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15/08/2012
Test Results Expected On 'Significant' Fish Kill
Inland Fisheries Ireland hope test results will reveal the cause of a significant fish kill on the Kiltha river in Castlemartyr, east Cork, last weekend.
"Many thousands" of brown trout, including trout fry, parr and adults, along with salmon fry and parr, brook lamprey, stickleback and stone loach were killed, the IFI have said
Anglers reported the kill late last Saturday on a 5.5km section of the Kiltha from Mogeely downstream to its confluence with the Dower river.
It was investigated last Sunday morning, the IFI said, and had been traced to a pollutant of a "toxic nature". It said several "potential sources" of the pollutant were being investigated.
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"Many thousands" of brown trout, including trout fry, parr and adults, along with salmon fry and parr, brook lamprey, stickleback and stone loach were killed, the IFI have said
Anglers reported the kill late last Saturday on a 5.5km section of the Kiltha from Mogeely downstream to its confluence with the Dower river.
It was investigated last Sunday morning, the IFI said, and had been traced to a pollutant of a "toxic nature". It said several "potential sources" of the pollutant were being investigated.
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