Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 26 June 2014
128. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if the lake at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry will be restocked, even if for just two months of the year, to help support local tourism, as it used to be stocked in the past; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27676/14]
Amharc ar fhreagraI am advised by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) that the lake in question, Lake Yganavan, is part of a Special Area of Conservation, (SAC no. 000370) and has not been previously stocked by IFI. I am also advised that as the lake in question is in a SAC and any actions there would require submission of a Nature Impact Statement to the Competent Authority, the National Parks & Wildlife Service (NPWS), and to IFI in relation to fish. For the information of the House, I should point out that the stocking of lakes that currently hold wild native stocks of fish even where numbers are limited, with fish of farm origin, would not be viewed as best practice where the protection of the diversity of the native populations would be a priority.
