imagine you are a local council and you have a stretch of canal,
and every so often you receive reports of illegal fishing, well
that was the problem facing Swindon Borough Council, a council spokesman
said it had received complaints about poaching, but did not have
the resources to patrol the Wiltshire and Berkshire Canal in Swindon,
"We've had several complaints about illegal fishing even though
there have been signs put up there for several years", the Kingshill to
Rushley Platt section of the Wiltshire and Berkshire Canal is owned by the
borough council, so how do you stop the illegal fishermen? easy,
remove the fish!
more than 1,098kg (2,421lb) of fish have been removed, the contractors
took 3 days to remove bream, carp, perch, roach and rudd from a half-mile
stretch near Kingshill, the fish will be used to re-stock other lakes in the
county, a spokesman for the authority said removing fish from the entire
length of the canal was the best way of tackling the problem of poaching, but I
cannot help thinking that with no fish in summer time to eat them, the mosquito
population will sky rocket, but you know your local council knows best!
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