Dr. William O'Connor dip netting elvers at the falls in Ennistymon during 1996. In 1996 a total of approximately 400,000 elvers were captured in a 5 day period using a combination of trapping and dip netting (O'Connor, 2003). It is noted that this work was not undertaken by the ShRFB as claimed by O'Leary et al (2012), and calls into question the accuracy of elver trapping index data being used by Inland Fisheries Ireland.
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