Pollution Blights the Upper Kennet

[Anglers' Net]

A serious pesticide pollution has hit the upper River Kennet this week

resulting in an almost total wipe out of the aquatic invertebrates in

much of a 15 km stretch downstream from Marlborough to Hungerford. As

yet fish populations remain unscathed but there are concerns that there

may be residual effects that are still to come. Much of this stretch of

famous chalk river, renowned for its trout fishing, is situated within a

SSSI.

 

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