Carping on about the pond (From Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard)

Carping on about the pond

4:16pm Saturday 5th July 2008

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DOZENS of carp have been added to a lake behind a Cotswold pub in order to destroy the green weed that has spread over it.

Robert Jenkins, owner of The Inn at Fossebridge, put 40 fish in the lake as the latest in a series of green' solutions to overcome problems as they arise at the 300-year-old inn.

The carp will eat the weed and clear the lake in a matter of weeks.

Mr Jenkins said: "It is a beautiful lake, but the surface is covered in weed; to dig out and start again would be £20,000 and anyway there would be no guarantee of success.

"The staple diet of the carp we have purchased is weeds. They are a specific type and after advice we purchased 40 and we believing they are eating away to the stomach's delight and we should have a much better view of what's in there when their job is done."

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