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Bring Burbot Back
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Burbot, Lota lota, aka Eel Pout, Lawyer Fish,
Lingcod are a holarctic species native to the
cold fresh waters of the Nearctic and Palearctic
regions found between 40 and 70 degrees North
latitudes. Burbot are demersal fish found in
deep temperate lake bottoms and slow moving cold
river bottoms between 4 and 18 degrees C. You can
enjoy fishing near me with the Primarily found at
depths ranging from 1 to 700 m, these fish prefer
fresh waters but are also found in some brackish
water systems.
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Burbot are large fish known to grow to as much as
1.5 m in length and 34 kg in weight. These fish
are yellow, light tan, or brown with dark brown
or black patterning on the body, head and most
fins. The underbelly and pectoral fins are pale
to white. The first dorsal fin is short and is
followed by a long second dorsal fin at least 6
times the length of the first and joined to a
rounded caudal fin.
he burbot is the only member of the cod family
that lives in fresh water. For several months a
year burbot can be trapped under ice they need
cold temperatures to spawn but all that slime and
flabbiness provide excellent protection. The are
a very voracious predator.
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All About Burbot
Burbot are large fish known to grow to as much as
1.5 m in length and 34 kg in weight. These fish
are yellow, light tan, or brown with dark brown
or black patterning on the body, head and most
fins. The underbelly and pectoral fins are pale
to white. The first dorsal fin is short and is
followed by a long second dorsal fin at least 6
times the length of the first and joined to a
rounded caudal fin.
Maybe there will some Anglers who still remember
catching them ? The cause of the burbots
disappearance remained a bit of a mystery but
was a combination of pressures including the
disappearance of natural messy edges to rivers,
including pools, flooded areas and back channels.
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OLD WEST RIVER, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
A few questions from an angling point of view I
ask myself with the 50 year gap since its last UK
sighting is the burbot suitable for
reintroduction, especially since in that time the
non native zander has established throughout our
waterways as an alternate predator, did the
burbots demise enable the zander spread ? Should
Natural England start to reintroduce would lakes
/ fisheries stock them ? they could under strict
rules by the EA like Wels catfish, I would love
to catch them personally as they are a lure and
bait caught species that love a cold weather like
this arctic February day especially.
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I spent many a happy hour as a youngster fishing
the old west and the drains around it in the late
70s through early 80s remembering its unspoilt
wild stretches it does not surprise me this was
this the venue of the last sighting. The fish
has been successfully reintroduced into Belgium
and Germany, and there were several river valleys
in the East Anglian Fens with good floodplains
that could be ideal habitat. Unlike beavers, lynx
and sea eagles, they havent been gone for long
only about 50 years.
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