Ella McSweeney: il salmone selvatico è sull’orlo della scomparsa dalle acque irlandesi

This has been well documented for years and yet those in power still refuse to act.
Even if all the government carbon targets were met, the impact on global emissions would be insignificant.
Redirecting a small amount of the “Climate Budget” to habitat restoration and conservation would deliver immediate and visible results. Making Ireland a little bit better with each success.

1. Make a meaningful effort to tackle farm effluent runoff. Require farmers to log spreading dates, weather, conditions, quantities etc., to ensure runoff risks are minimised.
Boost grants for biodigesters to reduce effluent runoff.

2. Get serious about protecting watercourses, stop Irish Water, businesses, farmers, and septic tank owners from discharging pollutants into them.

3. Regulate fish farms more stringently, to minimise their impact on wild species like sea trout.

4. Restock rivers with salmon and sea trout, as numbers are probably now too low to recover naturally, this could be funded by a fish farm levy.

5. Audit traditional salmon & sea trout rivers to identify areas of habitat destruction and engage in proactive restoration projects.

6. Properly monitor construction, wind farms, water services, forestry, and farming to prevent further habitat loss. Force those who damage habitats, like spawning beds, to pay for restoration.

7. Ban commercial fishing within the 6 mile limit, to give coastal species like sea trout a chance.

The alarm bells have been going on for so long that the government and 99% of us just hear it as background noise. People often comment that whatever positive carbon footprint the country makes it will be insufficient in global warming. However, we can make a massive difference to our own biodiversity as it faces a massive collapse. Very very little is done to combat things like this or rhododendron decimating our national parks and forests. Go for a walk around kilarney National Park, and you will struggle to find an acre not affected by rhododendron. Unfortunately we elected more neo liberal capitalists into government and destroyed the green party basically ensuring that unless protection of the environment becomes a profitable endeavour we will see massive bio diversity collapse like salmon within the next 5 to 10 years.

Talk to ESB and waterways Ireland.
ESB abstract up to 97% of the Shannon for ardnacruaha, more or less completely preventing salmon migration up countless feeder rivers and tributaries.
It has the same effect on eels and other migratory species.

The fish passes they install are a token gesture to pretend to care but in reality are mostly useless, fish can’t find them or navigate them due to excessively turbulent water.

Although pollution is a significant factor, the above will prevent most salmon ever getting access to many rivers in Ireland.

It’s well known bren studied and raised many times but the government and ESB really don’t care.

It’s just another way that our green country is only green in colour and in reality an ecological desert.

This is an attack on Rural Ireland!!!!!1

midlands peat excavation did a lot of damage too with silt and turbidity., also canalization of breeding rivers, expanding farm acreage results in more drainange and more culverted streams or smooth bottom bridges.. These are all know about, all visible…. for years, still nothing done..