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Rob Brownfield
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I have heard about this through a friend living in NZ. I think a few of u may be away of the bow hunting that is practiced by the "water authorites" to remove Koi from the lakes, but the poison thing is horrendous. A water near me in Scotland was posioned in 1976 to remove the pike. Even to this day the water is devoid of much life. There are no ducks, no fish and very few invertebrates.
What really get to me though, is the fact that they want to remove non native coarse fish...which, I could possibly understand IF they were causing a problem, but they are going to leave the Brown and Rainbow Trout that were also stocked in the 1800's. The Brown trout originally came from a batch of fry supplied from Loch Leven in Fife and did remarkably well in the mountain stream and rivers.
But does it make sense that Trout are ok but coarse fish are not? Yet again the Game angler wins. Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!
Australia also hase a kill carp policy, although I believe in Melbourne they have managed to overturn this stupid rule.
Surely they is something we can do hear in the UK to help out?..Any suggestions?
What really get to me though, is the fact that they want to remove non native coarse fish...which, I could possibly understand IF they were causing a problem, but they are going to leave the Brown and Rainbow Trout that were also stocked in the 1800's. The Brown trout originally came from a batch of fry supplied from Loch Leven in Fife and did remarkably well in the mountain stream and rivers.
But does it make sense that Trout are ok but coarse fish are not? Yet again the Game angler wins. Grrrrrrrrrrr!!!
Australia also hase a kill carp policy, although I believe in Melbourne they have managed to overturn this stupid rule.
Surely they is something we can do hear in the UK to help out?..Any suggestions?