D C A L Survey on Moyola River 2011
A Review of salmonid Monitoring on
Moyola River
Just some points of interest from this report from DCAL.
Acoustic tagging was carried out in 2011 on the river bann and some of the Lough Neagh rivers.
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7 salmon from the kilrea tagging operation were subsequently detected in the Moyola river. The earliest tagged fish which entered the Moyola did so on the 12th August and the latest fish to enter the river was detected on the 23rd October. In general fish progressed fairly rapidly through the lower Bann with most of the fish detected at Kilrea subsequently picked up in the Moyola between 1-8 days later. One fish a small female grilse entered the river on the 16th August and continued to be detected periodically at the Castledawson receiver from the 7th September until the 7th November after which it was not detected again.A male grilse entered the river on the 13th August and was recorded at Castledawson on the 14th August. This fish was then detected again on the lower Moyola on the 12th October, whereupon it left the Moyola river and migrated to the River Main where it was last detected above Cullybackey.
On the 23rd October another male grilse entered the moyola, it stayed in the river 41 days, it then left the Moyola and migrated to the Sixmilewater on the 11th December where it remained until its last detection on the 14th December..
A male grilse tagged on the 7th November in the Moyola river was recorded at the bottom of the Moyola between the 18th– 24th November, before leaving and migrating to the Clady river and was detected on the 27th November.
In all 12 fish were tagged and entered the Moyola river, only one of these fish got over the weir at Castledawson.
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