PFK Fishnews: Scientists cull 100,000 fish from Surrey pond

[AquaticQuotient.com]

More...

* This thread is an item from Practical Fishkeeping Magazine website's Fish News RSS feed, brought to you by courtesy of AQ's RSS Feed Poster Robot. *

[bryan]

The comment left by the reader was a good point. Nuke the whole place without saving some of the population?

[budak]

in the US, they did a similar thing with ponds found to harbour Asian snakeheads. Unfortunately, mechanical methods of control have too much margin for error and the risk of the aliens getting into adjacent waterways and wrecking havoc on the rest of the country's biodiversity is too high.