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THE Salmon and Freshwater Fisheries Act, 1923, will come into operation on January 1 next, replacing the many Acts, beginning with that of 1861, which have been framed to regulate the fisheries of our inland waters. The first of the series contained a clause relating to the pollution of rivers, and this clause has up to now been practically the only statutory control we have had. It was reinforced by the River Pollution Prevention Acts, and this legislation was sufficient to prevent sewage being poured in an untreated state into rivers, but not into estuaries, and it proved ineffective in preventing poisonous effluents from industrial concerns contaminating both.
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MEEK, A. River Pollution. Nature 112, 722–723 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112722b0
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