Catastrophic decline of wild Irish salmon
Published print and online on April 30, 2024, in The Irish Times.
Fintan O’Toole wrote an article titled “The catastrophic decline of wild Irish salmon is another of the slow scandals of Irish life.”
A brilliant piece highlighting the scandalous situation that has been allowed to happen to Ireland’s waterways.
“Salmon are vastly more sensitive to this pollution than we are. They literally sniff it out. Their superpower is olfactory. If you dip your hand for a moment in a river, salmon many miles downstream will smell it and start to flee. They locate their river of origin largely by sensing its unique chemical odour and detecting the pheromones released into the water by other salmon.”