Graylings are protected fish and they are also in no kill practice throughout the department. That is to say, the practice of releasing any fish caught in the water, moreover with barbless hooks to avoid hurting it. It is not possible to catch more than two per day. As for getting it out of the water, it must be barely a few seconds and still wet hands to enter it briefly.
The president of the Approved Association for Fishing and Protection of the Aquatic Environment of Isle sur la Sorgue, Michel Durand, on discovering this Facebook post, immediately posted a reaction on the association’s Facebook: We were all young but I think _it’s a lack of awareness_. We are in a critical period in terms of water quality, water level, heat, drought, lack of oxygen. So the fish is in conditions that are already quite difficult, if in addition we have fun taking photos that last x minutes, even if the fish is kept in a landing net in the water, to bring together four fish I guess They didn’t take all four at the same time so that’s a really bad example.
I don’t see fly fishing like that, you can be with a friend, but being four after that becomes a fair, it becomes a safari – Michel Durand, president of the AAPPMA of Isle-sur-la- Sorgue
In addition there is a photo we see a plate with a fork where they put a fish on it while it is forbidden to keep it, okay, so we can’t eat it. All these elements give _a bad image for the younger generations in addition with a protected species_.
The chance of survival for a fish that has been stressed is very slim. There have been Canadian and English studies. Canadians, it’s three seconds. Fish in the water, a second above if we want to take a picture, and hop we put it back in the water. »
What also annoyed Michel Durand is that one of the sinners and author of the Facebook post is none other than one of the officials of the Ardèche Fishing Federation.