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Evening Standard
Neil Pooran

Salmon and other species killed after chemical spills into River Spey tributary

Caustic soda may have entered a tributary of the River Spey (Spey Fishery Board/PA) -

A pollution incident has killed a significant number of fish and other wildlife including eels and birds on a tributary of the River Spey in Moray.

A chemical, thought to be caustic soda, is understood to have entered the water and “destroyed” a number of species at the Knockando burn in recent days.

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