Rubbish including hundreds of bottles and tins, traffic cones and clothing fished out of River Ness in clean-up by Inverness Angling Club
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A haul including 34 traffic cones, three tyres, a road sign, hundreds of bottles and tins and various items of clothing have been fished out of the River Ness in a clean-up operation by anglers.
Members of Inverness Angling Club, including secretary James Emery, have been pulling waste out of the river as it runs alongside Island Bank Road.
“It was quite an eclectic mix,” Mr Emery said following the latest clean-up.
“You would be amazed what gets thrown in the river.”
The haul included carpentry tools and a handbag.
The clean-up work has been partly driven by a survey commissioned by the Ness District Salmon Fishery Board which looked at strengthening the river’s trout and salmon stocks.
The club is committed to keeping the river and riverside clean and tidy and helping to ensure that the potential of the nursery area is fully realised.
It also liaises with Highland Council whose cleansing department collects and disposes of the rubbish.
It is part of the annual river management plan, which the club submits and agrees with the council.
Mr Emery thought the provision of more litter bins might help reduce the amount of rubbish.
But he also appealed to the public not to treat the river as a dumping ground.
“I would ask people to dispose of their rubbish properly,” he said.
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Other club members taking part in the clean-up included Tony Quinn, Chris Bruce, David Dyce, John Sutherland and Steve Watt.
