fishing.ie uses data from several public sources to provide fishing intelligence, weather conditions, and mapping. This page details each source and its licence terms.
The intelligence reports, season analysis, catch statistics, hatch timelines, and fishing map data on fishing.ie are derived from fishing reports published by Inland Fisheries Ireland at fishinginireland.info. This includes:
Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Historical weather data used in Intelligence condition analysis (wind direction, temperature, cloud cover, precipitation) is provided by Open-Meteo. This data is used to correlate fishing outcomes with weather conditions across multiple seasons.
Open-Meteo provides free weather data for non-commercial use with attribution.
Current weather conditions and 5-day forecasts displayed on venue pages are provided by Met Éireann via their public API.
All maps on fishing.ie use OpenStreetMap data and CARTO tile layers. Map data is © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles © CARTO. Attribution is displayed on all map interfaces.
River level data displayed on river venue pages is sourced from waterlevel.ie, operated by the Office of Public Works.