Author: Dennis Moss
Clare river stream enhancements improve potential for increasing Lough Corrib wild fish stocks
Cairde an Chláir, a federation of local Clare river angling clubs Tuam, Cregmore/Athenry and Milltown are delighted to announce another successful year for the collaborative working arrangement with Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI). The state agency for the protection and conservation of fish in Ireland have now completed two 600m headwater nursery stream developments within the…
Extra wild trout and salmon for the Corrib system
Anglers who fish the Corrib or the river Clare, enjoy the benefit of development work which is undertaken by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI). The agency work in collaboration with Cairde an Chláir, a catchment organisation representing angling clubs, stakeholders with fishing interests in the Clare river who share a commitment to improving wild fish stocks…
Quest to improve recruitment of wild fish
Albert Einstein wrote ‘Look deeper into nature, and you will understand everything better‘. Cairde an Chláir prime objective is to improve the recruitment of wild fish. Increasing wild brown trout and salmon stocks in a natural and sustainable way and we do this by providing nature with the tools to achieve this end. Working in…
Spurning Nature
“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.” These words are from a book, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, which…
Answering the Call
Cairde an Chláir is a voluntary, non profit making organisation whose primary objectives are; the enhancement of damaged nursery stream habitat for the reproduction of wild brown and salmon, and the conservation and protection of these fish within the Clare river catchment. All members, including officers perform tasks for Cairde an Chláir on a voluntary…
Another 3000 metres of Nursery Stream Development planned for 2025
Working in collaboration with Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) Cairde an Chláir are proud to announce that 3000 metres of nursery stream development work is planned for 2025. There are four projects which have been prioritised for development in 2025 River section PDF document Abbert river – site 1 Riparian Protection & Fisheries Habitat Enhancement on…
Straight Channels a Transgression of the Law of Nature
The shortest path between two set points is a straight line, nature however, especially where a watercourse is concerned, doesn’t work in straight lines, it doesn’t take the quickest route or the most direct course, nature is a pure process which evolves over time. When the ice receded after the last ice age and temperatures…
Landmark achievement with 3000 metres of nursery stream enhancements for recruitment of wild brown trout and salmon
Working in collaboration with Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), Cairde an Chláir welcomed representatives from organisations involved in the group success of attaining a landmark achievement year, to a photo opportunity to celebrate the completion of 3000 metres of nursery stream habitat enhanced for the recruitment of wild brown trout and salmon in the Clare river…
The Finaway Restoration Project
In late September I walked a development in the Sheelin catchment, a tributary of the Mount Nugent river, the Finaway. Brenda Montgomery, Assistant Inspector, Inland Fishery Ireland (IFI) and Thomas Lynch, secretary Lough Sheelin Trout Protection Association (LSTPA), kindly invited me to walk this development with them and to show me the work which they…
Sheelin 2024
At the turn of the Millennium, Lough Sheelin was a lost soul. Ireland’s anglers had given up on the fishery and the word was, it was finished. How that has now changed, acre for acre this very rich limestone lough is producing more trout in the 50 to 60cm size range than any other fishery…
