Over the weekend of the 5th of January the Slaney River Trust received a report of a fish kill in upper waters of the Boro with many small dead silver fish. The worst was feared and it looked like we had a damaging kill on our hands. IFI’s Stephen Byrne and Donnagha Byrne were quickly on the scene and confirmed the presence of of 2-300 dead fish.
Incredibly they turned out to be sprats – a sea fish! Why anyone would dump dead sea fish in a river is beyond comprehension. While the good news is that there was no damage done to an important nursery area on the Boro, this is another indication of the scale of the litter problem in the country. Many thanks to IFI for the speedy response!
