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 […]
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As few as 2% of elvers may pass Shannon dams
It has recently been reported by Ireland’s independent scientific committee on salmon that the numbers of Annex II listed Atlantic salmon passing the dams on the River Shannon is less than 5% of the conservation […]
Salmon counters – unnecessary eel migration barriers?
Instead of opening up migration pathways for eels (and lampreys) in Ireland, our state agency Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) are, themselves, a major threat to eel and lamprey populations. In 2013 IFI installed this crump […]
Ireland’s elver monitoring sites not operating again
We are very disappointed to report that many of Ireland’s national elver monitoring sites are not operational again this year in time for the elver run. This weekend we visited Inland Fisheries Ireland’s elver monitoring […]
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, […]
What will be done to help elvers on the Shannon this year?
As we head into March, the first runs of glass eels and elvers are arriving at the upper Shannon estuary. Soon they will be migrating up the River Shannon along with tributaries of the Shannon estuary. […]
Decision regarding ESB eel kill outstanding
A decision on whether to prosecute the ESB over a major kill of critically endangered juvenile European eels (or elvers) at their hydroelectric installation on the River Erne in County Donegal is still outstanding. The […]
Low elver catches at ESB dams despite upturn
The ESB have released their elver catch results for 2014, and confirm that the “elver run for the Shannon saw 354kg of elvers caught in total“. This is a very poor catch considering that this was […]
Tour of ESB’s and IFI’s elver traps, Summer 2014
In response to our work earlier in the year where we showed that ESB were not operating elver traps on the River Shannon (at either Ardnacrusha or Parteen) by the first week of May, a […]
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 […]
