The Distribution of Irish Char (Salvelinus Alpinus)

Char* (Salvelinus alpinus) are rare in most places in Ireland to-day but they were formerly more widespread \nand abundant. About twenty-five years ago the Fisheries Division of the Department of Agriculture and \nFisheries started to offer rewards for char submitted for examination and this has had the result of providing \nspecimens which would otherwise have been lost. Many of these specimens wcre taken on rod and line but in \nrecent years considerable numbers have been obtained in connection with either the improvement schemes of the \nInland Fisheries Trust, Inc. or investigations concerned with the effects of drainage operations on Lough Conn.