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NottmDon
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I recently took a helluva lot of flack on a forum merely because I stated that Barbel are a river fish and should be left in rivers: not put into a commercial because some lazy sod who calls himself an angler cant be arsed to get off his fat behind and attempt to catch the fish in its natural surroundings and environment. Scientific evidence that was supplied to back up my claim did not one jot of good. I haven't been back to the site in question since. Its an old chesnut I know but I truly beleive barbel should not be put into lakes because as one idiot put it "they are a commodity and we want to catch them in the comfort of a commercial"! Thats the preamble over with! So this weekend I went for some supplies for my pond at World of Water and guess what? barbel in tanks are now for sale to be put into your ornamental fish ponds! Now imagine if it were a dog or a cat for sale and it was placed in a budgie cage, yup there'd be hell to pay! So why are they allowed to do this to a river fish that does not breed when confined to stillwaters? Are all our fish now just commodities?Is angling just about catching a species we want to in comfortable surroundings and bugger the fish and its welfare? What next Great Whites in the public swimming pools? No doubt some muppit would fish for them!