{"id":335349,"date":"2025-12-08T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335349\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T17:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:30:32","slug":"foam-covered-river-thet-in-thetford-to-be-restocked-with-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/335349\/","title":{"rendered":"Foam-covered River Thet in Thetford to be restocked with fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">A river that was covered by a thick layer of foam two months ago will be restocked with 3,000 fish as part of an ongoing restoration effort. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The substance <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwyn3ql93j3o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">coated an &#8220;extensive&#8221; stretch of the River Thet <\/a>in the centre of Thetford, Norfolk, in October, killing up to 1,000 juvenile fish and fry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Environment Agency said it would release a mix of native one-year-old species, including roach, dace and chub, into the river on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The organisation has been investigating the source of the pollutant and said reintroducing fish at two sites was key to helping the river return to &#8220;full ecological strength&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;Specialist teams have carried out extensive water-quality testing and ongoing monitoring will continue over the coming months to track fish survival rates and river recovery,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The River Thet is a globally-rare chalk stream, with almost a third of the world&#8217;s chalk streams found in the East of England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Thetford River Group, a local preservation collective, said the foam substance covering the river in October followed a similar issue in December 2024 and called for any perpetrators to be detected and prosecuted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Environment Agency said investigations of this type were complex and time-consuming and typically took many months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A river that was covered by a thick layer of foam two months ago will be restocked with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-335349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}