Fish Stock Survey of Transitional Waters in the South Western River Basin District 2020 – Bandon Estuary
This report presents fish capture data collected during Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) surveys of transitional waterbodies. This report focuses on the survey which was conducted within the Bandon estuary on the south coast of Ireland. The Bandon estuary is divided into two water bodies, the Upper Bandon and the Lower Bandon and are classified separately. It was conducted primarily to designate an ecological status based on fish populations, as per the requirements of the Water Framework Directive (Directive 2000/60/EC). The populations of species of angling and conservation importance are also discussed.
A number of fish sampling methods were used to ensure that a range of habitat types were sampled, thus making it likely that all fish species present in the estuary were captured. Across the survey, a total of 23 species and 545 individual fish were captured in the Lower Bandon. A total of 4 species and 649 individual fish were captured in the Upper Bandon. Current data was also compared to previous surveys in 2009 and 2016 (Lower Bandon only) to assess how fish populations have changed in the intervening years.
Bandon Estuary WFD Survey 2020
Topics: Transitional Waters 2020 |