not being operational, we were genuinely astonished this evening when we visited Ardnacrusha Hydroelectric Station on the Lower River Shannon. Elver traps […]
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