Pesca continental

APPLICATION OF ELECTRICITY TO FRESHWATER FISHERY MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT IN IRELAND. EIFAC Occasional Paper No. 3.

Managing inland fisheries

In the execution of the intensive programme of rehabilitation and development of its fisheries, the Inland Fisheries Trust Incorporated found itself handicapped by the lack of an effective means of speedily managing and controlling large populations of various kinds of fish in rivers and in the search for a solution to this difficulty found that electrical methods were the most effective for its purpose. The Fisheries Division of the Department of Lands now makes extensive use of electrical fishing devices in its scientific investigations as do other bodies similarly engaged, such as the Salmon Research Trust of Ireland and those engaged in the management and development of their own fisheries, such as the Electricity Supply Board of Ireland and the Foyle Fisheries Commission. A small number of angling associations possess electrical fishing sets for the management of their waters. The instruments employed by each of these organizations and their methods of operation are, in the main, more or less similar so that the following descriptions can be taken to apply generally in Ireland.