all of the invertebrates that live inside the riverbed. the flow of water then catches them into the net. this is the river nadder in wiltshire. there should be some mayfly there. oh, yes. yeah, look at that. david is a volunteer, taking samples of the smallest creatures to monitor the health of the river. how do you feel looking down at this tray and the life in it, as opposed to what you used to sample? a real tragedy. the freshwater shrimp, which even three or four years ago we would have been counting them in the hundreds, here i am, and i m struggling to find ten. recently they ve increased the number of farming inspectors. but until a couple of years ago, the probability of you as a farmer getting an inspection was about one in 200 years. so clearly, that is not a big incentive to clean your act up. we ve discovered that last year alone, there were 300 incidents of river contamination linked to livestock farms, including 20 major spills. yet, only six farms were prosecuted.
is spread or it rains hard, it can wash off into the rivers. we keep the riverbed to bring out all of the invertebrates that live inside the riverbed. the flow of water then catches them into the net. this is the river nadder in wiltshire. there should be some mayfly there. oh, yes. yeah, look at that. david is a volunteer, taking samples of the smallest creatures to monitor the health of the river. how do you feel looking down at this tray and the life in it, as opposed to what you used to sample? a real tragedy. the freshwater shrimp, which even three or four years ago we would have been counting them in the hundreds, here i am, and i m struggling to find ten. recently they ve increased the number of farming inspectors. but until a couple of years ago, the probability of you as a farmer getting an inspection was about one in 200 years. so clearly, that is not a big incentive to clean your act up.
david is a volunteer, taking samples of the smallest creatures to monitor the health of the river. how do you feel looking down at this tray and the life in it, as opposed to what you used to sample? a real tragedy. the freshwater shrimp, which even three or four years ago we would have been counting them in the hundreds, here i am, and i m struggling to find ten. recently they ve increased the number of farming inspectors. but until a couple of years ago, the probability of you as a farmer getting an inspection was about one in 200 years. so clearly, that is not a big incentive to clean your act up. we ve discovered that last year alone, there were 300 incidents of river contamination linked to livestock farms, including 20 major spills. yet, only six farms were prosecuted. defra says it has now stepped up farm inspections, carrying out more than 3,000 this year compared to around 700 in the whole of 2021.