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FISH KILLS IN LAKES, STREAMS AND RIVERS

Aquatonics carry out investigations of fish kills in streams, rivers and lakes. We can provide Expert Witness inputs on factors responsible for the fish kills. Often more than a single factor is responsible, for example poor water quality combined with high summer temperatures and low dissolved oxygen. We have been involved in a variety of legal cases in the UK, including fish kills downstream of a trout farm, fish kills due to industrial discharges, run-off after fires, diesel spills and a fish kill attributed to herbicide use.

Professor Anne Smith (Anne Brown) is a Director of Aquatonics Ltd and is an internationally respected fish physiologist, with particular interest in the impacts of pollutants and natural stressors on fish. Dr Phil Smith specialises in the impacts of water pollution incidents on invertebrates.

If you are in the UK and require free advice on a particular fish kill please phone us on 01363 776456 or 07971 258594 (mobile). It is important to act quickly in order to gather relevant evidence.

TYPES OF INVESTIGATION FOLLOWING A FISH KILL

Site Investigations, including drainage from industrial premises

Surveys of freshwater invertebrates, including BMWP and species level identifications

Electro-fishing studies of fish populations

Chemical analysis of water quality

Chemical analysis of sediments

Post-mortems of fish (with other specialists)

Literature reviews of specific toxic compounds