Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Select Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 29 - Climate, Energy and the Environment (Revised)
2:00 am
Darragh O'Brien (Dublin Fingal East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
We have Inland Fisheries Ireland. We have the Loughs Agency, which is the North-South body. I attended the North-South Ministerial Council in Carlingford just this month. There is work that focuses on Lough Foyle, Carlingford Lough and so on. I am trying to see the range of other measures to be helpful. There are the wild salmon and sea trout tagging scheme regulations. The status of each of Ireland's more than 140 salmon rivers is based on management advice we get from IFI, so there are counts done as well. I have draft regulations up in the office to sign in relation to trout. In a couple of areas of the country, we will be restricting the netting of trout based on the counts we have got.
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