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County Down trout deaths threaten years of river restoration
An angling club estimates about 1,000 trout have died across three rivers, including fish returning to spawn. Investigators have yet to establish the pollution source or final toll.
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- For the volunteers who have spent years trying to restore the Inler, the dead trout represent work undone—and another threat to the river’s future. Pollution has killed resident brown trout and sea trout returning to spawn across three County Down rivers, striking a system that their angling club says was still recovering from earlier fish kills.