Over 1,200 dead fish found along important spawning river in Cork – The Journal.ie

Fisheries Ireland says a large discharge of raw slurry into the Owentaraglin River, a tributary of the Blackwater, is likely to have caused the fish kill.
INLAND FISHERIES IRELAND is investigating after over 1,200 dead fish were found on a spawning tributary to one of our main salmon fishing rivers.

The fish kill is on the Owentaraglin River, a tributary of the Munster Blackwater River, in north-west Cork.

Fisheries officers discovered more than 1,200 fish mortalities over a 2km stretch of the river near the village of Kiskeam….

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