River Avon is the only river in the south of England to feature in the worst ten for spills.
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00:00I'm Paul Coulson, I work for the Institute of Fisheries Management, and at the moment
00:06I'm the Acting Chief Executive.
00:08You've got lots of money being earned, big bonuses, big wages being paid to people, and
00:14you know, your general public don't see an improvement in their services.
00:19So you're paying them however much they're paying out in dividends, it's big numbers
00:23isn't it?
00:24Yet, we can go down to the river today and point out wet wipes in trees, and we can see
00:29rubbish everywhere can't we, and you know, you see stories of dead fish and impacts on
00:37the marine environment.
00:38You know, we can put a drone up now can't we, and we can see clear as day where the
00:42pipes are and it's pumping sewage in, and you can pan round and there's people swimming
00:46in the sea.
00:47Here in Bristol it was found in April that the River Avon is in the top three waterways
00:51for the most amount of sewage spill in England.
00:54It's the only river in the south of England to feature in the worst ten.