Some Australians Want Trout Declared Alien Species

Is it a carefully considered plan to restore ecological balance, or the brainchild of over-zealous bureaucrats with too much time on their hands? “The popular game fish has been declared an alien species and put on a hit-list for eradication in a move that has outraged anglers. Trout would be culled from major Victorian rivers such as the Murray, Goulburn and Yarra

, despite the Brumby Government pouring about 400,000 trout into our waterways each year.” Peter Rolfe notes the apparent shift in policy in Australia’s Herald Sun

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