Up The Creek

• Where have all the whitebait gone?

• Whitebait are baby fish. They come from the sea and swim up the river to grow up.

• Let’s look up the river.

The river might be polluted (dirty).

• The man is washing his car and the dirty water is going into the river.

• Is this why there are no whitebait?

• The man should wash his car on the grass. This will keep our river clean.

• Look at the drain, will whitebait be able to swim up this?

• When whitebait get to the top of the river they grow up and they lay eggs.

We do a test. This water is not very

clean.

• The river looks very dirty here.

• The cows are eating all the plants in the river.

• Rivers need plants to keep the water clean and give the fish somewhere to hide from the sun.

• The farmer should keep the cows out of the water.

• This would be a good place for whitebait if there were no cows here.

• We get to the end of the river.

• There are so many fish, birds and insects here.

• The water is really clean.

• We look for fish.If all the river

was this clean there

would be lots of whitebait

for everyone.