Council to kill all fish in lake to stop people angling

Bristol City Council is to stop people from fishing at St George's Park's lake - by killing all the fish.

The plans will see hundreds of carp, roach and bream fish destroyed with a dose of aesthetic in early 2016.

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A spokesperson for Bristol City Council told the Bristol Post: "The Neighbourhood Partnership and the Friends of St George Park group have been concerned for some years that fishing at the lake has been causing harm to wildlife.

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"Since 2012, Swan Rescue has been called seventeen times to rescue a swan that has been injured.

The spokesperson added: "The Friends group is also concerned that the fish stock levels in the lake are very high and that this, combined with the impact fishing bait has on the lake ecology, means the water quality has been very poor."

But Maggie Waldon, from the Friends of St George Park Group, told the BBC that the group does not support the killing of the fish.

"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."

Rob Acton-Campbell, chairman of the St George Neighbourhood Partnership, said it "would be more expensive to try and move them".

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