{"id":42823,"date":"2019-01-16T06:31:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42823"},"modified":"2019-01-16T06:31:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T11:31:34","slug":"warmer-waters-leave-irish-anglers-fishless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42823","title":{"rendered":"Warmer waters leave Irish anglers fishless"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warmer waters leave Irish anglers fishless<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Anglers\u2019 prize: But the salmon is not doing well in Irish waters. Image:\u00a0 Via Wikimedia Commons [public domain]<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Irish anglers are having little luck as fish feel the effects of warmer waters \u2212 which are also increasing greenhouse gases.<\/strong><\/p>\n

WEST OF IRELAND, 16 January, 2019<\/em> \u2212 Unusually high temperatures in 2018 have left many Irish anglers frustrated as fish struggle to survive in the Emerald Isle\u2019s lakes and rivers, with the rising heat also causing an increase in methane emissions.<\/p>\n

Now changes in climate could threaten the anglers\u2019 activities, putting in jeopardy what is a multi-million euro leisure industry.<\/p>\n

Inland Fisheries Ireland<\/a> (IFI), a state agency, says that a heat wave across Ireland in the summer of 2018 caused temperatures in the country\u2019s lakes and rivers to rise to what it describes as lethal levels for a number of freshwater fish species.<\/p>\n

The IFI\u2019s findings, reported in the Irish Times<\/a> newspaper, indicate that the two most affected species were salmon and trout \u2013 both prized by the freshwater fishing community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 2018 summer water temperatures need to be considered in the context of climate change predictions\u201d, Cathal Gallagher, the IFI\u2019s head of research, told the Irish Times.\u201cIf temperatures continue to increase, sensitive cold water fish species will be at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

Long heat<\/strong><\/p>\n

The warming trends were most noted in the west of Ireland, says the IFI. One of the worst affected rivers was the Owenriff in County Galway<\/a>, where temperatures well above summer time norms were recorded over a prolonged period.<\/p>\n

Dr Gallagher says high temperatures could lead to localised extinction of native fish diversity in the future; there would be knock-on economic losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would reach a stage where the Owenriff catchment or similar catchments become inhospitable to brown trout and salmon over the summer period in the near future.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Warmer waters leave Irish anglers fishless Anglers\u2019 prize: But the salmon is not doing well in Irish waters. Image:\u00a0 Via Wikimedia Commons [public domain] Irish anglers are having little luck as fish feel the effects of warmer waters \u2212 which are also increasing greenhouse gases. WEST OF IRELAND, 16 January, 2019 \u2212 Unusually high temperatures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,9245,6482,369,1512,23978,11711],"class_list":["post-42823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-news-network","tag-fishing","tag-global-warming","tag-ireland","tag-kieran-cooke","tag-warming-oceans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42824,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42823\/revisions\/42824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}