{"id":574541,"date":"2026-07-29T23:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574541\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T23:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:19:08","slug":"more-than-4500-fish-found-dead-in-major-river-kill-in-co-cavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574541\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 4,500 fish found dead in major river kill in Co Cavan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORE THAN 4,500 fish have been found dead in Co Cavan, prompting an investigation by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) and other agencies.<\/p>\n<p>IFI said officers observed large numbers of dead fish over a 2km stretch of the Cavan town river after receiving a report through its hotline late on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Among the species found dead were brown trout, European eel, roach, lamprey and minnow, as well as freshwater crayfish.<\/p>\n<p>IFI said it is leading a multi-agency investigation under the national protocol for significant fish kills, working alongside Cavan County Council, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Marine Institute and the National Parks and Wildlife Service.<\/p>\n<p>An interagency group met on Wednesday to coordinate the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the ecological incident has not yet been established.<\/p>\n<p>IFI has urged anyone with information relating to fish kills, water pollution, habitat destruction or illegal fishing to contact its confidential 24-hour hotline on 0818 34 74 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORE THAN 4,500 fish have been found dead in Co Cavan, prompting an investigation by Inland Fisheries Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[242372,242373,242374,56769,5939,10913,61,10914,60,242375,242376,43,242377],"class_list":["post-574541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cavan-town","tag-co-cavan","tag-crayfish","tag-eel","tag-fish","tag-fish-kill","tag-ie","tag-inland-fisheries-ireland","tag-ireland","tag-lamprey","tag-minnow","tag-news","tag-roach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574541","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=574541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}