05-15-2008, 10:27 AM
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[left]From a Survey of Fish Stocks on the R Shannon Ireland:
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[left]In recent years the Shannon Regional Fisheries Board has received complaints regarding the
[left]apparent decline in fish stocks in the River Shannon downstream of ........
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[left]Intensive water quality monitoring conducted in this section of the River Shannon ... over the past number of years has failed to detect any significantly elevated levels of nutrients...Routine monitoring by the EPA has, likewise, failed to detect any contamination ....
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[left][font "Times-Roman"][size 3][font "Times-Roman"][size 3]The results from the present survey, however, clearly demonstrate that this section of the River
[left]Shannon supports a large and sustainable population of coarse fish, ..... The numbers of fish recorded during the survey indicate the presence of a
[left]population that should be capable of satisfying the requirements of an active ..... pleasure fishery.
[left]The decline in angler catch rates, as reported ...., could be explained by the movement or migration of fish from their traditional feeding grounds, areas intensively fished by anglers, to less disturbed and less accessible areas. Such movements have been documents for other
[left]coarse fisheries, ...on the River Shannon and in a number of intensively fished Irish canal sections.
[left]Further evidence for such movements has recently been gleaned for marine fish species along intensively fished beaches on the east coast of Ireland
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[left]From a Survey of Fish Stocks on the R Shannon Ireland:
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[left]In recent years the Shannon Regional Fisheries Board has received complaints regarding the
[left]apparent decline in fish stocks in the River Shannon downstream of ........
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[left]Intensive water quality monitoring conducted in this section of the River Shannon ... over the past number of years has failed to detect any significantly elevated levels of nutrients...Routine monitoring by the EPA has, likewise, failed to detect any contamination ....
[left]
[left][font "Times-Roman"][size 3][font "Times-Roman"][size 3]The results from the present survey, however, clearly demonstrate that this section of the River
[left]Shannon supports a large and sustainable population of coarse fish, ..... The numbers of fish recorded during the survey indicate the presence of a
[left]population that should be capable of satisfying the requirements of an active ..... pleasure fishery.
[left]The decline in angler catch rates, as reported ...., could be explained by the movement or migration of fish from their traditional feeding grounds, areas intensively fished by anglers, to less disturbed and less accessible areas. Such movements have been documents for other
[left]coarse fisheries, ...on the River Shannon and in a number of intensively fished Irish canal sections.
[left]Further evidence for such movements has recently been gleaned for marine fish species along intensively fished beaches on the east coast of Ireland
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