A large discharge of raw slurry has been blamed for the death of at least 1,200 fish in River Blackwater in North Cork.
Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) received a call to its confidential hotline at 11am on Monday and were on scene at the Owentaraglin river, a tributary of the Munster Blackwater, within a matter of hours.
However, they found the dead fish spread over a 2km stretch of the water near the village of Kiskeam.
IFI said Owentaraglin is an important spawning river. The species affected by the pollution included salmon brown trout, eel, and stickleback….
Irish Examiner 09/12/2016 Read the full article ‘Raw slurry blamed for North Cork fish kill’
