More than 4,500 fish are suspected to have died in a fish kill in a Co Cavan river.<\/p>\n
Officers from Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) observed “significant numbers” of dead trout, coarse fish and eels along a 2km stretch of the Cavan town river.<\/p>\n
Brown trout, European eel, roach, lamprey and minnow, as well as freshwater crayfish, were among the species of fish found dead.<\/p>\n
IFI received reports of the fish kill late on Tuesday and attended the site yesterday morning.<\/p>\n
An interagency group including Cavan County Council, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Marine Institute, and the National Parks and Wildlife Service met yesterday to coordinate the investigation into the fish kill.<\/p>\n
The group said it was too early to definitively establish the cause of the fish kill in the Co Cavan river.<\/p>\n
In August last year, some 32,000 salmon and trout were killed in a major fish kill in Co Cork.<\/p>\n
The fish kill occurred in a 37km stretch of the River Blackwater near Mallow.<\/p>\n
The interagency group set up to investigate that fish kill could not identify a cause.<\/a><\/p>\n