More than 1,000 brown trout have been lost in a major fish kill on a Co Antrim river, as BBC News reports.

On Friday (17 May), Northern Ireland’s Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) confirmed the incident resulting from slurry pollution of the Four Mile Burn, a tributary of the Six Mile Water.

Local anglers believe the fish kill is agriculture-related, with Antrim and District Angling Association president John Mitchell adding: “It’s just devastation, the whole tributary is dead.”

BBC News has much more on the story HERE.

#Angling - Are developers causing difficulties for disabled anglers in Co Antrim?

That's what the Six Mike Water Trust's Michael Martin has alleged, as Farming Life reports, with claims that housing developments on the Kirbys’ Lane river walk are "destroying the river corridor" at the disabled angling stand.

What's more, a proposed development for 400 homes on the Six Mile Water's flood plain downstream in an area home to a variety of aquatic wildlife is "surely... a contravention to EEC Water Framework and Habitats Directives."

Farming Life has more on the story HERE.