IFI Hotline
Any poaching or pollution incidents witnessed should be reported as soon as possible to the IFI Hotline on 0818 34 74 24 which will put the report through directly to our local IFI officers. If you are leaving a voice mail on the hotline please be sure to leave your contact number or IFI cannot contact you for further details or to verify the call and thus it will not be acted on.
Reporting Pollution Incidents
There are many different organisations involved in the protection of water in Ireland each with similar but different roles and responsibilities.
A National Complaints Line has been put in place to help co-ordinate the response to environmental incidents and complaints as sometimes there are several different organisations who have responsibility to react to the complaint or incident. This should be your first point of contact when reporting a water pollution incident. Make sure you get a reference number, which can be used to track follow up actions.
EPA National Environmental Complaints Line (NECL)
Tel: 1800 365 123, open 24-hours, 7-days per week.
Further guidance on the reporting of pollution incidents can be found in the PDF below from River Basin Management Service.
Please Also Report All Poaching and Pollution to SRT
The Slaney River Trust is pulling together a log of all poaching and pollution incidents reported so that we can monitor what is going on and make the maximum impact in our representations to IFI, the Local Authorities, EPA and Gardai to get the issues sorted out.
It is essential that we are aware of any incidents occurring so please also send a report of any poaching or pollution witnessed to reportslaneypoaching@gmail.com
In your email reporting poaching please provide details of
- the date & time
- the location
- a description of the incident including the number of individuals involved and the nature of the event eg netting, spinning or bait fishing
- any other information that may be useful.
In your email reporting pollution please provide details of
- the date & time
- the location
- a description of the incident and any photographs of its impact
- any other information that may be useful.