Hi All,
There have been stories in our local press in Cambridge about the problem posed by some foreign labourers catching coarse fish to eat, especially carp. This perplexes me. I'd always assumed that coarse fish were called "coarse" because they were not good to eat, unlike trout or salmon. But that seems not to be true. In fact one cook-book I picked up to check (Floyd on France) had recipes for perch.
I can see that catching fish to take home from commercial lakes would be wrong, and is presumably against the rules of the venue, but what are the laws and the etiquette governing the removal of fish in our other lakes, rivers, and canals?
Cheers,
Tim.
There have been stories in our local press in Cambridge about the problem posed by some foreign labourers catching coarse fish to eat, especially carp. This perplexes me. I'd always assumed that coarse fish were called "coarse" because they were not good to eat, unlike trout or salmon. But that seems not to be true. In fact one cook-book I picked up to check (Floyd on France) had recipes for perch.
I can see that catching fish to take home from commercial lakes would be wrong, and is presumably against the rules of the venue, but what are the laws and the etiquette governing the removal of fish in our other lakes, rivers, and canals?
Cheers,
Tim.