• Weekly Update 01 December 24

    Posted by John Murphy on November 30, 2024

    This update contains some interesting topics which Salmon Watch Ireland would like to highlight to our members and supporters. Mc Swynes Bay – Salmon Farming Licence The ongoing saga surrounding the attempts by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to renew and review extant licences for existing salmon farms continues with Mc Swynes […]

  • Weekly Update

    Posted by John Murphy on November 23, 2024

    Salmon Watch Ireland attended a webinar concerning land based aquaculture systems. The discussion was both interesting and informative. Our goal here is to see salmon farming move on-land for the entire production cycle and it was interesting to see that hybrid systems utilising sea water (Flow Through) and RAS in combination worked effectively. The major […]

  • Deenish Island – Re-establishment ongoing

    Posted by John Murphy on November 4, 2024

    Deenish Island salmon farm is currently undergoing extensive upgrading (October 2024) for the next stocking of smolts in February 2025, despite being ordered to close in 2019. This demonstrates the very obvious failings of government bureaucracy whereby the appeal against closure is ongoing for nearly six years. It is depressing that such a situation is […]

  • Posted by John Murphy on November 3, 2024

    The  Marine Institute Year in Review 2023 includes a comprehensive count of wild salmon and sea trout for 2023 and demonstrates a declining and unstable population of wild salmon and dramatic population collapse of sea trout. The data covering the period 2019 to 2023 demonstrates a declining trend of survival at sea for wild salmon […]