📹 BEFORE & AFTER: Inland Fisheries Ireland has restored 2.8 km of rivers and streams in the Clare catchment.
⬇️ In-stream structures help improve spawning + nursery habitats for fish.
Supported by Cairde an Chláir (cairdeanchlair.org), OPW - Office of Public Works, Local Authority Waters Programme and IFI's Salmon and Sea Trout Rehabilitation, Conservation and Protection Fund.
📽️ Inland Fisheries Ireland is continually investing in the conservation of #Ireland’s iconic natural resource.
Supporting wild Atlantic #salmon through protection, research, habitat restoration, and education output – in partnership: Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and
NASCO.
✨..a "primal instinct to reproduce."
Native #Irish brown #trout migrating & spawning in Lough Corrib - filmed/produced by our #Galway staff.
tinyurl.com/y794kb9w
Salmon Spawning 2023 SM.mp4
⚫ IFI urge the public to report salmon poachers to its hotline this Christmas.
📲 IFI's confidential 24/7 number is: 0818 34 74 24
Read more: tinyurl.com/ydrwsv26
🐟 Watch how #salmon spawn in Ireland's rivers: youtu.be/l1dExqh8vlY
🐟 Witness a wild Atlantic #salmon surging over a waterfall in Co. #Mayo...
⚫️ Inland Fisheries Ireland is committed to preserving these #fish for generations to come.
More info: tinyurl.com/sj2zb5bn
🐟 Atlantic #bluefin tuna ready for release, soon after being tagged in the water.
🏷️ Read about the Tuna (CatcH And Release Tagging) programme: tinyurl.com/25e8625n
📍 #Dingle Bay, Co Kerry.
🗨️ “Every child in Ireland needs to know what is the state of their local river that’s passing their school..."
Prof. Tom Collins, Inland Fisheries Ireland Board Chair, on IFI's multiple roles in supporting #salmon stocks - including the wider educational role.
▶️ Watch: tinyurl.com/3mb5xmrk
#Ireland's wild Atlantic #salmon in action. Leaping a waterfall on the River Moy system.
📽️ Filmed by IFI’s Colin Jinks recently.
IFI salmon conservation:⤵️
http://tinyurl.com/yvndd3dm
🐋 Humpback whale calf, and dolphin friend, spotted by IFI officers while on patrol at Donegal Bay.
An Míol mór dronnach óg, agus cara deilf, a chonaic oifigigh ón IFI ar phatról i gCuan Dhún na nGall.
🎥 Sliabh Liag in Co. #Donegal, captured by IFI officers while on sea patrol.
Sliabh Liag i gContae Dhún na nGall, tógtha ag oifigigh ón IFI agus iad ar patról mara.
Inland Fisheries Ireland officers on sea fisheries patrol encountered this large pod of adult & juvenile dolphins near Tramore Bay, #Waterford coast.
⚫️ IFI officers on sea fisheries patrol encountered this large pod of adult & juvenile #dolphins near Tramore Bay, #Waterford coast.