{"id":58541,"date":"2026-08-12T15:47:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/kilkeel-generations-of-fish-wiped-out-after-pollution-incident\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:47:46","slug":"kilkeel-generations-of-fish-wiped-out-after-pollution-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/kilkeel-generations-of-fish-wiped-out-after-pollution-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilkeel: Generations of fish &#8216;wiped out&#8217; after pollution incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">An angling club has said a fish kill in a County Down river is the &#8220;worst environmental event&#8221; it has ever witnessed.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Department of Environment (Daera) said 5km of the Kilkeel River in the Mournes area was impacted and they are investigating the incident which took place last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said trout, eels and lamprey were all confirmed dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kilkeel Angling Club said the scale of the destruction was &#8220;devastating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daera said &#8220;no active discharge was found&#8221; but &#8220;a definite line of enquiry is being followed regarding the source of the pollution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They added the number of fish killed remains to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cqlxp5lp9ndo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An angling club has said a fish kill in a County Down river is the &#8220;worst environmental event&#8221; it has ever witnessed. The Department of Environment (Daera) said 5km of the Kilkeel River in the Mournes area was impacted and they are investigating the incident which took place last week. A spokesperson said trout, eels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[670,16308,3496,16307,2472,4137],"class_list":["post-58541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-ireland","tag-fish","tag-generations","tag-incident","tag-kilkeel","tag-pollution","tag-wiped"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58543,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58541\/revisions\/58543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}