Serious threat to Corrib as funding to tackle invasive species is slashed – Connacht Tribune

Galway’s war on weed faces defeat as funding for an important Lough Corrib project dries up.

Cuts to staffing levels and budget of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) will sink efforts to rid Lough Corrib of the invasive pondweed, Lagarosiphon major.

A programme to control the spread of the invasive species on the lake has successfully curtailed the invader, known as Curly African Pondweed, over the past eight years….

Connacht Tribune 09/06/2016  Read the article ‘Serious threat to Corrib as funding to tackle invasive species is slashed’