{"id":610707,"date":"2026-07-29T23:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610707\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T23:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T23:11:11","slug":"more-than-4500-fish-found-dead-in-major-river-kill-in-co-cavan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/610707\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 4,500 fish found dead in major river kill in Co Cavan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MORE THAN 4,500 fish have been found dead in Co Cavan, prompting an investigation by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) and other agencies.<\/p>\n<p>IFI said officers observed large numbers of dead fish over a 2km stretch of the Cavan town river after receiving a report through its hotline late on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Among the species found dead were brown trout, European eel, roach, lamprey and minnow, as well as freshwater crayfish.<\/p>\n<p>IFI said it is leading a multi-agency investigation under the national protocol for significant fish kills, working alongside Cavan County Council, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Marine Institute and the National Parks and Wildlife Service.<\/p>\n<p>An interagency group met on Wednesday to coordinate the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the ecological incident has not yet been established.<\/p>\n<p>IFI has urged anyone with information relating to fish kills, water pollution, habitat destruction or illegal fishing to contact its confidential 24-hour hotline on 0818 34 74 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MORE THAN 4,500 fish have been found dead in Co Cavan, prompting an investigation by Inland Fisheries Ireland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,257829,257830,257831,78490,18,13,14,2681,9760,6,19,9762,17,257832,11,12,15,16,257833,5,257834,7,8],"class_list":["post-610707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cavan-town","tag-co-cavan","tag-crayfish","tag-eel","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-fish","tag-fish-kill","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-inland-fisheries-ireland","tag-ireland","tag-lamprey","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-minnow","tag-news","tag-roach","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117005797487810957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}