| Fishers worried mouse plague poison bromadiolone could kill native fish | |
| By Anton Nilsson |
Source: news |
6/1/2021 |
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Fish have been feasting on the copious amounts of mice swarming NSW, raising fears a new rodent poison could harm native wildlife as well.
Recreational anglers have discovered first-hand just how popular the mice are as snacks for the fish.
“It’s well-known native fish eat rats and mice, and we’re aware of reports of native fish having mice in their stomachs in parts of the Murray-Darling Basin,” OzFish project manager Braeden Lampard said.
A picture posted to Twitter by ABC reporter Lucy Thackray highlighted the phenomenon in revolting fashion. It shows several partly decomposed mice that were discovered inside a Murray cod. |
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The fish consider the mice so tasty that some anglers have special lures resembling rodents that they bring out during mouse plagues, Mr Lampard said.
But wildlife advocates worry that appetite for mice could put the fish in danger if the state government succeeds in having a new, super strong poison approved for use against the mice.
NSW Agriculture Minister Adam Marshall has advocated for the federal government to allow the use of bromadiolone to kill mice, a poison he has compared to “napalm”. |
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