(EcoEye S7, E1)
Item 1: Salmon Protection & Angling in North Mayo
Item 2: Bathing Water Quality & Blue Flag Beaches
Item 3: Household Waste
Posts Tagged ‘fishing’
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Episode 01
Episode 06
(Eco Eye s1/e6)
The Big Picture
The days when fish were seen as a limitless resource are long gone. In recent decades, gross over-fishing has depleted fish stocks around the world. eco.eye takes a look at the initiatives that have been implemented to tackle white fish & shellfish depletion in the seas around Ireland. We [...]
Episode 05
(Eco Eye s2/e1)
Genetically Modified Organisms
The vast majority of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are used in contained situations for medical research and pharmaceutical manufacture. Some, however, are released as foodstuffs and this is where the controversy begins. Since 1991, eighteen GM foods have been authorised for release in the EU. Here in Ireland, ongoing field trials [...]
Episode 04
(Eco Eye s2/e4)
Eutrophication
People have been fishing in the waters of Lough Conn in County Mayo for hundreds of years. But one fish they won’t be catching is an ancient species stranded in Lough Conn 12,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age that had survived until only recently. The artic char, a [...]
Episode 08
Eco Eye (s6/e8)
Item 1 (Big Picture strand) – “Forestry and Acid sensitive watercourses”
Soil erosion is a ceaseless natural phenomenon that can reap havoc for vulnerable fishstocks. When peat washes into salmonoid rivers, the water becomes acidic and Salmon are adversely affected. In this item, we take a look at how we are coping with this [...]