[email protected] wrote: > The eel fishery on the River Shannon was for many years an important > economic activity, with eel weirs everywhere, eel spears of different > designs and eel boats carrying the produce. The Electricity Supply > Board (ESB) controls the eel fishery (as a by-product of their control > over the lower Shannon at the Ardnacrusha hydroelectric power station) > and many boaters will have seen their eel nets at Killaloe and > Clonlara. > > But the European eel is now a critically endangered species and all > eel fishing has been banned in (the republic of) Ireland. The ESB is > now engaged in "trap and transport" operations, trying to get as many > eels as possible past obstructions (like Ardnacrusha) and down to the > sea, and helping the glass eels upriver when they arrive. > > Here > http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/about/irish-waterways-operations/the-esbs-shannon-eel-fishery/ > > is a page about the ESB eel fishery. > > bjg > > > > ------------------------------------
Now what was that boater doing at Spencer Harbour? :-) He was rather furtive, until he found out we were Brits. -- Neil Arlidge Barge Maurice A / NB Earnest TNC http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/tour.html
