Armoured Plec Found In Leicestershire Canal!

[Attilauk]

http/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...estershire.html

it seems a 14 year old lad has hooked a 10" long Hypostomus plecostomus when fishing in the Grand Union Canal in Leicestershire, UK

i thought it would never have survived in our waters long enough to be caught...

 

[Amunet]

Well it wasn't exactly caught, the boy found it dead, so it didn't survive.
Shame on whoever released it though.

 

[HalcyonDays]

What were the water stats?

 

[loraxchick]

What were the water stats?

lol

 

[Attilauk]

Well it wasn't exactly caught, the boy found it dead, so it didn't survive.
Shame on whoever released it though.

i must remember to read links properly before i post em up

 

[england]

Yes i recon someone thought it would be a good idea to dump it, but obviously it's too cold and died, maybe within hour's of being dumped....

 

[Littlemonkey]

It makes you wonder what other fish are being dumped. We already have non native's causing problems.

 

[Loony Fish]

When I was scuba diving in lake Michigan with my dad on vacation I found a ton of saltwater round gobies and I heard someone caught a pacu that same day in the same lake.

 

[Athena]

Then again, it could have died in someone's tank and they gave it a "burial at sea" - or should I say "canal" LOL - would have been a bit too big to flush down the loo and they may have been too sad to throw it out in the trash...

...you just never know!

Athena

 

[Honeythorn]

The park near me has a small lake, which is used as a stock pool for small carp.People often feed the fish, and I did notice a pair of goldfish in there with all the rest gobbling the bread.

 

[cavy]

Ir says in the artical it was found next to the canal not init, sounds like it possibly died and was just dumped there, or someone was going to relese it into the canel but didnt and it looks more than 10 inches in that pic(I know pics can be deciving but it look huge!)