No more feeding bread to fish at Pymatuning
Friday, July 04, 2008
The Associated Press
LINESVILLE, Pa. -- The carp at Pymatuning State Park are going low-carb.
The Linesville Spillway has long been famous as the place where ducks walk on fish because the fish throng so thick for bread tossed by visitors. But starting Jan. 1, bread, doughnuts and the like are toast. Only commercial fish food will be allowed.
Officials want the area, which recently went through $3 million in upgrades, to look nicer. Careless visitors often leave bread wrappers and other litter.
Officials have been turning a blind eye to the practice anyway because a state park system rule prohibits feeding wildlife.
Park manager Pete Houghton says he wants to preserve the tradition. A concession stand is expected to sell commercial fish food, but Houghton says any commercial fish food will do.
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First published on July 4, 2008 at 12:53 pm
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1 comment:
Maybe the officials are worried that because the fish are underwater most of the time, all their fat will be saturated fat. Hey, if you feed a fish a lot of bread, and then catch him and eat him, would you be taking in a lot of carpo-hydrates? I'm just saying . .
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