Stealing Fish.

[Major Starbold]

Stealing fish from private lakes, ponds, rivers is a crime, theft.

In Poland it is a done thing to take fish.

Poles and gypsies are notorious for doing it using illegal methods.

I have fished in many places where there has been fish theft and witnessed it at one of the most famous fisheries in the country, near Coventry.

Fish cost quite a bit of money which is a investment for the owner or diversifying farmer.

Barred: The Polish anglers who don¿t let any get away | Mail Online

Barred: The Polish anglers who don’t let any get away

15th August 2009

Eastern Europeans have been banned from fishing at a lake – after the site owner claimed they were stealing his stock.

Farmer Billy Evans charges anglers £7 a day at his four-acre lake, which is stocked with thousands of pounds worth of carp, tench, roach and bream.
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Anglers are permitted to keep two of the fish they catch per day from open waters – but
many private fisheries, such as Mr Evans’s, bar them from taking any.

Mr Evans, 71, of Field Farm Fisheries in Launton, Oxfordshire, said that there are normally 30,000 fish in his lake but that hundreds have been stolen by eastern European anglers.

A month ago he erected a large hand-made sign reading: ‘No Polish or Eastern Europe fishers allowed.’ Since then he claims that he has not caught anybody stealing his stock.

Read more: Barred: The Polish anglers who don¿t let any get away | Mail Online

[mimseycal]

How original ...

[Earl]

If they're stealing his fish he has a right to ban anyone he likes. It's pretty common knowledge that it's the Poles doing it.

[mimseycal]

It was pretty common knowledge that the earth was flat, Jews used the blood of Christian babies and Jesus walked on water ...

[Earl]

No, you're wrong. They were common misconceptions.

The fact that the Poles are taking fish from British waterways is undeniable. It's common practice in Poland and they believe if is totally acceptable here.

They've tried educating them, but it's difficult to change people's customs overnight.

[mimseycal]

No, you're wrong. They were common misconceptions.

The fact that the Poles are taking fish from British waterways is undeniable. It's common practice in Poland and they believe if is totally acceptable here.

They've tried educating them, but it's difficult to change people's customs overnight.

Generalisations based on misconceptions. Banning a thief is one thing, banning a whole people because of a belief that they are all thieves is another.

[Earl]

It's not a belief that they're all thieves, it's prudent measures against a culture who think it is perfectly acceptable to take fish from British waterways.

[mimseycal]

It's not a belief that they're all thieves, it's prudent measures against a culture who think it is perfectly acceptable to take fish from British waterways.

The difference being?

[Earl]

The difference being it's not a misconception.

[mimseycal]

Call a rose by any other name and it would still have thorns.