{"id":866,"date":"2019-04-30T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T19:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/?p=866"},"modified":"2019-04-30T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T19:39:45","slug":"just-three-or-four-in-100-wild-salmon-return-to-irish-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/just-three-or-four-in-100-wild-salmon-return-to-irish-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Just three or four in 100 wild salmon return to Irish waters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland is experiencing a parallel decline in wild salmon as Scotland, where numbers caught are at their lowest since records were first compiled, according to chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland Dr Ciar\u00e1n Byrne.<\/p>\n<p>Numbers of the fish here peaked in the mid-1970s, when about 1.7 million returned. Today returns are estimated at some 200,000. The reported catch is between 28,000 and 30,000, confirmed Dr Byrne, with 8,000 caught commercially and the rest from recreational angling. \u201cWe are deeply concerned about salmon abundance levels,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/ireland\/irish-news\/just-three-or-four-in-100-wild-salmon-return-to-irish-waters-1.3875588\">Just three or four in 100 wild salmon return to Irish waters<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/ireland\/irish-news\/just-three-or-four-in-100-wild-salmon-return-to-irish-waters-1.3875588\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-867 img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/image-600x319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/image-600x319.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/image-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ofmn.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/2019\/04\/image.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Numbers of wild salmon in Ireland peaked in the mid-1970s, when about 1.7 million returned. Today returns are estimated at some 200,000. File photograph: iStockPhoto<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland is experiencing a parallel decline in wild salmon as Scotland, where numbers caught are at their lowest since records were first compiled, according to chief executive of Inland Fisheries Ireland Dr Ciar\u00e1n Byrne. Numbers of the fish here peaked in the mid-1970s, when about 1.7 million returned. Today returns are estimated at some 200,000. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11658,"featured_media":867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-release","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"youtube_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outdoorsfirst.com\/salmon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}