Environmental regulators in Northern Ireland, UK under investigation for failing salmon

Environmental regulators in Northern Ireland under investigation for failing salmon. Fish Legal has referred environmental regulators in Northern Ireland to the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) for failing to protect migratory fish including salmon, dollaghan and brown trout on the Crumlin River which flows into Lough Neagh. The OEP has confirmed that the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) and Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA) are both under formal investigation for not acting to stop the abstraction of water, leaving a section of the river severely depleted, on the River Crumlin that is preventing adult fish from reaching their spawning grounds. Footage showing whole sections of the Crumlin River, in County Antrim, drying out upstream from Crumlin town has been provided to the OEP in the referral made by Fish Legal on behalf of the Crumlin and District Angling Association. Fish Legal has asked the OEP to investigate ongoing breaches ...