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📣 BREAKING NEWS 📣. We have been granted permission to challenge the Government's Sewage Overflows Plan. Find out more 👉
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📢 Breaking NEWS 📢. In response to our complaint, OEP has said the Environment Agency, Ofwat and Secretary of State may have broken 'key points of the law' in relation to sewage spills. Find out more 👇.
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🚨 Tomorrow we're taking sewage to the courts 🚨. Rivers across the country are dying BUT current government plans look set to allow raw sewage to flow until at least 2050 👎 . Act now to #StopTheSewage 👇 .
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⚠️ Breaking ⚠️. Yesterday we started a court action seeking to force the withdrawal and redrafting of the Government's Sewage Overflows Plan. We need to #EndSewagePollution. Find out more.➡️
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Today, our legal case against sewage pollution is heard in the High Court. Last week, @NickMeasham reminded us why it is time for the Government to end its ‘smoke and mirrors’ approach to environmental regulation once and for all. Stay tuned for live updates. #StopTheSewage
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Across the UK, untreated sewage is discharged into rivers daily. We don't think this is good enough, and nor should you. Find out more about the impact of sewage on fresh water here ➡️
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A @Cambridge_Uni study finds in 2014 460,000 tonnes of wild-caught fish were used to produce 179,000 tonnes of salmon in Scotland. 76% of the wild-caught fish were species that are commonly eaten by humans. How can this ever be considered "sustainable"?
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Removing one of Scotland's biggest dams opens up the River Dee to Atlantic salmon for the first time in over 100 years. An environmental milestone to celebrate 👏.
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👉 NEW on the BLOG 👈. On 4 July, we’re taking the Government to the High Court in our fight against sewage pollution. @NickMeasham explains how the law is being broken & why the Government's plan is not the answer. Read now 👇.
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Pollution incidents on the River Dee were reported *15 times* in the past year, as @ScottishEPA fails in its duty to protect this Special Area of Conservation for wild Atlantic salmon. Follow the link 👇 to find out more.
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Sewage spill on the River Test at Fullerton CSO this week 😡. Yet one more reason we are taking the Government to court on 4 July. We want them to enforce the law and compel Southern Water and the rest to invest in capacity to stop this. #stopthesewage
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WildFish Issues legal challenge to Government's sewage plan.
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🚨Stop the Sewage🚨. Littered with human waste, this supporter video shows the river bank near a storm drain used by @unitedutilities that discharges into the River Kent. Will you help us fight back and #Stopthesewage ?.
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🔊 Our vice president @Feargal_Sharkey speaks out about the "'treacherous' and environmentally damaging" Scottish salmon farming industry 🔊. #OfftheTable @Daily_Record.
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Sewage in rivers ➡️ our lawyers concluded that DEFRA's Storm Overflow Discharge Reduction Plan is unlawful. We've issued a 'letter before action' as our first steps. We wait for DEFRA's response. If you support our work, please make a donation.
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This year, the Scottish salmon farming industry reported a record mortality rate for August more than double that of some previous years. There is no place for this damaging industry in our waters. Help us take farmed salmon #Offthetable. Visit 👉
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“This is one of the most egregious acts of ecological vandalism that I have seen in 25 years of working on rivers in the UK. I have been on site and I am shaking with anger at what has been done to my local river.". Said Guy Linley-Adams for S&TC,.
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The government has refused to hold polluting water companies to account, so we’re taking them to court. According to a recent plan submitted to parliament, raw sewage will be allowed to flow into our waters until at least 2050. #Stopthesewage
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We have submitted a formal compliant to the Office for Environmental Protection on the failure of Government to enforce #sewagepollution rules and stop sewage discharge into English rivers. Read why in @guardiannews this morning #EndSewagePollution.
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NEW on the BLOG 👉 We must not be billed twice for sewage pollution. Water companies and regulators should have considered the obvious demands of population growth and new housing on sewage infrastructure when regulating the industry. Learn more 👇 .
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Nick Measham,. One of my first acts as CEO is to seek out champions for our work who share our aims and will add their own unique influence to our campaigning. I am delighted to announce Feargal Sharkey has been appointed as an S&TC Vice President.
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Tonight’s #countryfile failed to mention the risk that parasitic sea lice emanating from #scottishsalmon pose to our wild fish. Infecting wild salmon and sea trout, the outcome can be fatal. Find the facts at #scottishsalmon #offthetable
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Spot the difference. !? @MattStaniek.
This is how a lake should and shouldn’t look. Both lakes are:.- glacially formed ✅.- over 10km in length ✅.- split into 2 basins ✅.- large populations plus tourism industries ✅. The difference? Lake Annecy has no sewage discharged it. Blog here ⬇️.
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". viewers were left 'sick to their stomach'" after last night's @BBCCountryfile report on the Scottish salmon farming industry and rightly so. It's time to take farmed salmon #OfftheTable . @TheSun .
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Sea lice multiply on salmon farms, transferring to wild fish – sometimes with fatal consequences. Join our new campaign to take farmed salmon #Offthetable – and help protect our wild fish populations.
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We cannot ignore the environmental, sustainability and animal welfare impacts of #scottishsalmon. Matt's interview on #countryfile couldn't have made the threat any clearer. @scotgov, we need urgent action now.
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❌ Environmentally damaging.❌ Risk to wild fish populations .❌ Inherently unsustainable. We’re calling on chefs and restaurants to say *no* to farmed salmon. Find out why here ➡️
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Over 150 Off the Table chefs call out the open-net salmon farming industry. “I think it’s such a poor product, and because of the effect that it has on wild salmon, I won’t serve it”. 👉@lvgmorse.
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We've put @Ofwat and the @EnvAgency on notice. It's time to #StoptheSewage once and for all. Follow the link below to learn more about the next phase of our legal challenge ✊.
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COP26 menu includes farmed salmon from company with appalling environmental record. You couldn't make it up. #salmonfarming #aquaculture #scotland
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Leading the way 👏 It's time to take farmed salmon #Offthetable.
Really pleased that this hotel I am dining out at this evening had this printed in the menu. First time I have seen this and I have complimented the head waiter for their stance #offthetable @WildFishCons
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❌ Government's plan to deal with sewage pollution fails to address the cause of the problem ❌. It is also confusing and contradictory and sets targets as far ahead as 2050!. We need urgent action now to #EndSewagePollution - not in 28 years' time.
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Next week our legal case is heard in court 👍 . We have one simple ask of the Government: enforce the existing law to stop water companies from dumping raw sewage into our rivers. Stay tuned for live updates from 4 July. #StopTheSewage.
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Untreated sewage has made our rivers a complete mess, but we can turn things around IF the law to protect rivers from sewage is enforced. Follow the link 👇 to learn more about our work to stop sewage pollution.
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At least two of the #Scottishsalmon farms featured in this article👇have @ASC_aqua certification. Bakkafrost’s West Strome farm was certified in August – despite having sea lice levels of 2.14 at the end of July – more than 4 times ASC’s own limits.
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Loch Duart smoked salmon was served at 10 Downing Street for the King's Coronation Big Lunch. Perhaps the smoked salmon came from the same farm for which Loch Duart reported sea lice levels above the Gov set limits during April? Bon appetit!. The stats👇.
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While Scotland blunders on with the damaging and unsustainable practice of open-net salmon farming, Iceland calls a temporary halt to new salmon farming permits.
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On average, in Britain we use more water per-head, per-day, than anywhere else in Europe. Chalkstreams are taking the brunt of this demand. If the Government is serious about protecting our environment, the fate of England’s chalk streams is the litmus test. #wateraction
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While the trade association for Scottish salmon praises the industry’s ability to address "environmental challenges”, September's average sea lice level was the joint highest of the year. We don't think this is something to celebrate. Do you?.
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❌ BREAKING NEWS ❌. We've published an open letter to @ScottishEPA, criticising their laughable approach to protecting one of Scotland's most iconic species from sea lice. Follow the link 👇👇 to find out more.
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The number of fish that died on Scottish salmon farms during May this year 👇A huge loss of farmed fish AND the many millions of wild-caught fish that have been fed to these fish. Our planet needs a sustainable food system. Open-net salmon farming is not that. #OfftheTable
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UK Government's food strategy suggests expansion of fish farming to potentially replace some meat in British diets. This is the worst possible scenario for wild fish populations and fails to consider the devastating environmental impacts of fish farming.
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Win or lose, the Government will be forced (by our case) to explain why it ignores this legislation and will be under intense scrutiny to get rid of the poo. For more info about our legal challenge 👇 #StopTheSewage.
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We are launching a river sampling ‘superhub’ in Windermere to address escalating sewage pollution concerns. @MattStaniek explains why in his latest video.
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.@GordonRamsay @PaulAinsw6rth and @nyeshajoyce - the chefs and restaurants committed to NOT serving unsustainable farmed salmon are the true #NextLevelChefUK champions. A quick look below the surface at a farm run by your sponsor @MowiScotlandLtd shows why. #Offthetable
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Open-net salmon farms put our wild salmon and sea trout at risk from parasites (notably sea lice) and diseases. Escaped farmed salmon also threaten the genetic integrity of wild salmon and further compromise their future survival. Get the facts at
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While we wait to hear the outcome of our legal challenge against sewage pollution, here is a reminder of our case presented to the High Courts in July. #StoptheSewage.
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Guests @stevecoogan65 @joelycett @LeeMack and @PaulWhitehouse are joining @MattStaniek in his campaign to save #LakeWindermere from sewage pollution. Monday 29 May - 12.00 to 15.00 - The Glebe, Windermere. Follow the link 👇 to find out more 🪧🌊.
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In today's @Daily_Record 👇. “. it's time for SEPA to start taking serious action to curb all forms of pollution in our waters - for the benefit of Scotland now, and Scotland in the future.”. @DanVevers.
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Southern Water is finally held to account but this environmental disaster should not have been allowed to happen. The @EnvAgency's inadequate monitoring of sewage treatment must be changed and Operator Self Monitoring must be scrapped #riverpollution.
Southern Water is in court today at the start of a four-day sentencing hearing for breaching its environmental permits 51 times over a five-year period, leading to more than 8,000 pollution incidents at wastewater plants in north Kent and the Solent.
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📢 DONATE to our legal challenge today📢. We've been given permission to apply for judicial review of the Government's "Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan". Donate today 🔽🔻🔽 and help fund our legal challenge.
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It's spawning time! Salmon eggs are extremely sensitive to excess sediments, which can prevent them from getting oxygen and expose them to chemical pollutants like pesticides. To protect salmon and other aquatic life, we must keep sediment on land and out of rivers. #wateraction
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The WildFish team are back in London for day 2 in the high court 🤞👏. Follow the link 👇 to find out more about our legal challenge.
"Water firms discharged raw sewage 300,000 times last year, court hears. Vast majority of releases were illegal, high court told". Well done everyone at @WildFishCons leading where others fear to tread. 👏👏👏.
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Water companies cannot be trusted. The @Evenlode_ECP is ending its collaboration with @thameswater after it fails to commit to vital investment to protect the Evenlode. Unless Thames and others are forced to invest in the infrastructure, our rivers have no hope.
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Data from @EnvAgency shows 88% of salmon rivers in England now ‘at risk’ or ‘probably at risk’. Climate change is damaging stocks globally but water quality, salmon farming and barriers to migration are impacting too - and we can do something about it.
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Here's our Chief Executive, Nick, with the latest from our legal challenge to #StoptheSewage . Follow the link below 👇 to learn more about the letters we've sent to @Ofwat and @EnvAgency.
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Would you buy Scottish salmon if you knew…?. Supermarkets face a crisis of credibility unless they take immediate action to address failings in their own farmed salmon buying policies, which risk Scotland’s wild fish and marine ecosystems. Full Report:
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Surely a mortality rate of 53% on one salmon farm in a single month .makes a mockery of the claim (by the farm's owner) that salmon farming .produces "sustainable seafood"?.
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Soil Association Organic certified #scottishsalmon farms can still treat fish with medicines containing chemical pesticides known to be toxic to marine life, including lobsters. Is this really farming in balance with nature?. More here 👉 #offthetable
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What #countryfile didn't include was Matt explaining that the salmon industry's 25% mortality rate was unacceptable AND unsustainable. During the full interview, Matt also stressed that “welfare-led” @rspcaassured sets NO limit on the number of salmon dying on certified farms.
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Yesterday Lloyd Morse, an award winning chef and co-owner of The Palmerston in Edinburgh, joined our #Offthetable campaign. To find out more about why he believes farmed salmon has no place on sustainable menus check out the article below 👉.
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In response to our complaint, the @OfficeforEP has decided to investigate whether @Ofwat , the Environment Secretary and the @EnvAgency have failed with their environmental duties relating to dumping raw sewage in rivers 👏👏.
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Join us and say no to open-net #salmonfarming in Scotland. In the face of the Scottish Government's encouragement of the salmon farming industry, we will now oppose the continued operation of all open-net salmon farms. Pledge your support
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This is not just farmed salmon. this is @marksandspencer farmed salmon. Footage at M&S supplier's farm shows the true reality of open-net salmon farming:. ✅ sea lice ✅ disease ✅ high mortality . Join us and let's get farmed salmon #Offthetable.
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Is this “responsible farming”?. #scottishsalmon farms are being certified by @ASC_aqua @rspcaassured and @SoilAssociation Organic despite substantial pollution, poor parasite control and sky-high mortality rates. These schemes risk being little more than greenwashing.
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There must be a halt to any more salmon farms in Scotland. Published today, in @heraldscotland this full page advert summarises recent public polling and is endorsed by 21 NGOs and community groups. Read here: #saynotosalmonfarming
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📣 BREAKING NEWS 📣. @BBCPanorama turns the spotlight on water pollution scandals. The @EnvAgency has serious questions to answer over its disgraceful response to reports of pollution incidents in the northwest, attending only 6 out of 931 over 3 years.
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"Britain’s river life is being wiped out by a deadly combination of farm chemicals, sewage and over-abstraction by the water industry. 86% of rivers and streams fail to meet the “good ecological status” demanded by EU and UK standards for water.".
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“Organic salmon is a con. It is simply a marketing ploy. ". Many people believe that organic salmon is environmentally friendly and sustainable. Our Scottish director sets the record straight - especially relevant as we gear up for the festive period:
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Salmon farming epitomises an industry that is unsustainable #saynotosalmonfarming.
Lice levels not just beyond "industry limits" but almost beyond belief. Hundreds of thousands of salmon swimming in their own effluent. Effluent, which is leeching out into Scottish seas like enormous disease ridden tea bags. There is just too much wrong with this industry.
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Frustrating & disappointing to watch one of the UK’s top chefs @GordonRamsey lead @ITV’s new series #NextLevelChefUK - sponsored by an industry that has no regard for the env, fish welfare or the health of the planet. Farmed salmon has NO place on sustainable menus. #Offthetable.
UK. Thx for watching ! Hope you enjoyed and next week we're in for quite the headach--I mean treat. when @Ginofantastico joins #NextLevelChefUK ! Catchup now on @ITVX and see you next week Gx #NextLevelChef
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🔵 Atlantic salmon deserve better protection from sea lice 🔵. SEPA has published its proposal for managing sea lice in Scotland. Over-complicated at best, it fails to deliver what is needed to protect wild fish from sea lice 😠. Our response in full 👉
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Challenged by our team, the Environment Agency has back-pedalled on its attempt to disapply the law on farmers not spreading manures this autumn where such spreading would exceed the needs of the soil or crops. Read the news story in full here
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We agree with what Feargal said!. Feargal Sharkey, former Undertones singer, and now waterways campaigner said: “It’s not moving the goalposts it’s taking a chainsaw to them.”.
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The new Office for Environmental Protection has said water pollution from sewage and farming must be tackled as an urgent priority. The truth is, it should have been a priority long before now. We hope this will be the turning point.
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Iceland has seen a recent surge in protests against open-net salmon farming. Catapulting the profile of this, Björk and Rosalía have released a song against the industry, with proceeds going towards Iceland’s legal fight to protect its fjords.
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New Scottish Government study confirms the severe damage being done to wild salmon populations by salmon farming.
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Norwegian authorities are crystal clear that "escaped farmed salmon & salmon lice" are "the largest threats to wild salmon". Why is Scottish Government incapable of similar clarity about the impact of salmon farming in the west Highlands & Islands? .See 👉
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🚨@LochDuartSalmon say they produce "unrivalled Scottish salmon"🚨. They are indeed "unrivalled" - decisively leading the pack in the Sept mortality league table. Chefs & restaurants using Loch Duart salmon need to understand the true cost of what they’re serving. #Offthetable.
Shockingly high mortality in many Scottish salmon farms in September. How can this industry claim to have high welfare standards?
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Atlantic salmon return to their rivers of origin to spawn. As a result, genetically distinct populations adapted to their local conditions have formed. Despite their local adaptations, they all need pollution-free, flowing water. That's what we're campaigning for. #wateraction
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🟠 Top UK chefs join campaign to take farmed salmon Off the Table 🟠. Award-winning chefs @ChefTomHunt @dougiemcmaster & Darren Broom have today announced support for #OfftheTable which calls on chefs and restaurants to take farmed salmon off their menus.
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NEW on the BLOG 👉 What does “protection for chalk streams” in the Levelling-Up Bill amount to?. As the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill reaches the closing stages of the Parliamentary process, we explain how chalk streams are no better off than before.
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🔵 NEW on the BLOG 🔵 . South West Water is removing vast quantities of water from the River Avon and plans to do so for another two decades. We look at the devastating consequences for the river & its wildlife. Follow the link to read the blog today 👇.
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"What the NFU should be doing is using its resources to make members true stewards of the countryside. " Our CEO, Nick Measham in response to the news that the National Farmers Union is helping farm businesses push back against Nitrate Vulnerable Zones.
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World 🌍 Rivers Day is a reminder of how important our waterways are. It is a day to celebrate them & encourage people to preserve & protect them. Our incredible SmartRivers volunteers monitor water quality on 88 rivers. This data is the foundation of our work. #worldriversday
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🚨 Act now to #KeepWaterinRivers🚨. Water companies must not depend even more on our rivers to meet water supply demands. 🤳 Contact your local MP today and ask: where is my water coming from?. Act now 👉 #KeepWaterinRivers
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A new all party parliamentary group (APPG) on chalkstreams meets for the first time next week. If your MP has a chalkstream in their constituency please ask them to join the APPG. Here’s how to find your MP:. . and please let us know.
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Evidence yet again that water companies cannot be trusted. Great to see the Evenlode Catchment Partnership getting the coverage it deserves 👏 .
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The open-net salmon farming industry's ongoing failure to control parasitic sea lice is a disaster for our wild Atlantic salmon. This has to end. Sea-lice outbreak on Icelandic salmon farm a ‘welfare disaster’, footage shows
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We are live at #Offthetable with host @Feargal_Sharkey and guest speaker Elvar Fridriksson highlighting the global issue that is open-net salmon farming. Join us at
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Dozens of dead salmon and trout have sparked concerns about a potential pollution incident on the #RiverSpey yet @ScottishEPA says there has been no evidence of a recent pollution event. Analysis of the river samples may tell a different story.
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The Environmental Performance Assessment released today again highlights the water industry is broken. The vast majority of companies are CONTINUING to damage the environment. Things need to CHANGE dramatically.
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Salmon farming company @MowiScotlandLtd, the @scotgov National Marine Plan and @ScottishEPA all acknowledge the link between sea lice and wild salmon - so why won't the Scottish Salmon industry body, writes @JohnAitchison1 of @CCNScotland .
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Shocking photos show sea lice rampant on salmon farms in Scotland. Nick Measham, CEO S&TC, said:. “Badly managed fish farms have severe implications for wild fish, especially when salmon farmers allow sea lice numbers to run out of control.".
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Certification bodies and supermarkets have a fundamental duty not to mislead customers on the reality of farmed salmon, but it appears they are failing dismally on this. @FerretScot .
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Conservative MP @Jesse_Norman has spoken out about the failure of #Welsh and #English river agencies to tackle pollution on the #RiverWye - pity he can't energise the rest of his party.
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This is utterly shocking and clearly illustrates the lack of political will and resources to protect and restore our rivers
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