Fish die in hundreds
PA Nelson Hundreds of trout, eels, and freshwater crayfish died in a Ikm stretch of the Brook Stream, near Nelson, at the week-end. The water resources officer of the Nelson Catchment Board, Mr K. Shirley, said that nearly all the life in the stream had been killed. Several hundred trout and many small eels were found dead by school children on Saturday. Mr Shirley said yesterday that the larger eels and freshwater crayfish were also dying. The fish appeared to have been poisoned by fresh cement washed down the stream from a sewer crossing which is being laid in the stream bed by a playing field. “I checked with the contractors,” Mr Shirley said, “and they had not used any quick-drying chemicals in the concrete making. However, fresh cement can be extremely toxic, and there was quite a lot deposited in the stream bed this morning.”
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Press, 17 March 1977, Page 7
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