Mounting concern at Inland Fisheries Ireland about decline in wild salmon population
Numbers of the fish here peaked in the mid-1970s, when about 1.7 million returned. Today returns are estimated at some 200,000. The reported catch is between 28,000 and 30,000, confirmed Dr Byrne, with 8,000 caught commercially and the rest from recreational angling. “We are deeply concerned about salmon abundance levels,” he said.
The easy answer would be to blame sea lice and fish farming which can be significant factors in a particular year, but the reality is more complex. Marine survival peaked in or around 1986, with approximately 31 of every 100 which set out on the perilous journey from an Irish river to the Atlantic returning.
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