Anglers have reported a “heartbreaking” fall in the number of fish in part of the River Eden.<\/p>\n
Members of Carlisle Angling Association said the number of catches had fallen off a cliff and they had found suspected sewage fungus in a stretch of the river close to a sewage outlet.<\/p>\n
The EA said it took concerns about pollution seriously and investigated where appropriate.<\/p>\n
United Utilities, which runs the nearby sewage treatment works, said effluent from its plant was treated to the highest standards.<\/p>\n
Ash Temple from the association said he had been fishing part of the river near Carlisle Wastewater Treatment Works since he was young.<\/p>\n
He said: “There were salmon getting caught everywhere up and down the river; you’d see salmon jumping everywhere.<\/p>\n
“It was fantastic, but [over] the last 10 years it’s kind of fell off a cliff.<\/p>\n
“Breaks my heart really. This is where I grew up.”<\/p>\n
His friend and fellow angler Gary Byrne said there was a longstanding and popular fishing pool there, known as the Bone Mill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anglers have reported a “heartbreaking” fall in the number of fish in part of the River Eden. Members…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-687550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}