From the archive: Anglers and river pollution, 16 June, 1950

A CAMPAIGN against river pollution, which has been waged by English anglers over the past two years, was yesterday extended to Scotland with the inauguration in Edinburgh of a Scottish branch of the Anglers Co-operative Association.

Members of many Scottish angling clubs and associations attended a lunch in the Caledonian Hotel at which Mr John Eastwood , OBE., KC the London Metropolitan Police Magistrate, founder and chairman of the association, appealed for more Scottish members to continue the fight. Mr P G Macdonald warned continuing offenders that court proceedings would be taken. “In England we are suffering far worse from river pollution,” said Mr Eastwood, “and it is not the first time that England has asked help from Scotland. Anglers are entitled to pure water.”

He said that, with modern scientific knowledge, 90 per cent of all the pollution could be stopped.