South Lancashire Fisheries Advisory Committee 30th June, 1976.

This is the report from the South Lancashire Fisheries Advisory Committee meeting, which was held on the 30th June, 1976. The report contains sections on Mitton Fishery, fisheries activities, and the pollution of Trawden Water and Colne Water due to a spillage of sulphuric acid into Colne Water on 15th June, 1975. The section on fisheries activities includes Langcliffe Hatchery; fish monitoring stations; re-stocking by North West Water Authority; investigations into stocked brown trout and fish mortalities. The Fisheries Advisory Committee was part of the Regional Water Authorities, in this case the North West Water Authority. This preceded the Environment Agency which came into existence in 1996.