Saturday, February 21, 2015

Ocean waste hits home: Plastic-filled fish guts ruins Chilliwack man's catch

The chunks of plastic Jordan Butt found inside a steelhead trout he caught on the Vedder River.
Photograph by: Nic Procaylo , PNG

Ocean waste hits home: Plastic-filled fish guts ruins Chilliwack man's catch
 

By Nick Eagland, The Province February 19, 2015

A Chilliwack fisherman thought the steelhead he hooked last week on the Vedder River would make a fine supper bef
ore he cut it open to find its body stuffed with garbage.

Jordan Butt, 32, said he felt “disgusted” by what he found Feb. 13: Shards of blue, orange, black and white plastic, some the size of a loonie, perforating the fish’s stomach and shredding its anus.

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