Further to our reports of incompetence from the ESB in operating elver traps on the River Shannon, we were at least happy to know that elver traps were being operated at the ESB Hydroelectric Station […]
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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 […]
Sustainable eel management for the River Shannon
I attended attended a meeting of the Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) in London this week, and it is was compelling to hear first-hand about the huge runs of glass eels and elvers in the UK […]
Fishing for trout using elvers in Limerick City
You know that the elvers have arrived in Limerick when the locals start fishing for trout from the bridges in the city using elvers as bait. Elvers are collected at low tide and are mounted […]
National elver monitoring sites not operating
With rising water temperatures this week, we are now well into the elver migration season. However, we visited four of Ireland’s national juvenile eel monitoring sites this week and found that three out of the […]
The return of the eel?
The European eel is currently staging a remarkable comeback, with record numbers of juvenile eels arriving to the European coast from the Sargasso Sea for the third consecutive year. The reasons for the change in […]
Millions of glass eels in the Shannon estuary
Following on from the reports from the UK and other European countries that there are record numbers of glass eels arriving to European shores for the third year running, we can confirm what appears to […]
Record glass eel runs again this year
In 2013 the number of glass eels recorded arriving in UK rivers was the best for two decades. Likewise, visual observations on the River Shannon by our staff confirmed that there was a massive run […]
Sustainable Eel Group approach needed for Ireland
We believe that it is time for Ireland to adopt the Sustainable Eel Group approach; particularly on the River Shannon. As we enter into what is probably going to be the third consecutive year of […]
River Shannon eel report
The report ‘Biology and Management of European Eel (Anguilla anguilla, L) in the Shannon Estuary, Ireland‘ is now available on-line at this site. This report was originally submitted as a PhD thesis to the Zoology Department, […]
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