Report on licensing for aquaculture delivered to Marine Minister.
Submissions from the public are invited for development of a national sea trout policy, following the launch by Inland Fisheries Ireland.
The policy will make recommendations on a range of issues including management of stock and any legislative changes that may arise.
Protection and conservation, stock assessment, education and promotion will also be addressed.
Interested parties are invited to make submissions for consideration by the Sea Trout Policy Group.
Submissions must be made in writing for publication on fisheriesireland.ie and marked “Public Consultation – Sea Trout Policy” to (SEATROUTPOLICY@fisheriesireland.ie) or Sea Trout Policy, Inland Fisheries Ireland, 3044 Lake Drive, Citywest Business Campus, D24 Y265.
It is Ireland’s only not-for-profit fly-fishing fair and supports a conservation trust.
The fair includes bug tanks, free fly-tying and casting instruction, and all aspects of safety.
A landowner has been convicted of a breach to the Water Pollution Act in Glenamaddy, Co Galway, which resulted in a fish kill.
The incident resulted in damage to fish stock in the Yellow River, which is an important spawning tributary for salmon and trout, with the absence of aquatic life noted for a considerable distance downstream.

Haley & Aldrich awarded contract for groundwater work in California.
"Assessing and cleaning up contaminated sites requires comprehensive knowledge of the nature and extent of subsurface contamination, and effective methods to remove or treat the contaminants in situ," said Murray Einarson, Haley & Aldrich Principal in Hydrogeology.
The first of the courses will take place March 13-17, 2017, in San Francisco.
Einarson and Rich Rago, Haley & Aldrich Practice Leader in Vapor Intrusion, who will serve as instructors, are expanding the Groundwater Pollution and Hydrology course curriculum to include California-specific topics.
Einarson and Rago are also regular instructors in the Princeton Remediation Course.
The training contract for the state of California includes two, one-week training sessions for regulators per year, for three years.
About Princeton Groundwater Princeton Groundwater Inc. has offered cutting-edge short courses on groundwater hydrology, pollution, and remediation for the last 30 years.
The courses attract regulators, students, consultants, and site owners from around the world.
Many state and local regulatory agencies, consulting firms, and Fortune 500 companies rely on the Princeton courses as the primary technical training courses for their staff.
Haley & Aldrich’s one-team approach allows it to draw from 600 engineers, scientists, and constructors in nearly 30 offices for creative collaboration and expert solutions.

April 2017: NSW Land and Environment Court ordered Council to pay $175,000 for sewage spill Hawkesbury City Council (HC Council) owns and operates a sewage treatment plant in New South Wales and holds an environment protection licence (EPL) for the premises in respect of sewage treatment.
HC Council employees carried out maintenance work of certain plant and equipment including reinstalling parts.
HC Council pleaded guilty to each offence.
Justice Pain noted that the incidents were in the moderate to high end of the low range of objective seriousness and resulted from obvious deficiencies in HC Council’s operating systems, particularly the absence of maintenance checks.
More spills in NSW The EPA has a number of options when determining to regulate a breach of the POEO Act.
For example, it may issue a penalty notice, enter into an enforceable undertaking with the offender or, for more serious offences, like the HC Council example, prosecute.
Penalty notice offences A penalty notice for pollution of waters can attract a penalty of up to $15,000 (for a corporation) for each offence.
This includes undertaking physical works and plant upgrades as well as improving environmental compliance systems, including updating practices and procedures and undertaking employee training; and Financial contributions to an environmental project.
Thames Water was charged with 14 offences involving discharge of untreated sewage into the River Thames from four sewage treatment works and a large sewage pumping station.
Thames Water pleaded guilty to all offences and was fined over 20 million GBP.