Cheaper to pollute and accept the paltry fines than to correctly handle agricultural waste, that's what it boils down to. People with no morals, vandalising our fragile ecosystem from all sides. We are in an ecological crisis, and this sort of thing should never be allowed to happen.
Here in The Netherlands in alot of little harbours like where you filmed this video there are special oxygen pumps in the water in the summer months. It basically looks like a round orange rescue float which almost all ships have but with a propeller in the middle that spews the water into the air about a few feet high which puts more oxygen into the water
I know what you mean, I think they may have smaller versions of that in marinas like this one over the summer months when oxygen is expected to be low. This was a sudden human caused even though unfortunately!
UPDATE THREAD: EA have been contacted and hopefully we will get some updates regarding the cause and who is responsible. If you could share this video as much as you can that would be great, the more eyes on this the better!
UPDATE: a whopping 7 Bin bags of dead fish have been removed from the marina including a pike that looked at least a mid double in weight and one not far behind.
I've just been fishing half a mile from there, and a woman came and told me what had happened. Now I know why I didn't catch any. Do you think it is worth me going down tomorrow to see If I can save any? I have a fish pond that needs stocking. I live locally and know some of the farmers. I wonder which one it was?
I was about 3 or 4 bridges north of Bridge House Marina last week and there was an awful smell..a bit like ammonia, very strong. I wonder if that had something to do with it?
If this happened a few years previously & was caused by a local farm, THEN, that farm is a good place to start ! clearly the farm has NOT changed its ways SO, it MUST BE CLOSED DOWN UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT THE FARMER IS RETURNED FROM JAIL & HAS PAID FOR THE ENTIRE AREA TO BE CLEANED UP. ! This must be followed up with extensive media coverage warning lazy farmers, they WILL go to jail! Dont forget that the lacklustre Environment Agency is just a complete waste of cash & not fit for purpose.
If an Eel is struggling it could be something more chemical as they can survive in places fish can't. Has the EA been involved investigating and taking fish samples? I have seen the river Bure in Norfolk blighted by an exceptional high tide where the salt water gets up to 14 miles inland to Acle and the coarse fish are left gasping. Very sad to see. V
Fishing has been getting steadily worse for decades , places my dad fished when a boy it was impossible to fail are now empty. Incidents like this make you sick
Not suggesting its the cause but what people don't realise is boats discharge all sorts of muck into rivers legally. Add in the way many farmers (not all) use the land as a discharge pipe for their factory style operations, some of it perfectly legally. They dig in pipes to drain their fields into surrounding water courses and then add loads of nutrients to the land. Nowadays even factories can't behave like that, their effluent and outputs are controlled.
This is awful to see. I used to fish a canal near where I live when I was a kid and you used to have to practically fight for pegs to fish it was such a good place. Unfortunately, the same thing happened about 25 years ago and a farm along the canal caused total decimation of the fish by their farming practices. Sad to say but all these years on fish levels have never returned to anywhere near what they were.
Thanks for highlighting this terrible contamination of the canal as someone who fishes and loves all the wildlife stuff I feel sick to the stomach that somebody can do this anglers do get bad press but this goes to show with your video how much we care for the environment the true guardians of our waterways
Don't you mean the sewers because that's where all their drain water and runoff go to is those canals it's been that way since the place was built there's so much chemicals and stuff laying on the bottom of them canals from years ago that it's too far gone to do anything the only thing that kept them fish alive was the mud being on top they've been trying to clean up the canals and they've made things worse I releasing chemicals and stuff that have been buried for years, decades
I doubt it was an accident, it would have been taken by tanker and discharged way out of view. I see tractors with slurry tankers regularly going into and out of Stoke Bardolph sewage works. Maybe they process the animal waste there as well as human but there is a site there that makes methane or whatever gas from decomposing material. I reckon there is a lot of animal slurry from winter shedding they get rid of, either sprayed on the fields as fertiliser and no doubt sometimes dumped into the waterways, this is what nitrates do, remove oxygen and feed weed etc with carbon dioxide, it looks like weed is thriving in there, poor fish the rotten mongrels that did this 🙁
It's really heartbreaking isn't it. It couldve been intentional, and even if it was a 'mistake' the fact that it has happened a few times indicates otherwise, or that better care shoudlve been taken
Thats heartbreaking to see mate. I hope whoever is responsible is made fully accountable and is prosecuted accordingly. Fair play for raising awareness, lets hope your canal recovers from this as quickly as possible 🤞
Thanks for the support mate. Really awful what’s happened, I hope it doesn’t end up just being a small fine and a slap on the wrist like what I imagine is usually the case. With a bit of luck we will know who’s done it for sure 👍
Once the shit's dumped in the canal, you'll never prove who did it! Should just retaliate and burn the farmers crops before they are about to be harvested lol!
Just fallen upon this & have to say it's something sadly ive come across myself on my local canal.. not to the extent on your footage but the scenes are the same ! I used to fish an area abundant with pike & alike where now its practically empty of fish. we pay for our licenses so yeah...we would like answers from the EA where the money goes ? well highlighted fella 👍
Aw man this is horrible 😢 I've fished for over 30yrs and I've taken so much care to release everything I have caught and to see this is devastating, So sad.
Firstly Well done for highlighting this incident 👏 This sort of thing often falls below the radar and is often not reported on enough .Decimating thriving fish stocks and taking years for recovery .Sadly the EA do what they can with the resources they have .Let's hope in this case someone is accountable and fined accordingly .Very sad to see mature fish stocks in that distress .I also note there are many eels which are now a protected species as there numbers decline every year .
Thank you, yeah it’s really heartbreaking. One of the reasons for making this video was to help ensure this doesn’t just get swept under the rug like it likely did the past two times. They need to be prosecuted
Did you take samples of the water and dead fish? Surely the River Board should have been out as soon as possible!!! The people responsible for this should have been NAMED AND SHAMED.
It's high time farmers went back to older styles of farming. I was reading yesterday that insect life in our country is down by 65% and people were being urged not to put fly papers or traps of any kind up this summer, the reason was pesticieds and chemicals used nowadays in farming. Now this. Fertilizers and pesticides were responsible back in the 50's for wiping out otter (Yes, we all know how bad the otter problem is) but it's a damned sight worse for all of us if we lose all of our fish and wildlife. Maybe it's possible to trace the chemicals back to a farm or find out who has been spraying crops etc over the last week?
I couldn’t comment on the causes or remedies because I don’t know too much about it but I’ve heard that too with the insects. People are being encouraged to plant insect friendly plants in their gardens etc! Hopefully they do manage to trace it and the person responsible gets what’s coming to them
The Gov itself has allowed water companies to release more untreated water into our rivers , but the water companies are still charging the same amount in water rates for not doing what theyre charging for Criminal and the Gov is in on it , to allow and agree to it
Horrendous to see and thanx for highlighting, I would definitely have fished those eels out, they were the oldest of all those fish and would have stood a good chance of recovery once removed and returned to any other water course. An amazing enigmatic species that is endangered and should be respected by all. Hope whoever is responsible is held accountable.
I’d have definitely done that if there was a place for them to go mate but unfortunately the whole stretch canal was affected not just the marina. Heartbreaking to see especially considering they’re critically endangered
Absolutely shocking. Folk need to be held accountable by the for this. It happens far to often. We need to make people in authority, power aware of this dire situation. My heart hurts, such magnificent specimens. Such a sorry state.
This happened on the Trent n Mersey canal in Northwich at Oakwood Marina during 2nd lockdown....thousands of dead fish in the water due to a diesel spillage, like 20lb Pike, 15--18lb Carp thousands of silver fish, bream, tench, eels etc, was really upsetting to see man
I doubt there is a single angler or environmentalist that wouldn't be sickened by this video. Pollution is rife in UK waters and the problem is this: to prosecute the polluters you need deep pockets and huge amounts of proof. Financing any action against the culprits can be achieved, but it is the scientific evidence, backed up by qualified individuals that is the biggest problem. Farmers, Water Companies etc know this and are confident that they can abuse our waterways and get away with it. Sorry to be so blunt, but they're the facts.
Absolutely disgusting behaviour by someone who clearly has no appreciation for the environment, they need to be caught and held to account. Colin Hynard.
What do you expect? The Tories have weakened environmental laws, so that water authorities can discharge sewage into our waterways. But just think, how much money they will save?
Man right here in my country there’s a i river close to my house and a sugar factory spilled all its chemical waste into the river and the river got polluted and killed all fish and alligator since 2019 and it’s still polluted and man it just sad when I saw big crocodile and alligator dead floating big large bay snook just floating man it’s really tough out here man 😔👍🏼
Where are you from? That sounds like a massive shame. Corporations need to start caring more about the environment or there won’t be anything left to look after
Farmers do this on purpose, it saves them money just to dump slurry in the rivers and canals. Where i live in northern Ireland our local rivers get the same treatment, one of the farmers was heard saying he doesn't mind paying a fine because it still works out cheaper for him. Our rivers and lakes used to be teaming with fish, now it's just not the same 👎🏻
What a disgusting thing for him to have said. I did wonder if it costs to dispose of slurry, that makes a lot of sense as an explanation. More needs to be done and punishments definitely needs to be made more substantial
The EA will classify that as a minor incident. And will do nothing. (arguably because of lack of funding). This isn't even a rare occurrence, happens daily and will continue to happen daily.
The EA don't care about pollution as we are now hearing.Sad state of affairs in this country neglect is obviously the way for years.The northeast England neglect in park lakes the river wear in Sunderland through to Washington is terrible fishing you have more luck catching a condom that's how bad it is .I caught a minnow in Durham while fishing for chub and barbel the EA will stock commercial fisheries and say this where your license money is going and think they are doing a good thing instead of stocking park lakes and rivers up here.
May already be on comments but, join Angling Trust and by extension Fish Legal. They are fighting these things constantly by contacting MP locally and parliamentary lobbying. So sad, thanks for bravery in uploading this.
Thanks Kevin you’re the first person to bring that up. I’m a member of the angling trust and fish legal but I’ve never really known what service fish legal provide. Do you think this is something they would be interested in/able to help with?
Absolute sacrilege. What a waste of quality fish...environmental health issue with whoever had done it. Some of the best conservationists in the world are the caring Anglers and hunters. Governments don't want to know. Pollution is a massive issue.
It definitely look like high nitrate levels so a farm is a prime suspect as you say. I have seen that in Sweden and it's soo sad to see all dead fishes.
There was a farmer prosecuted here in Northern Ireland for dumping Slurry into a major waterway. He killed thousands of fish and other marine life. Given that's a marina maybe it's been an oil or a fuel spill. Bloody heart breaking.
Yeah I think you could be right mate, probably saves costs from doing it the proper way. There’s rumours of a leaking slurry tower, even so better care should be taken
For it to happen once is bad enough but three times is unbelievable, people can't be allowed to just get away with polluting rivers, canals and lakes. It's bad enough that fishing has been ruined in a lot of places due to people thinking they can take fish home to eat but this is probably even worse.
I agree - absolutely heartbreaking to see this! It's a really hard watch but well done for documenting it and doing something about it. Mine is a fairly new TH-cam channel, but I'll share the link with my community all the same :) 👍Tight lines
Thanks mate I really appreciate the share. It all helps raise awareness about what’s happened and what will continue to happen unless we do something about it!
I caught the Canal and river trust hiding dead fish (large bream and pike) in the bushes on my local canal. We had a conversation. They were unnecessarily evasive. I could smell diesel but there was also organic pollution, known problem on that stretch which has agricultural drainage along it. First move always is to report to the EA. Even if there are "officials" on scene. I did this on this occasion. The EA/NRW, as this was Dee catchment, were completely unaware of anything happening and told me that the C&R trust were legally obligated to report this immediately to EA/NRW and hadn't. They were pissed actually, oops. So if you want to get something done learn the signs of different pollutants. Foaming is usually down to some organic contamination or possibly detergents. Oil or diesel is usually obvious too. Early reporting can help immensely , enabling EA to get their gear on site quickly. I have had them arrive before I have left at times. They are always happy to get a report. I report invasives to them also, which also helps a lot for them mapping distribution.. They are a public body people should use them more. So on the real action side of things. If you study the local topography and drainage systems, which are all available one way or another, it is possible to track the source reasonably effectively. A member of the public with a documented and evidenced case forces them into action as a public body. Most of all, look after where you fish. Nobody else will.
Hi. Absolutely dreadful and almost certainly avoidable. If you’ve not yet contacted Angling Trust I thoroughly recommend that you do. EA are often complicit in this sort of event as they now don’t prosecute ‘small cases’. Several whistleblowers raised this only a few months ago. Something like 80% of field officer’s reports were dropped. And don’t forget the background of this government giving water companies permission to dump raw sewage into all of our waters. Contact your local MP but if she/ he is a Tory you’re probably wasting your time. I wish you the very best in your efforts as you follow this and thank you for raising awareness.
Thanks for the advice martin i will be contacting the angling trust for sure, it's good we have this evidence for the future too. No doubt the ea wouldnt have taken many pictures and videos. I will get onto the local mp too, thanks for the support and suggestions
That's absolutely gutting to see, I love sport fishing and overwhelmingly practice cpr, but to see this is absolutely awful. I hope that those responsible are brought to justice for it.
If you ever experience problem out blue again contact fire brigade they will come and use there pumps for you if they can, we got paddle pumps in place now for emergencys , environment agency are pretty busy this time of year with algae blooms and quite often lacking equipment to go round and arnt much help at best of times , open marina gates to if there closed
That’s a great idea thanks for that. I’ll definitely bear it in mind if I ever see something like this again. Hopefully I won’t, but I don’t see this stopping unless serious sanctions are put in place
Absolutely devastating to see that. People need to be held accountable for it otherwise it will continue to happen unfortunately. Hopefully something can be done about it
Slurry spills remove all the oxygen resulting in a rapid kill. The EA should be busying themselves with oxygenators, but as usual they'll be at their useless best. Keep me posted please, good luck. Nick
Thanks Nick, yeah aerators would’ve really helped. Instead they took a few water samples and left. Far more they could’ve done I imagine but instead they’re off electro fishing zander.
If that event had happened where I currently I live. I I would have recorded some footage and brought itt on to the local radio TV networks. There was a spillage on the river wid here in Essex and it was duely reported to the look east BBC network to be made public. Which it was..Is there a local fishing club that can be galvanised?....Wildlife is currently having a very hard time in this country . More so than the rest of Europe....maybe even contact the spring watch programme....As the legislature stands for now it is a cheaper option for some unscrupulous farmers to dump their sewage and pay the fine rather than dispose of it in the correct manner...... Shocking!! Yea the eels are the last big fish to go as they can resort to semi air breathing.....
Such a huge shame, it’s a stretch run by the pike anglers club so hopefully if it needs to be taken further I’d have their support. It’s been touched on by BBC but massively understated, I’ve emailed it on to a few more news companies too so hopefully I’ll hear back
It would be completely unacceptable for them to not prosecute. If they didn’t, I’ll be starting a petition and getting as many signatures down as possible. Really awful what’s happened
Thanks for sharing with the world though. More importantly your country and I hope local authorities really take this tragedy seriously. It’s absolutely disgusting and disgraceful this has been allowed too happen.
I really hope so too, fortunately this video is getting a bit of traction. With a bit of luck that’ll help make sure it isn’t swept under the rug like the last few times!
It seems to be down to pollutants, environmental agencies are dealing with this aa well as PAC. Absolutely heartbreaking thank you for bringing this to attention. Hopefully the culprit will be identified.
@@adventurefishinguk i hope they get a huge fine for that but your right it will take a few years but it will bounce back. I used to have arguments with waterwitch pub as their dishwasher used to empty into canal. Its a fantastic water.
@@Michael-tq6xm Seriously? What disgustingly careless arseholes. Washing up liquids have a number of chemicals toxic to aquatic biology. Surfactants alone could have a very detrimental effect on the protective layer surrounding the bodies of fish. Kudos for voicing your concerns .
Definately contact Angling Trust they are the major UK anti pollution organisation.and are very effective in brigin g prosecution.Legally yes contact Environment Agency ..you pay your rod licence,get them working Simon A Manchester
Something like that happend several years at my town in Croatia on River Korana (not so many fish dead like there but close) and no one doing nothing!! :( And big catfishes and Barbels were dead!
Absolutely sickening. What is also sickening is what the EA will not achieve in my experience. If they try hard enough, they may win a case against the culprit, but the fine will not amount to much in the scheme of things. As for future restocking, it’ll be 2oz fish. I never understand this; in my opinion the culprit should be responsible for reinstating all lost stock, no matter the cost of 10lb Pike and 3lb Perch (it’s pretty simple to record the losses when they are floating belly-up!) and the clean-up costs and decontamination costs prior to restocking. The Angling Trust would far better represent us and anybody who cares about our waterways. Not an enjoyable watch, but well done Bud 👍
Thank you for having the Balls to make this video. I could not watch the eel bit & had had to skip it. it boils my Piss that this sort of negligent,barbaric,incompetent act can happen in the 21st century : (
Absolutely disappointed and sickened to see this I hope whoever is responsible the environmental agency’s hang them out to dry and fine the hell out of them I truly do all I can say is Thankyou and respect for what you doing
I was about too say was it oil leaking from the boats or something or a algae Bloom or low oxygen but yeah if slurry is leaking from fields and making it’s way into the canal it will be poisoning the water and all fish if I heard sooner I’d of been over too Lancaster too help net any surviving fish and relocate them away from that marina too give them a chance 😢🐟
It’s really heartbreaking isn’t it, I believe so much more should be done about it from the organisations. I may well have another visit and see if there’s anything more that can be done
@@adventurefishinguk Yeah take another Visit just too see if it’s not getting any worse or anything and keep me updated Message me on Instagram same name as my a TH-cam
Gutting mate hopefully the culprit is held responsible. Make sense that it has happened recently as none of the fish seemed to be huge like you said. Keep me updated and if there’s any petitions/ online work I can do I will happily standby you. Thank you for sharing this video hopefully lots of people see it and will help too.😔💔
That’s appalling buddy and put a lump in my throat just watching your video. I don’t even go fishing there but that doesn’t matter. A fish is a fish no matter where it lives and to see all that carnage is really upsetting. I hope the environment agency get to the bottom of it. No matter who gets prosecuted for this terrible devastation it can never replace what has gone and been lost. Keep in touch buddy and let us all know how things go if you find out. 😢🎣
Can’t agree more it’s absolutely disgraceful what’s happened. I’m worried that a prosecution will never take place, and if it does then it’ll be no more than a small fine and a slap on the wrist. Otherwise it wouldn’t keep happening! Huge huge shame that this is still going on in this day and age
@@adventurefishinguk It was on The BBC news as well buddy so let’s hope they can firstly clean the area and remove the poor dead fish and once it’s all sorted and they’re no chance of a repeat of what’s happened they can restock the canal to try and help somewhat. It’s people like you that make a difference and as anglers we try and look after what we love … fingers crossed buddy 😀😀🎣🎣
Unfortunately if this was a river/canal full of dead otters and not fish it would be covered by the national press! Fish are not cuddly they are hidden beneath water hardly any body will be concerned apart from fishermen! It's sickening.
Unfortunately DEFRA seem to be not doing their due diligence. Similarly to this, but on a much larger scale, millions of crustaceans and birds have been washing up dead on the beaches of the North East where I live. I'm talking absolute stacks. They have assessed and claimed it was down to a toxic algal bloom. No chance. More likely the dredging of the Tees bringing up loads of shite from the old chemical works. Tragic.
It costs the environment agency a ton of money to pursue through the courts. This is why they're reluctant to go to court. They're under funded too. But still contact them, especially as there are dead fish in those numbers.
They attended and took water samples. As for them taking any sort of legal action I’m doubtful. I hope it doesn’t lead to a small fine and a slap on the wrist
This is a bad time of year for this to happen. Firstly fish are spawning so we'll lose a batch of new fry. Secondly the water is warming now and warmer water holds less oxygen. The canal also seems to have huge weed growth and at this time of year something called 'dawn depletion' can kick in. All in all a perfect storm which could be lethally exacerbated by a thoughtless farmer trying to save a few quid under cover of darkness. Im so angry that this still happens.
It makes me really angry too. There’s never a good time for something like this to happen but you’re right it’s hit at a particularly bad point. What a massive shame, I wonder if it was accidental or on purpose
Hard to say but there will be an investigation. If it was accidental they're more likely to find it, if on the other hand it was deliberate the chances are it was done in the dark with the tracks long since covered.
just wrong , think how long it takes these fish to grow to the sizes we've been shown , more so in a canal To catch fish of these sizes in a canal is hard as they arent stocked like commercial lakes & pits
It’s definitely human caused unfortunately. The main question is who and was it accidental. Even if it was accidental, the fact that it’s happened multiple times suggests that better care should’ve been taken
Farmers spreading slurry in fields most likely, they do it in the rain out of laziness to and then runs from the fields into the rivers. I think the EA are putting a stop to farmers spreading slurry at certain times of the year for example, dry summer months etc, but they were meant to pass this law years ago, the nitrates also cling to the river bed which makes it all slimey and reduces ideal spawning grounds for the fish massively ! Farming is more intensive than it used to be years ago, farms have 400 cows now as apposed to 30 years ago, all that slurry has to go somewhere when it backs up in the pit, it's a disgrace in 2022 they should know better than this. What's even worse is in order to get their subsidiary payments they stick to tight guidelines but this happens all the time
It’s a huge shame. I don’t know too much about it but it makes me wonder if it costs them to dispose of and a quick dump into the canal job saves costs. Rumour has it there’s an ongoing leak in the slurry tank
This happened on the Leeds-Liverpool in Leigh a couple of years ago. The EA reported several hundreds of fish dead when it was in fact several thousands. They basically swept the whole thing under the carpet and as far as I know nobody was ever held accountable. Thankfully the area has recovered relatively quickly.
A similar thing happened on my local river the parrett in Somerset in the mid 70s found it when we went to choose some fishing spots. Us young lads counted more than 200 dead fish in 1/4 mile of river! Like you say, not a pleasant smell. Soul destroying to see all those dead fish.
Cheaper to pollute and accept the paltry fines than to correctly handle agricultural waste, that's what it boils down to. People with no morals, vandalising our fragile ecosystem from all sides. We are in an ecological crisis, and this sort of thing should never be allowed to happen.
I couldn't agree more. It's time things changed
Mate in Scotland it’s illegal to kill pike, you’ll get fucked if you got found out. Shocking
Most places have rules when it comes to the pike as well
Here in The Netherlands in alot of little harbours like where you filmed this video there are special oxygen pumps in the water in the summer months. It basically looks like a round orange rescue float which almost all ships have but with a propeller in the middle that spews the water into the air about a few feet high which puts more oxygen into the water
I know what you mean, I think they may have smaller versions of that in marinas like this one over the summer months when oxygen is expected to be low. This was a sudden human caused even though unfortunately!
UPDATE THREAD: EA have been contacted and hopefully we will get some updates regarding the cause and who is responsible. If you could share this video as much as you can that would be great, the more eyes on this the better!
Water samples have been taken from the site and we are awaiting results
UPDATE: a whopping 7 Bin bags of dead fish have been removed from the marina including a pike that looked at least a mid double in weight and one not far behind.
UPDATE: One big aerator and a couple of smaller ones have been installed at the marina, not sure for how long.
I've just been fishing half a mile from there, and a woman came and told me what had happened. Now I know why I didn't catch any. Do you think it is worth me going down tomorrow to see If I can save any? I have a fish pond that needs stocking. I live locally and know some of the farmers. I wonder which one it was?
I was about 3 or 4 bridges north of Bridge House Marina last week and there was an awful smell..a bit like ammonia, very strong. I wonder if that had something to do with it?
If this happened a few years previously & was caused by a local farm, THEN, that farm is a good place to start ! clearly the farm has NOT changed its ways SO, it MUST BE CLOSED DOWN UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT THE FARMER IS RETURNED FROM JAIL & HAS PAID FOR THE ENTIRE AREA TO BE CLEANED UP. !
This must be followed up with extensive media coverage warning lazy farmers, they WILL go to jail!
Dont forget that the lacklustre Environment Agency is just a complete waste of cash & not fit for purpose.
Unfortunately the media coverage is completely inadequate, no idea why. Something a bit suspect going on behind the scenes
If an Eel is struggling it could be something more chemical as they can survive in places fish can't. Has the EA been involved investigating and taking fish samples? I have seen the river Bure in Norfolk blighted by an exceptional high tide where the salt water gets up to 14 miles inland to Acle and the coarse fish are left gasping. Very sad to see. V
I believe in this case slurry is the confirmed cause, eels can cope better than other without oxygen so would explain why they were still alive
Shocking so sad twice maybe accidently but three times they just dont give a fuck terrible 😤
I know, even the second time should’ve never happened. A mistake is only a mistake the first time, any more is either malicious or plain stupid
Fishing has been getting steadily worse for decades , places my dad fished when a boy it was impossible to fail are now empty. Incidents like this make you sick
I know it’s very unfortunate. Happening all over the world, the byproduct of economic growth 😔
Not suggesting its the cause but what people don't realise is boats discharge all sorts of muck into rivers legally. Add in the way many farmers (not all) use the land as a discharge pipe for their factory style operations, some of it perfectly legally. They dig in pipes to drain their fields into surrounding water courses and then add loads of nutrients to the land. Nowadays even factories can't behave like that, their effluent and outputs are controlled.
There's definitely deep routed issues in the system that are very complex. It's time things changed i think!
This is awful to see. I used to fish a canal near where I live when I was a kid and you used to have to practically fight for pegs to fish it was such a good place. Unfortunately, the same thing happened about 25 years ago and a farm along the canal caused total decimation of the fish by their farming practices. Sad to say but all these years on fish levels have never returned to anywhere near what they were.
It's heartbreaking isn't it. hopefully if we all do our part publicising it we may see some change
Thanks for highlighting this terrible contamination of the canal as someone who fishes and loves all the wildlife stuff I feel sick to the stomach that somebody can do this anglers do get bad press but this goes to show with your video how much we care for the environment the true guardians of our waterways
Couldn't agree more! don't get the credit we deserve
Don't you mean the sewers because that's where all their drain water and runoff go to is those canals it's been that way since the place was built there's so much chemicals and stuff laying on the bottom of them canals from years ago that it's too far gone to do anything the only thing that kept them fish alive was the mud being on top they've been trying to clean up the canals and they've made things worse I releasing chemicals and stuff that have been buried for years, decades
Pretty sure it's an algae bloom. They occur naturally.
I fully agree
A very very big fine would stop this from happening. Not a slap on the wrist.
Couldn’t agree more. It’s time people started taking this more seriously!
I doubt it was an accident, it would have been taken by tanker and discharged way out of view. I see tractors with slurry tankers regularly going into and out of Stoke Bardolph sewage works. Maybe they process the animal waste there as well as human but there is a site there that makes methane or whatever gas from decomposing material. I reckon there is a lot of animal slurry from winter shedding they get rid of, either sprayed on the fields as fertiliser and no doubt sometimes dumped into the waterways, this is what nitrates do, remove oxygen and feed weed etc with carbon dioxide, it looks like weed is thriving in there, poor fish the rotten mongrels that did this 🙁
It's really heartbreaking isn't it. It couldve been intentional, and even if it was a 'mistake' the fact that it has happened a few times indicates otherwise, or that better care shoudlve been taken
Thats heartbreaking to see mate. I hope whoever is responsible is made fully accountable and is prosecuted accordingly. Fair play for raising awareness, lets hope your canal recovers from this as quickly as possible 🤞
Thanks for the support mate. Really awful what’s happened, I hope it doesn’t end up just being a small fine and a slap on the wrist like what I imagine is usually the case. With a bit of luck we will know who’s done it for sure 👍
This is happening far too often.
Let's hope the culprits are prosecuted and given the harshest possible punishment.
I couldn’t agree more. It’s time this stopped
Once the shit's dumped in the canal, you'll never prove who did it! Should just retaliate and burn the farmers crops before they are about to be harvested lol!
To those who were responsible for this carnage WAKE UP..THIS IS OUR HOME !
Strongly agree 👍
Just fallen upon this & have to say it's something sadly ive come across myself on my local canal.. not to the extent on your footage but the scenes are the same ! I used to fish an area abundant with pike & alike where now its practically empty of fish. we pay for our licenses so yeah...we would like answers from the EA where the money goes ? well highlighted fella 👍
Its really unfortunate that this seems to be happening all over based on the comments. I feel like the EA definitely need to name and shame!
Aw man this is horrible 😢 I've fished for over 30yrs and I've taken so much care to release everything I have caught and to see this is devastating, So sad.
Really heartbreaking isn't it!
I think the MP for that area is Ben Wallace - I have just emailed him regarding this very shocking incident and included a link to this video.
Thank you for helping, hopefully something gets done about it and it goes to get brushed under the rug!
Firstly Well done for highlighting this incident 👏
This sort of thing often falls below the radar and is often not reported on enough .Decimating thriving fish stocks and taking years for recovery .Sadly the EA do what they can with the resources they have .Let's hope in this case someone is accountable and fined accordingly .Very sad to see mature fish stocks in that distress .I also note there are many eels which are now a protected species as there numbers decline every year .
Thank you, yeah it’s really heartbreaking. One of the reasons for making this video was to help ensure this doesn’t just get swept under the rug like it likely did the past two times. They need to be prosecuted
Did you take samples of the water and dead fish? Surely the River Board should have been out as soon as possible!!!
The people responsible for this should have been NAMED AND SHAMED.
Samples were taken and fish have been removed now I believe. Slurry has been confirmed as the cause
It's high time farmers went back to older styles of farming. I was reading yesterday that insect life in our country is down by 65% and people were being urged not to put fly papers or traps of any kind up this summer, the reason was pesticieds and chemicals used nowadays in farming. Now this. Fertilizers and pesticides were responsible back in the 50's for wiping out otter (Yes, we all know how bad the otter problem is) but it's a damned sight worse for all of us if we lose all of our fish and wildlife. Maybe it's possible to trace the chemicals back to a farm or find out who has been spraying crops etc over the last week?
I couldn’t comment on the causes or remedies because I don’t know too much about it but I’ve heard that too with the insects. People are being encouraged to plant insect friendly plants in their gardens etc! Hopefully they do manage to trace it and the person responsible gets what’s coming to them
The Gov itself has allowed water companies to release more untreated water into our rivers , but the water companies are still charging the same amount in water rates for not doing what theyre charging for
Criminal and the Gov is in on it , to allow and agree to it
I know, they really need to clamp down on it otherwise there won’t be anything left to protect. It’s heartbreaking
Horrendous to see and thanx for highlighting, I would definitely have fished those eels out, they were the oldest of all those fish and would have stood a good chance of recovery once removed and returned to any other water course. An amazing enigmatic species that is endangered and should be respected by all. Hope whoever is responsible is held accountable.
I’d have definitely done that if there was a place for them to go mate but unfortunately the whole stretch canal was affected not just the marina. Heartbreaking to see especially considering they’re critically endangered
It’s a criminal offence to transfer any fish from one water to another in the uk
Absolutely shocking. Folk need to be held accountable by the for this. It happens far to often. We need to make people in authority, power aware of this dire situation. My heart hurts, such magnificent specimens. Such a sorry state.
I agree its heartbreaking. I hope this has an impact but i don't think the entire system is geared in favour of the environment
Problem is government fines are cheaper than legal waste disposal
This has come up a few times. Completely heartbreaking if this is the reason for it happening, really tough sanctions are needed
Sadly, the Enviroment Agency can only do so much after a funding cut of two thirds recently. Cheers Boris.
Real shame isn't it!
This happened on the Trent n Mersey canal in Northwich at Oakwood Marina during 2nd lockdown....thousands of dead fish in the water due to a diesel spillage, like 20lb Pike, 15--18lb Carp thousands of silver fish, bream, tench, eels etc, was really upsetting to see man
That's a huge shame, i really hope whoever is responsible was held accountable. Heartbreaking
I doubt there is a single angler or environmentalist that wouldn't be sickened by this video. Pollution is rife in UK waters and the problem is this: to prosecute the polluters you need deep pockets and huge amounts of proof. Financing any action against the culprits can be achieved, but it is the scientific evidence, backed up by qualified individuals that is the biggest problem. Farmers, Water Companies etc know this and are confident that they can abuse our waterways and get away with it. Sorry to be so blunt, but they're the facts.
Very true but i believe in this case the EA are prosecuting, hopefully this video has some form of impact in terms of accountability
Absolutely disgusting behaviour by someone who clearly has no appreciation for the environment, they need to be caught and held to account.
Colin Hynard.
Couldn't agree more!
What do you expect? The Tories have weakened environmental laws, so that water authorities can discharge sewage into our waterways. But just think, how much money they will save?
Really awful isn’t it. Something needs to change or there will be no more wildlife to protect. Saddens me so much the way the world is going
Same as the local ponds by me , the EA and the council's have gave up on them and stopped working on them
Real shame isnt it 😔
@@adventurefishinguk heart breaking buddy , not only for the fish but for local kids wanting to learn to fish in the future , etc
Man right here in my country there’s a i river close to my house and a sugar factory spilled all its chemical waste into the river and the river got polluted and killed all fish and alligator since 2019 and it’s still polluted and man it just sad when I saw big crocodile and alligator dead floating big large bay snook just floating man it’s really tough out here man 😔👍🏼
Where are you from? That sounds like a massive shame. Corporations need to start caring more about the environment or there won’t be anything left to look after
The EA are toothless it seems . I hoped this was a thing of the past . They allowed my river to get choked by sewage last year .
They definitely need to start taking more significant action otherwise things like this will keep happening
Farmers do this on purpose, it saves them money just to dump slurry in the rivers and canals. Where i live in northern Ireland our local rivers get the same treatment, one of the farmers was heard saying he doesn't mind paying a fine because it still works out cheaper for him. Our rivers and lakes used to be teaming with fish, now it's just not the same 👎🏻
What a disgusting thing for him to have said. I did wonder if it costs to dispose of slurry, that makes a lot of sense as an explanation. More needs to be done and punishments definitely needs to be made more substantial
The EA will classify that as a minor incident. And will do nothing. (arguably because of lack of funding).
This isn't even a rare occurrence, happens daily and will continue to happen daily.
Still under investigation apparently!
Have you reached out to the Angling Trust they are very good and supportive 👍🏻👍🏻
I haven’t but I will today thanks for the suggestion
The EA don't care about pollution as we are now hearing.Sad state of affairs in this country neglect is obviously the way for years.The northeast England neglect in park lakes the river wear in Sunderland through to Washington is terrible fishing you have more luck catching a condom that's how bad it is .I caught a minnow in Durham while fishing for chub and barbel the EA will stock commercial fisheries and say this where your license money is going and think they are doing a good thing instead of stocking park lakes and rivers up here.
Very true, thanks for watching!
May already be on comments but, join Angling Trust and by extension Fish Legal. They are fighting these things constantly by contacting MP locally and parliamentary lobbying. So sad, thanks for bravery in uploading this.
Thanks Kevin you’re the first person to bring that up. I’m a member of the angling trust and fish legal but I’ve never really known what service fish legal provide. Do you think this is something they would be interested in/able to help with?
@@adventurefishinguk definitely, they will do their utmost to hold EA on task.
Absolute sacrilege. What a waste of quality fish...environmental health issue with whoever had done it. Some of the best conservationists in the world are the caring Anglers and hunters. Governments don't want to know. Pollution is a massive issue.
Still under investigation apparently!
It definitely look like high nitrate levels so a farm is a prime suspect as you say. I have seen that in Sweden and it's soo sad to see all dead fishes.
Still under investigation apparently!
Eels probably minimum 50 years old that size probably 60+ years. Very sad
I had no idea they got that old. Such a shame
There was a farmer prosecuted here in Northern Ireland for dumping Slurry into a major waterway. He killed thousands of fish and other marine life. Given that's a marina maybe it's been an oil or a fuel spill. Bloody heart breaking.
Still under investigation apparently!
That's very sad to see, you don't dump slurry by accident, it's done on purpose, They should be made to pay to put it right 😡
Yeah I think you could be right mate, probably saves costs from doing it the proper way. There’s rumours of a leaking slurry tower, even so better care should be taken
That’s heartbreaking mate. Fair play for putting this video together!
Thanks mate, yeah it’s disgusting what’s happened
For it to happen once is bad enough but three times is unbelievable, people can't be allowed to just get away with polluting rivers, canals and lakes. It's bad enough that fishing has been ruined in a lot of places due to people thinking they can take fish home to eat but this is probably even worse.
Still under investigation apparently!
Post the farmer his dead fish back that he killed. Fish lifes matter"
Haha thats definitely an interesting idea
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What must the ducks think for gods sake , humans are the dirtiest animal ,I’m sick 😔😞☹️
I agree, breaks my heart
I agree - absolutely heartbreaking to see this! It's a really hard watch but well done for documenting it and doing something about it. Mine is a fairly new TH-cam channel, but I'll share the link with my community all the same :) 👍Tight lines
Thanks mate I really appreciate the share. It all helps raise awareness about what’s happened and what will continue to happen unless we do something about it!
I caught the Canal and river trust hiding dead fish (large bream and pike) in the bushes on my local canal. We had a conversation. They were unnecessarily evasive. I could smell diesel but there was also organic pollution, known problem on that stretch which has agricultural drainage along it. First move always is to report to the EA. Even if there are "officials" on scene. I did this on this occasion. The EA/NRW, as this was Dee catchment, were completely unaware of anything happening and told me that the C&R trust were legally obligated to report this immediately to EA/NRW and hadn't. They were pissed actually, oops. So if you want to get something done learn the signs of different pollutants. Foaming is usually down to some organic contamination or possibly detergents. Oil or diesel is usually obvious too. Early reporting can help immensely , enabling EA to get their gear on site quickly. I have had them arrive before I have left at times. They are always happy to get a report. I report invasives to them also, which also helps a lot for them mapping distribution.. They are a public body people should use them more. So on the real action side of things. If you study the local topography and drainage systems, which are all available one way or another, it is possible to track the source reasonably effectively. A member of the public with a documented and evidenced case forces them into action as a public body. Most of all, look after where you fish. Nobody else will.
Shows environment agency needs replaced, they should be telling us
They definitely could be doing more
Hi. Absolutely dreadful and almost certainly avoidable. If you’ve not yet contacted Angling Trust I thoroughly recommend that you do. EA are often complicit in this sort of event as they now don’t prosecute ‘small cases’. Several whistleblowers raised this only a few months ago. Something like 80% of field officer’s reports were dropped.
And don’t forget the background of this government giving water companies permission to dump raw sewage into all of our waters.
Contact your local MP but if she/ he is a Tory you’re probably wasting your time.
I wish you the very best in your efforts as you follow this and thank you for raising awareness.
Thanks for the advice martin i will be contacting the angling trust for sure, it's good we have this evidence for the future too. No doubt the ea wouldnt have taken many pictures and videos. I will get onto the local mp too, thanks for the support and suggestions
That is absolutely fucking horrible, the EA needs to be doing something about this as soon as possible. Hate to see it..
It's awful isn't it. Whoever is responsible needs to be heavily punished
That's absolutely gutting to see, I love sport fishing and overwhelmingly practice cpr, but to see this is absolutely awful.
I hope that those responsible are brought to justice for it.
I really hope so too mate
If you ever experience problem out blue again contact fire brigade they will come and use there pumps for you if they can, we got paddle pumps in place now for emergencys , environment agency are pretty busy this time of year with algae blooms and quite often lacking equipment to go round and arnt much help at best of times , open marina gates to if there closed
That’s a great idea thanks for that. I’ll definitely bear it in mind if I ever see something like this again. Hopefully I won’t, but I don’t see this stopping unless serious sanctions are put in place
Absolutely devastating to see that. People need to be held accountable for it otherwise it will continue to happen unfortunately. Hopefully something can be done about it
I really hope so too. It’s time we started taking this really seriously and putting big sanctions on those responsible
People weak now days nothing will happen
Makes you wonder how many fish have sank and are lying dead on the bottom
Far too many probably 😔
Slurry spills remove all the oxygen resulting in a rapid kill. The EA should be busying themselves with oxygenators, but as usual they'll be at their useless best. Keep me posted please, good luck. Nick
Thanks Nick, yeah aerators would’ve really helped. Instead they took a few water samples and left. Far more they could’ve done I imagine but instead they’re off electro fishing zander.
@@adventurefishinguk and catfish
Disgusting, can only imagine how they treat their livestock.
Still under investigation apparently!
If that event had happened where I currently I live. I I would have recorded some footage and brought itt on to the local radio TV networks. There was a spillage on the river wid here in Essex and it was duely reported to the look east BBC network to be made public. Which it was..Is there a local fishing club that can be galvanised?....Wildlife is currently having a very hard time in this country . More so than the rest of Europe....maybe even contact the spring watch programme....As the legislature stands for now it is a cheaper option for some unscrupulous farmers to dump their sewage and pay the fine rather than dispose of it in the correct manner...... Shocking!! Yea the eels are the last big fish to go as they can resort to semi air breathing.....
Such a huge shame, it’s a stretch run by the pike anglers club so hopefully if it needs to be taken further I’d have their support. It’s been touched on by BBC but massively understated, I’ve emailed it on to a few more news companies too so hopefully I’ll hear back
Disgusting,
I’m behind you all the way
Still under investigation apparently!
I cant believe it
Me neither, really heartbreaking
That’s a terrible thing to see, the sad fact is if the animals where fluffy it would be front page news, no one but anglers care about fish it seems
I agree, its a real shame this isn't being taken more seriously
How awful I regularly fish the canal in Preston I hope the environmental agency prosecute the people who are responsible for this 😔
It would be completely unacceptable for them to not prosecute. If they didn’t, I’ll be starting a petition and getting as many signatures down as possible. Really awful what’s happened
The Environment Agency probably did it
When your wildlife starts to die like that it’s time to address those in charge of the areas to think they aren’t responsible would be foolish
I agree 👍 thanks for watching!
Thanks for sharing with the world though. More importantly your country and I hope local authorities really take this tragedy seriously. It’s absolutely disgusting and disgraceful this has been allowed too happen.
I really hope so too, fortunately this video is getting a bit of traction. With a bit of luck that’ll help make sure it isn’t swept under the rug like the last few times!
It’s not right at all can’t believe how all them Fish have died from it there might of been carp in there too i couldn’t watch
Really heartbreaking isn't it mate 😔
It seems to be down to pollutants, environmental agencies are dealing with this aa well as PAC. Absolutely heartbreaking thank you for bringing this to attention. Hopefully the culprit will be identified.
It really is heartbreaking isn’t it. Such a shame, the fishing on this stretch won’t be the same for years maybe even decades
@@adventurefishinguk i hope they get a huge fine for that but your right it will take a few years but it will bounce back. I used to have arguments with waterwitch pub as their dishwasher used to empty into canal. Its a fantastic water.
Algae bloom. Natural proccess.
@@Michael-tq6xm Seriously? What disgustingly careless arseholes. Washing up liquids have a number of chemicals toxic to aquatic biology. Surfactants alone could have a very detrimental effect on the protective layer surrounding the bodies of fish. Kudos for voicing your concerns .
We pay enough to the E.A. In licence fees why do they not get off their arses and investigate straight away
They have been making progress, but the reporting of it is whats infuriating me. They told the papers there was a "small number of dead fish"
Definately contact Angling Trust they are the major UK anti pollution organisation.and are very effective in brigin g prosecution.Legally yes contact Environment Agency ..you pay your rod licence,get them working
Simon A Manchester
They’re next on my list, maybe fish legal can help too. Thanks for the suggestion Simon!
Wow that horrible to see , I hope you can track who done it and take the right actions , hopefully stocks can sort themselves out . Fingers crossed 👍
I really hope so too mate. Whoever has done it needs to be held accountable
Something like that happend several years at my town in Croatia on River Korana (not so many fish dead like there but close) and no one doing nothing!! :(
And big catfishes and Barbels were dead!
That's a huge shame. Really sad to hear this happens all over the world
Tragic especially those big eels.So old and very rare these days.
I know. They’re critically endangered, it’s heartbreaking to see
Absolutely sickening. What is also sickening is what the EA will not achieve in my experience. If they try hard enough, they may win a case against the culprit, but the fine will not amount to much in the scheme of things. As for future restocking, it’ll be 2oz fish. I never understand this; in my opinion the culprit should be responsible for reinstating all lost stock, no matter the cost of 10lb Pike and 3lb Perch (it’s pretty simple to record the losses when they are floating belly-up!) and the clean-up costs and decontamination costs prior to restocking. The Angling Trust would far better represent us and anybody who cares about our waterways.
Not an enjoyable watch, but well done Bud 👍
Very true. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching. Hopefully some restocking takes place and a sizeable fine is given to the responsible party
Thank you for having the Balls to make this video.
I could not watch the eel bit & had had to skip it.
it boils my Piss that this sort of negligent,barbaric,incompetent act can happen in the 21st century : (
No problem. I’ve just been informed that eels are actually a critically endangered species, heartbreaking.
That's disgusting mate. You want to get onto Vinnie Jones he's very much into conservation and probably do a piece on it.
That’s a really good idea thanks mate I may try send an email
thankyou for highlighting this...the ones responsible needs to be held accountable to the highest degree
Couldn't agree more!
If this is not the first time this has happened, where are the Environment agency and what are they doing.
Unfortunately they are massively under reporting it. They have been on the case though with some aerators
Absolutely disappointed and sickened to see this I hope whoever is responsible the environmental agency’s hang them out to dry and fine the hell out of them I truly do all I can say is Thankyou and respect for what you doing
I couldn’t agree more Whoever is responsible needs to be dealt with properly otherwise it will keep happening. Thanks for the support
I was about too say was it oil leaking from the boats or something or a algae Bloom or low oxygen but yeah if slurry is leaking from fields and making it’s way into the canal it will be poisoning the water and all fish if I heard sooner I’d of been over too Lancaster too help net any surviving fish and relocate them away from that marina too give them a chance 😢🐟
It’s really heartbreaking isn’t it, I believe so much more should be done about it from the organisations. I may well have another visit and see if there’s anything more that can be done
@@adventurefishinguk Yeah take another Visit just too see if it’s not getting any worse or anything and keep me updated
Message me on Instagram same name as my a TH-cam
It’s just shocking :( well documented mate and this will highlight the tragedy that’s happened 👍🏻
Really heartbreaking isn’t it. Hopefully whoever is responsible is found dealt with so it never happens again
Bloody disgusting me an hubby both fish it looks like petrol on the top matd
Heartbreaking isn’t it!
I would love to come and help some fish as I have a level 2 husbandy and fisherys ,fish breeding and fish care and aquatics back ground
You should contact the EA and offer your support
@@adventurefishinguk i have tried in the past they ignore me
@@adventurefishinguk have u got a phone number the pollution got down to garstang
This is awful I hope the person/people responsible get punished
I really hope so too 😔
Gutting mate hopefully the culprit is held responsible. Make sense that it has happened recently as none of the fish seemed to be huge like you said. Keep me updated and if there’s any petitions/ online work I can do I will happily standby you. Thank you for sharing this video hopefully lots of people see it and will help too.😔💔
Thanks mate I really appreciate the offer of help! It’s really upsetting isn’t it, hopefully they find out who is responsible
This is hard to watch, hope the EA get to the bottom of it and someone is prosecuted.
I really hope so too 😔
That’s appalling buddy and put a lump in my throat just watching your video. I don’t even go fishing there but that doesn’t matter. A fish is a fish no matter where it lives and to see all that carnage is really upsetting. I hope the environment agency get to the bottom of it. No matter who gets prosecuted for this terrible devastation it can never replace what has gone and been lost. Keep in touch buddy and let us all know how things go if you find out. 😢🎣
Can’t agree more it’s absolutely disgraceful what’s happened. I’m worried that a prosecution will never take place, and if it does then it’ll be no more than a small fine and a slap on the wrist. Otherwise it wouldn’t keep happening! Huge huge shame that this is still going on in this day and age
@@adventurefishinguk It was on The BBC news as well buddy so let’s hope they can firstly clean the area and remove the poor dead fish and once it’s all sorted and they’re no chance of a repeat of what’s happened they can restock the canal to try and help somewhat. It’s people like you that make a difference and as anglers we try and look after what we love … fingers crossed buddy 😀😀🎣🎣
Unfortunately if this was a river/canal full of dead otters and not fish it would be covered by the national press! Fish are not cuddly they are hidden beneath water hardly any body will be concerned apart from fishermen! It's sickening.
I agree, it's heartbreaking isn't it. Its time things changed
It is absolutely heartbreaking!
So frustrating, had this happen at a broad near me, was a diesel leak from a boat.
Heartbreaking isn’t it. Really unacceptable
Job for DEFRA..!
If it's slurry there needs to be an investigation to find out where, when and who is responsible.
Unfortunately DEFRA seem to be not doing their due diligence. Similarly to this, but on a much larger scale, millions of crustaceans and birds have been washing up dead on the beaches of the North East where I live. I'm talking absolute stacks. They have assessed and claimed it was down to a toxic algal bloom. No chance. More likely the dredging of the Tees bringing up loads of shite from the old chemical works.
Tragic.
I believe there is an investigation underway
It costs the environment agency a ton of money to pursue through the courts. This is why they're reluctant to go to court. They're under funded too. But still contact them, especially as there are dead fish in those numbers.
They attended and took water samples. As for them taking any sort of legal action I’m doubtful. I hope it doesn’t lead to a small fine and a slap on the wrist
So sad bro, humanity have failed on all fronts.
Really heartbreaking isn’t it. I’ve posted an update video out now
This is a bad time of year for this to happen. Firstly fish are spawning so we'll lose a batch of new fry. Secondly the water is warming now and warmer water holds less oxygen. The canal also seems to have huge weed growth and at this time of year something called 'dawn depletion' can kick in. All in all a perfect storm which could be lethally exacerbated by a thoughtless farmer trying to save a few quid under cover of darkness. Im so angry that this still happens.
It makes me really angry too. There’s never a good time for something like this to happen but you’re right it’s hit at a particularly bad point. What a massive shame, I wonder if it was accidental or on purpose
Hard to say but there will be an investigation. If it was accidental they're more likely to find it, if on the other hand it was deliberate the chances are it was done in the dark with the tracks long since covered.
@@nicholasmoore6716 very true!
Let’s be honest what could live in that horrible water
Very sad isn't it!
Environmental mate report it
Already reported to the EA and it’s currently being dealt with
just wrong , think how long it takes these fish to grow to the sizes we've been shown , more so in a canal
To catch fish of these sizes in a canal is hard as they arent stocked like commercial lakes & pits
I know, what’s even more heartbreaking is a picture is circulating of 7 bin bags full of dead fish including a pike between 15 and 20 pounds
Devastating. Can take years to recover from something like that
I know. Truly heartbreaking, hopefully it clears up and has a fighting chance at being what it once was
That's awful to see.we call our selves civilised and educated.if it turns out to be human related what right have we to run this planet
It’s definitely human caused unfortunately. The main question is who and was it accidental. Even if it was accidental, the fact that it’s happened multiple times suggests that better care should’ve been taken
Farmers spreading slurry in fields most likely, they do it in the rain out of laziness to and then runs from the fields into the rivers. I think the EA are putting a stop to farmers spreading slurry at certain times of the year for example, dry summer months etc, but they were meant to pass this law years ago, the nitrates also cling to the river bed which makes it all slimey and reduces ideal spawning grounds for the fish massively ! Farming is more intensive than it used to be years ago, farms have 400 cows now as apposed to 30 years ago, all that slurry has to go somewhere when it backs up in the pit, it's a disgrace in 2022 they should know better than this. What's even worse is in order to get their subsidiary payments they stick to tight guidelines but this happens all the time
It’s a huge shame. I don’t know too much about it but it makes me wonder if it costs them to dispose of and a quick dump into the canal job saves costs. Rumour has it there’s an ongoing leak in the slurry tank
@@adventurefishinguk yeah you're right, the cost of disposing it is less than eventually getting a fine
fucking joke we all pay for rod licence in environment get on it
I know, really heartbreaking isn’t it
This happened on the Leeds-Liverpool in Leigh a couple of years ago. The EA reported several hundreds of fish dead when it was in fact several thousands. They basically swept the whole thing under the carpet and as far as I know nobody was ever held accountable. Thankfully the area has recovered relatively quickly.
That's a huige shame. I fear the same may happen here, partially why i've decided to document it so thoroughly
A similar thing happened on my local river the parrett in Somerset in the mid 70s found it when we went to choose some fishing spots. Us young lads counted more than 200 dead fish in 1/4 mile of river! Like you say, not a pleasant smell. Soul destroying to see all those dead fish.
Horrible to hear isn't it!