This year, anglers on the Fane River flowing from Co Monaghan to the Irish Sea below Dundalk will only be able to ‘catch and release’ due to the depletion of stocks, the Sunday Independent has learnt. Inland Fisheries Ireland is to impose the ban for 2016 because of what local anglers say has been a ten-fold decrease in the amount of salmon, brown trout and sea trout being caught in the river system over the past two decades…
Sunday Independent, 03/01/16. Read the full article ‘Provo diesel pollution wiping out salmon‘.
