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Over €770,000 has been awarded to 17 projects to support fisheries conservation across Ireland, including projects on the rivers Erriff and Moy in Mayo.

News-in-brief from around the county - catch up on what's been gonig on. 

Take a quick tour though what's been going on around Mayo in our News in Breif section. 

The Great Famine of 1845 - 49 hit Achill Island particularly hard. Given the poor quality of its soil there was little or no alternative to the potato crop which failed throughout those years. Once the severity of the calamity became apparent, and that help from the government was begrudging and insufficient, there was a sensible coming together of Protestant and Catholic clergy to try to calm and feed the people.

Thirteen angling clubs and organisations in Mayo have received funding for projects from Inland Fisheries Ireland.

Inland Fisheries Ireland can confirmed this week that 65 farmed salmon were caught in rivers in Mayo and Galway, the affected rivers are the Delphi, Erriff, Kylemore/Dawros, Newport and Bunowen. Inland Fisheries Ireland has been monitoring the situation since August.