So, rainbow trout have been released into Bewl Water and the keeper is worried the smaller ones will die?

Uhhhh, reality check time - isn't that what he bred them for?

But, of course, they will now have a while to swim around as nature intended before dying a natural, fishy sort of death.

They are bred to let fisherfolk stick a hook in them before they die or to maybe be released by said fisherfolk with a hole which can become infected with fungus.

A rainbow trout can live for up to six years. I hope the ones who survive their release can live a happy, free and unthreatened six years. Fishing is a blood sport.

-Elizabeth Wakefield, Hove