Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 April 2024

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland

9:30 am

Dr. Cathal Gallagher:

Over recent years, we have been developing an open data portal, which is available on our website. People can go into a live map and click on their local area. They can click on a dot on the map and pull up information on the fish populations there. I mentioned the water framework directive. We have made available, through our website, a water framework directive fish website. This website also has survey reports that detail particular local catchments. If people are interested in their local catchment, they can go in there and find information. Other reports are available and published annually about salmon and the status of salmon stocks.

There is a range of different reports but what we are trying to do is consolidate those into one map, where one can get all of the information easily by clicking on it. That has been a work in progress over the last few years.