But it’s a crime to move sick fish into a healthy pond

Photos by Gary Meyer
Story by Patric Hedlund

About a dozen well-meaning residents came to Frazier Mountain Park on Sunday, Sept. 4 over Labor Day weekend. They were equipped with nets, buckets, even a plastic wading pool. Fish had been observed “trying to throw themselves up on shore,” said Frazier Park resident David Reiner.

A call to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (DFW) by Lake of the Woods’ June Ramsay sparked a rumor that residents were being “threatened” by a DFW warden with a $1,500 fine for each fish that was illegally removed from the pond. A call to DFW Lieutenant Andrew Halverson by The Mountain Enterprise yielded an explanation that taking fish that have been stressed, such as these, from this pond and placing them…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Residents tried to rescue dying fish from the pond in Frazier Mountain Park Sunday, Sept. 4.

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