Fish Kills in Ireland 1969 to Recent

Field Name

Field Alias

Field Type

Field Description

cdRbd

River Basin District

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IFI river basin districts (RBDs), broad geographic delineations. These include the Eastern River Basin District (ERBD), Northwestern River Basin District (NWRBD), Shannon River Basin District (ShRBD), Southeastern River Basin District (SERBD), Southwestern River Basin District (SWRBD) and Western River Basin District (WRBD). Please note that the areas covered by the Loughs Agency are not included in this dataset.

EPA_46

EPA 46

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High level river monitoring and water quality layer consisting of 46 river catchments (see Appendix E). The catchments illustrated here, serve as a guide because they are at a relatively high level (mainly hydrometric area) and therefore, administrative in nature. For example, the “Liffey and Dublin Bay (09)” includes the main River Liffey catchment itself, but also numerous smaller, unconnected, coastal streams. Furthermore, the River Shannon (Hydrometric Areas 25 and 26) has been divided into 11 smaller catchments (Appendix E). Please note that the areas covered by the Loughs Agency are not included in this dataset.  

indFisheryDistrict

Fishery District

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Fishery District Licence areas. Polygon dataset representing the 17 IFI fishery districts. A district licence allows for angling in one fishery district. Please note that the areas covered by the Loughs Agency are not included in this dataset.

yrFishKills

Year of fish kill

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Year of reported fish kill

indWbType

Water body type

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River, lake, transitional water, coastal, artificial (pond, reservoir, canal, etc.)

County

County

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Irelands county layer (excluding the six counties within Northern Ireland).

indWbName

Waterbody Name

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Water body name

indFinalCause

Final Cause

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Reported final summary cause of each fish kill. Where data were available the specific cause was classified into eight broad categories, namely agriculture, construction, eutrophication, industrial, mining, municipal, other and unknown.

indSalmonidMortality

Salmonid Mortality Recorded

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Confirmation if the salmonid fish family group was impacted by the fish kill. Salmonid = freshwater spawning fish that generally have evolved to survive in cold or cool water conditions. (Atlantic salmon, brown trout, sea trout or Arctic char). Y= Salmonid family group impacted and blank (no value) = none or not recorded.

indCoarseFishMortality

Coarse Fish Mortality Recorded

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Confirmation if the coarse fish group was impacted by the fish kill. Irish coarse fish species includes perch, roach, rudd, bream, dace, chub and tench (but usually not eels or lamprey). For the purposes of this study we also included pike, minnow, stone loach, gudgeon, three and nine/ten spined stickleback in the category. Hybrids of roach, rudd and bream are also included. In many cases the exact species wasn’t reported. Y= Coarse fish group impacted and blank (no value) = none or not recorded.

indMarineFishMortality

Marine Fish Mortality Recorded

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Confirmation if the marine fish group was impacted by the fish kill (examples included are flounder, bass, mullet and sprat). Y= marine fish group impacted and blank (no value) = none or not recorded.

indOtherFishMortality

Other Fish Mortality Recorded

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Confirmation if Other fish species (excluding salmonid, coarse and marine) were impacted by the fish kill. The Other fish group includes eel and lamprey (Brook, Freshwater or Sea Lamprey). Y= Other fish group impacted and blank (no value) = none or not recorded.

indFamilyAffected

Fish Family Affected

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Name of fish family groups affected by the fish kill or Not recorded.