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Nitrates in Selwyn River up 50% in 22 months, Federation of Freshwater Anglers says

Nitrates in Selwyn River up 50% in 22 months, Federation of Freshwater Anglers says Conan Young © RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King Canterbury Regional Council (ECan) is being accused of creating a monster that it can no longer control when it comes to degraded water quality in the region. That is according to Federation of Freshwater Anglers, which has been testing the Selwyn River and has found polluting nitrates have increased by up to 50 percent in the space of just 22 months. The federation s president and long time angler Peter Trolove had been monitoring the Selwyn with the help of a nitrate tester, bought with a grant from a pub charity.

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The Selwyn River, which people can no longer swim in, was once a top trout fishing destination. If you go back before World War Two, it was considered one of the top half dozen trout fisheries in the dominion. And they had fish counts of over 200,000 trout going up the river, and it s fallen to, well, I don t know if they find any now, Trolove said. JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/STUFF The Selwyn River, pictured in 2019, was once a top trout fishing destination. The blame lay fair and square with the regional council and its decision to allow intensive dairy farming around the Selwyn and across the plains, he said.

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