16/8/2025

 

August 16: 2025. Waterville boats of watervilleboats@gmail.com reported that the Killarney fly anglers were out trout fishing and caught 20 Brown on the drift then hell broke lose and had to head back in Waterville boats harbour because of thunder and lightning and no the flie. Just for the record there were boats out and there were no reports of any C&R Salmon or Seatrout. Now were head for the Currane wind chart of the day, wind moderate to fresh ESE veered SE and very humid and cloudy. Yesterday’s weather amount of rainfall none, maximum air temperature 25.1°C, amount of sunshine 10 hours and 10 minutes. Nowe head for the Salmon Tragedy In Co Cork I was aked to put it up Thanks for updating the press release so promptly this morning. Since then I have discussed the situation a number of times today with our chairman. We have come up with an estimation as to how many are dead or in the process of dying. See below.  THE ESTIMATION IS 46,000. This is the headline figure we have discussed with RTE (Eileen Heron Country Wide RTE Radio 1)today in advance of further interviews tomorrow with Conor and a Biological expert, Dr Ken Whelan and the figure I intend to use when contacting National, International and local media. Helen had no idea before our conversations of the scale of this. I believe that the media last Monday / Tuesday have either been misinformed or misled and that they should be made aware of the full scale of this unmitigated tragedy. I will leave it up to you as to whether you want to include in your press release even with some caveats but it would be really helpful if you could as I believe a headline figure of 46,000 dead fish from a source that neither the IFI or EPA have failed to disclose some 4 days o So the story so far in figures. Thursday evening Lombardstown,  Mallow and killavullen clubs recovered approx 3500 fish from the river blackwater. There was the same volume in the river that were in water too deep to recover. That's approx 7000 fish.There was also the same amount observed still swimming but obviously affected...That'  s 10,500 fish. Allow perhaps 10% for predation from birds etc and it totals over 11,500 fish. This was only covering approx one quarter of the affected stretch which spans some 30km.So, 11,500 x 4 which totals approx 46,000 is the actual number of what has been affected so far....and it is still ongoing.