Fish in Bristol lake to be killed to deter angling

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-35134740

Fish in Bristol lake to be killed to deter angling

All the fish in a lake in Bristol are to be removed and destroyed in a bid to discourage fishing.

Last year, the local Neighbourhood Partnership voted to ban fishing at St George's Park lake to stop wildlife being harmed by fishing line and hooks.
It has now approved an option proposed by Bristol City Council to destroy the fish rather than relocate them.
But Maggie Waldon, from the Friends of St George Park Group, said it did not support "outright killing of the fish".

The old boating lake, according to Ms Waldon, was stocked with fish about 20 years ago and has been used as a fishing lake for many years.
"It's become very run down and there are far too many fish in there to support any kind of ecosystem," she admitted.
"We would really like to reduce the number of fish but we don't support the outright killing of the fish.

"There are some fish that are very unwell in which case that's fair enough but our policy would be to relocate them and find them new homes."

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[laklak]

give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and you'll end up pouring all sorts of toxic shit into the lake.

[JimC]

...here are some fish that are very unwell...

How very twee...

[mistermack]

They would have a job eliminating all of the fish. Some are so small that no net could catch them.

But if they got rid of all the bigger ones, the angler's would soon get fed up of not catching anything.

I suppose eventually, the fish would die out, if you removed all of the bigger ones once a year.
They need to get to a certain size to spawn. Maybe the tiny species would proliferate, without the bigger predatory fish.

You wouldn't get any of the more exotic fishing species of birds if you did remove the fish though.
Kingfishers maybe, as they like the tiny fish. But Cormorants or Divers wouldn't have anything to eat.