A director of Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI), Sean Long has described a fish kill on the environmentally sensitive River Allow in Cork at the weekend as “heartbreaking for the community”.
An investigation is being conducted by IFI, the State agency responsible for the protection and conservation of freshwater fish and habitats, into the incident in which at least 5,000 fish have died.
Mr Long told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland that the IFI received a call on Sunday afternoon about a spillage at a nearby water treatment plant.
“A local senior fisheries environmental officer went to the location and began an inspection of the river downstream of the plant. And unfortunately, he was met with a scene of devastation, really the only way to describe it. And the river was littered with dead fish, trout, salmon fry, lamprey, eel. There were no insects, even flies, beetles, anything.
“Any indicators of life. And as anyone who looked into the river will know, it’s a living, dynamic…
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