How the River Kent went from a haven for anglers to a flood of condoms, wet wipes - and no fish

'Sanitary towels, paper towels, I will say durexes have been hanging from the trees, the branches... It's quite upsetting' The River Kent in Kendal is beset by pollution, from agricultural runoff to sewage CapurrodDaniel reports 💧 SaveBritainsRivers

The Kent is a site of special scientific interest, which should give it legal protections, but action so far has been limited. Fish Legal, the Angling Trust and the WWF have taken the Government to court twice, in 2015 and 2021, to try and force it to act on the farming runoff sullying the Kent and 36 other legally protected rivers.

“Our membership is definitely slowing up. At the moment we’re down a third and what we normally would have for the club,” he said. “All the publicity in the, our local paper, people are thinking ‘Oh, well, I’m not fishing there if it’s like that.'” “It was a brilliant river. It was lovely and clean,” added Mr Carradus. Watercrook used to look like the upstream stretches of the Kent, he told. “The north end of town, that hasn’t got pollution, you can see all the stones, the colours and the bottom of the riverbed. You go below United Utilities in Kendal and the bottom looks dead. It’s got algae all over the stones… and at certain times you can’t even see the bottom of the river.

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