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
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