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WHILE THOSE OF us on dry land may be enjoying the heatwave, the public has been asked to think about those in the water.
Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) is asking anglers and the general public to report any sightings of distressed fish which may be caused by high water temperatures and low water levels.
The body is also asking anglers to avoid using “keep nets” in order to avoid causing distress to fish. IFI has a 24-hour hotline for reporting distressed fish: 1890 34 74 24 or 1890 FISH 24.
Dr Ciaran Byrne, CEO of Inland Fisheries Ireland, said:
“Low water levels and high water temperatures may lead to fish kills. The temperatures are dangerously hot at the moment and fish kills may be unavoidable. In some instances, moving fish may prove too stressful. We would ask anglers practising catch and release fishing during this hot spell to consider taking a break from fishing entirely until conditions are more favourable.”
IFI also says that there is a reduced amount of oxygen in the water due to the heat and is asking farmers and industry to be mindful that discharges to rivers and lakes, such as silage effluent or sewage discharges can put additional demands on the oxygen levels, resulting in pollution incidents and fish kills.
Landowners are also asked to mindful when taking water from lakes and rivers.
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‘On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life’ Darwin
The Origin of Species arrived a year before that prejudice conviction. In it, Wallace compared famine conditions in Ireland with the largest empire the world had known, in this case, industrial England.
All the attempts to make it a false 20th-century American variant of science versus religion variant will fail as it is an opportunity to undo Victorian natural selection prejudice from the minds and education of humanity based on ‘races’.
@Gerald Kelleher: what
The million who died on this island due to the conviction of Malthus as an antecedent for natural selection is purposely ignored by these fact checkers.
The intermediaries or ‘missing link’ between white complexion humans and gorillas were African and Australian natives and hope for their extermination.
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.” — Charles Darwin (1871)
@Gerald Kelleher: You need to get out more lovely hair do
@Square: looks like he’s off his meds again
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