Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is investigating three separate incidents in Cork and Kerry, including a major fish kill involving several hundred dead fish.<\/p>\n
The largest incident occurred at Curraghalicky Lake near Dunmanway, where several hundred juvenile bream have been found dead.<\/p>\n
A number of State agencies have joined the investigation under a new national inter-agency protocol for responding to significant fish kills.<\/p>\n
They include the Environmental Protection Agency, Cork County Council, the Marine Institute, and the River Basin Management Service.<\/p>\n
Separately, the IFI is investigating a suspected pollution incident on the Ross River at Killavullen, Co Cork, following reports of significant discolouration in the water.<\/p>\n
No fish deaths have been reported in connection with that incident.<\/p>\n
The report was made through IFI’s 24-hour confidential hotline and Cork County Council has also been notified.<\/p>\n
In a third incident, IFI is investigating a suspected pollution event on the Deenagh River in Killarney, Co Kerry.<\/p>\n
While no dead fish have been reported, Kerry County Council, the National Parks and Wildlife Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency are assisting with the investigation.<\/p>\n
IFI said it continues to monitor and assess the impact of all three incidents.<\/p>\n
The agency urged members of the public to report suspected fish kills or pollution incidents to its confidential hotline on 0818 34 74 24.<\/p>\n
IFI is responsible for more than 74,000km of rivers and streams, 128,000 hectares of lakes, and coastal waters stretching 12 nautical miles offshore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is investigating three separate incidents in Cork and Kerry, including a major fish kill…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,246,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-543801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-environment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}