THANK YOU FOR THE DAYS
If you catch one, it could be a record-breaker. Only it can’t be, as it’s non-native. It’s made complex.
National Catfish Month (August) place me in mind of a statement by a dad I overheard at the school gateways. He maintains fish and says the shops he goes to have actually recently been swamped with baby catfish. Catfish Truly? In UK waters?
The catfish or wels ( Silurus glanis is the UK’s largest freshwater fish, getting to weights of unofficially over 100 pound in British waters. Aggressive scavengers, they can eat baits in addition to tiny pets and birds, and live up to 90 years. In the warmer waters of the European mainland, they expand a lot, a lot bigger– approximately 674 lb, according to the Canal & & River Depend on.
In the UK, the catfish is officially a ‘non-native fish’, in addition to lawn carp, pumpkinseed, zander, topmouth gudgeon and bitterling. Technically, if you caught one outside of the few permitted catfish fisheries and afterwards placed it back, you can be provided for launching a ‘non-native fish’ into the wild, which is an offense under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981 However as Rob Hughes creates in Angling Times , there’s a concern with uniformity: ‘Catfish aren’t admitted several stillwaters, disregarded in some (usually as it’s “also …