A “major fish kill” in a Co Derry river has tallied than 2,000 fish across a range of species, as BBC News reports.
The incident was discovered last Friday morning (24 November) on the Muff River in Eglinton, near the City of Derry Airport.
A report on Belfast Live suggests that sea trout returning to the river to lay eggs are among those killed by a pollutant in the watercourse.
An investigation is now under way by the Loughs Agency and Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA), who say the have establised a “specific line of enquiry”.