{"id":282782,"date":"2026-02-13T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/282782\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T21:07:07","slug":"kennet-and-avon-incident-leads-to-death-of-1000-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/282782\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennet and Avon incident leads to death of 1,000 fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">About a thousand fish have been found dead or suffocating in a &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221; pollution incident on a canal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fish were discovered in the Kennet and Avon Canal in Devizes, Wiltshire, on Thursday evening, with many dead and more coming to the surface gasping for air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A kilometre of canal has been affected, but owners and managers The Canal and River Trust (CRT), say that they believe the incident was a &#8220;one-off&#8221; and that the source of pollution had stopped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The trust is working with the Environment Agency (EA), who said it is working to &#8220;raise oxygen levels in the water&#8221; and is investigating potential causes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"About a thousand fish have been found dead or suffocating in a &#8220;heartbreaking&#8221; pollution incident on a canal.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-282782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}