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Is this an ethical and sustainable stocking policy?
The 5 hour match record according to last weeks Angling Times is 520lb. If we are worried about anything showing us in a bad light with the general public we should be worrying about this.
As a fishkeeper (koi carp) I am well aware that this level of biomass in an enclosed water, the fish will literally be swimming in an ammonia soup leaving them vulnerable to all sorts of diseases. Iimo it's only a matter of time before something appears which will make the spring viremia of carp virus look like the common cold.
In a political and ecological climate where battery chickens are frowned on, veal crates are banned, the problems of disease associated with intensive pig farming is well documented and intensive farming in general is frowned on we should be discouraging this sort of behaviour not applauding it.
I believe that if fishery owners will not take it on themselves to stop this ever increasing arms war in search of the biggest match weights in the quest for a bigger slice of a saturated market and adopt a maximum stocking density, then the much vaunted ACA should look into another method of measuring angling performance and prowess rather than simply relying on weight alone.
Its only a matter of time before the general public gets wind of what some sections of the angling community are doing in the name of sport and If the angling community doesn't accept this as a problem and do something about it then rest assured they will stop it for us.
Discuss.
The 5 hour match record according to last weeks Angling Times is 520lb. If we are worried about anything showing us in a bad light with the general public we should be worrying about this.
As a fishkeeper (koi carp) I am well aware that this level of biomass in an enclosed water, the fish will literally be swimming in an ammonia soup leaving them vulnerable to all sorts of diseases. Iimo it's only a matter of time before something appears which will make the spring viremia of carp virus look like the common cold.
In a political and ecological climate where battery chickens are frowned on, veal crates are banned, the problems of disease associated with intensive pig farming is well documented and intensive farming in general is frowned on we should be discouraging this sort of behaviour not applauding it.
I believe that if fishery owners will not take it on themselves to stop this ever increasing arms war in search of the biggest match weights in the quest for a bigger slice of a saturated market and adopt a maximum stocking density, then the much vaunted ACA should look into another method of measuring angling performance and prowess rather than simply relying on weight alone.
Its only a matter of time before the general public gets wind of what some sections of the angling community are doing in the name of sport and If the angling community doesn't accept this as a problem and do something about it then rest assured they will stop it for us.
Discuss.
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