The fishing industry on Lough Neagh is "a victim" of the environmental challenges facing the lough, politicians have been told. The comments by representatives of the Lough Neagh Fishermen's ...

Lough Neagh fishermen have said that pollution "cannot be allowed" to bring an end to eel fishing on the lough. Brown eel fishing will not resume in the area this year due to environmental changes.

Northern Ireland ’s Environment Minister Andrew Muir has accused some politicians of a “deliberate attempt to undermine the ...

Lough Neagh is not a case study in some textbook. It supplies 40 per cent of Northern Ireland’s drinking water and sustains a ...

Lough Neagh’s only commercial fishery was not consulted about a major action plan to tackle the environmental crisis currently gripping the lake, a Stormont committee has heard. Fresh details emerged ...

A Lough Neagh fisherman is taking a Stormont department to court over its faltering response to the pollution crisis at Ireland’s largest inland water body.

It’s rather bizarre the DUP are prepared to draw a very hard line around the Irish Sea and create a border in relation to ...

Environmentalists have held a wake to mark the “death” of the UK and Ireland’s largest freshwater lake as they accused polluters of causing a huge bloom of toxic blue-green algae. Activists dressed in ...

Alarm has been expressed at the lack of a plan following the resurfacing of toxic blue-green algae on Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland's largest fresh water lake. Earlier this month Stormont Agriculture ...

A Stormont department has been urged to intervene after it emerged a suspension on eel fishing on Lough Neagh over quality concerns has been extended for another month. A temporary shut-down of ...