Government sets new standards for re-stocking trout in UK waters: Sterile fish only says Environment Agency

摘要

The United Kingdom's Environment Agency (EA) is in the process of i banning the century-old practice of re-stocking failing wild brown-trout populations with hatchery-produced fish capable of breeding among themselves and their non-hatchery compatriots.The agency has issued a statement that it wants to see steps being taken as quickly as possible to end the practice, and it intends to institute a complete halt in 2015.