Took part in the SAS paddle out in Broad Haven to make awareness to the lead cause of river pollution, eutrohopication incidents and temporary ocean dead zones all being driven by animal-agriculture here in Wales

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1. We used to have the best salmon and sewin rivers in Europe at one point , now our rivers only holds memories of years past . The phenomenal shoals of sewin that would turn the rivers black with numbers, the giant salmon which silently glide upstream with tails as big as dinner plates have all gone . There needs to be a serious shake up and major financial investments if we are to witness this again in our lifetime. I understand that the welsh water has been hit hard with fines due to its failings, but this goes way deeper than the river itself. The local authorities giving out planning permission to chicken broilers which sit on the tribs of many major rivers , I fully understand how hard it is to farm post brexit but the only way forwards for many farmers is to increase their heards greatly esp dairy which is producing millions of tonnes of slurry yearly . Instead of getting oppositional to dairy farms work with them and encourage the slurry to go into methane production for energy. This isn’t just about water clarity it’s about reinvesting into the land management which feeds into the tribs / rivers , I know the Tywi very well as I have fished it for years and have seen the near total collapse of the game fishing along its banks . I have been in Carmarthen Tesco and the carpark has been choking in the smell of shit coming from the river … I let my dog swim at Llansteffan but had all the windows down in the truck as he stunk of raw sewage, and I mean to the point we both were retching all the way home . There isn’t one contributing factor on the demise of the Welsh rivers there are many and now they have been left unchecked for so many years the results are blindingly obvious…

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