Yellow Fish Campaign

the drain is just for rain! ... the drain is just for rain! ... the drain is just for rain!

Above: Sarah, the Project Officer, introduces Cherie Blair to the Yellow Fish project at the Labour Party Conference 2003

Above: Sarah (Project Officer) explains pollution risks to children from HEED

Yellow Fish 2004 was supported by

www.oceanarium.co.uk

6th July 2004: nine children and their mothers joined us from HEED - Home Educators of East Dorset - for a morning of drain stencilling in Coy Pond Road, followed by a picnic lunch in the gardens.  HEED educate their children at home rather than sending them to school:  www.he-ed.org.uk.

CBBC's Newsround Online has published a Yellow Fish article by India (10), a HEED home learner.  Read it at ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk

27th July: stencilling with the Bourne Valley Youth Centre, Northmere Road, Alderney; Yellow Fish will be incorporated into a special WET 'N' WILD environment day on the 27th.

The Yellow Fish experience - What's it all about?

So you're thinking of carrying out a Yellow Fish project in your area?  

We've written up some do's and dont's and published a risk assessment that you might find useful

Some oil pollution facts

• Storm water drains in the Bourne valley area lead direct to the Bourne stream - pouring oil, paint, solvents and other chemicals down these drains is the same as pouring them straight into the stream!

• Oil is poisonous to fish and wildlife and smothers plants;

• Oil is the cause of more than one quarter of all pollution incidents, with over 5,000 such incidents in the UK each year. Most commonly these are caused by diesel, central heating oil, waste oil and petrol;

• The oil from one car engine could form a film over a small lake;

• Just half a litre of oil can stop a small sewage treatment works from operating.