Benson's Death - Murder or Suicide?

[Moldy Dreads]

Benson The Giant Carp Dies


Benson the carp was found floating in Bluebell Lakes near Peterborough, England. Benson was famous as England's biggest fish and had been caught at least 60 times. Fishermen came from many countries to try to catch this fish and have their picture taken with it. Estimated to be about 25 years old, Benson the carp was stocked into Bluebell Lakes when it was about ten years old and weighing about 22 pounds. It weighed 60 pounds at one point when caught by a visiting fisherman. A blemish on one of his fins that looked like a cigarette burn gave Benson his name.
Tiger nuts which are fatal to carp when raw were found on the shore of the lake. There is suspicion that Benson was intentionally poisoned. Carp can live over 60 years so Benson was really middle aged.

 

[ddrew]

That's messed up if someone did that on purpose.
Here in the US in my state it's illegal to put carp back in the lake if you catch them. so everyone just kills them and leaves them on the banks or in trashcans, hardly anyone outside of the vietnamese here eat them.
But law or not, I can't bring myself to kill them, so I slip them quietly back into the water when I catch them.

 

[THC123]

that is a strange law indeed

 

[Moldy Dreads]

That's messed up if someone did that on purpose.

Maybe he was tired of getting tricked and hooked through the lip over and over and over lol

 

[BurmeseDragon]

Wild

 

[Moldy Dreads]

that is a strange law indeed

Carp are a plague in some parts. They were introduced and destroy some of the native wildlife and plants.

"We thought it was a big trout or something," says Briney. "We didn't know what we had."

Their river was filling up with slimy, ugly, Asian carp: A voracious invader from the Far East that's eating its way through America's waterways, pushing out the native fish, and wreaking havoc.

People hold tournaments and catch thousands in one day, they are varmint, but people are discovering that they are an Asian cultural food, and are also now selling them to Asian markets and stuff. Sports fishermen shoot them from boats with crossbows:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwMSy7xK218

 

[buddah]

may he was too fat!!! Too much Bolies are not good for a carp

 

[ddrew]

Carp are a plague in some parts. They were introduced and destroy some of the native wildlife and plants.




People hold tournaments and catch thousands in one day, they are varmint, but people are discovering that they are an Asian cultural food, and are also now selling them to Asian markets and stuff. Sports fishermen shoot them from boats with crossbows:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwMSy7xK218

Yep, that's how they look at them here, as a plague, plus I guess they interfere with the game fish, northerns, muskies, walleye, etc...
And in my state the lakes are HUGE business, they even talk about them on our license plates, so anything that mess's with the money train that the lakes are here does not get looked upon favorably.
We can fish for them with bait, snag them with giant weighted treble hooks(illegal for any other use) shoot them with bows, throw spears at them(that's fun) net them, whatever, as long as the bottom line is a dead carp, then my states ok with it.

 

[Verite]

Say it isnt so

 

[killa-bud]

maybe the fact that it was caught over 60 times had somthing to do with it dieing ?

 

[Verite]

Nuisance fish are culled by law the same way weeds are. Let them be and they will kill off everything else. No ones going to fish a waterway thats 100% carp. Game conservation is much needed and little understood. I may not like the idea of culling a species thats overpopulated and threatening 100's of other species in the process but I understand its necessity.

 

[xOOx]

didn't u just love the ufo episode the best? poor benson ..

xoox

 

[Stoner4Life]

That's messed up if someone did that on purpose.
Here in the US in my state it's illegal to put carp back in the lake if you catch them. so everyone just kills them and leaves them on the banks or in trashcans, hardly anyone outside of the vietnamese here eat them.
But law or not, I can't bring myself to kill them, so I slip them quietly back into the water when I catch them.

that is a strange law indeed

Not so strange considering that carp were introduced here in the states, not a native species they over inhabit the lakes and rivers eco system by growing to enormous sizes (like Benson), we usually tend to remove invading species to restore natures balance.......

 

[buddymate]

Benson was caught between 60-100 times,his death was even reported on the BBC news The owner of Bluebell lakes actually said Benson liked being caught as he/she liked having their photograph taken

 

[daddy fingaz]

Benson was a legend RIP!

 

[med_breeder]

In the world of the fish, Being caught and released must be like an alien abduction to them.

 

[Vash]

That last catch was just too much for that big boy. Age and stress caused him to have a cardiac arrest.

 

[ddrew]

That last catch was just too much for that big boy. Age and stress caused him to have a cardiac arrest.

That's my guess too, you factor the age and stress in with his morbid obesity, he was a swimming time bomb

 

[Amstel Light]

\ vietnamese here eat them.
\.

ya got give the vietnamese props for not wasting or taking advantage of mother earth...where im from they have banana fish that are caught while trolling for shrimp...long... thin ...silver and scaleless the viets dont throw them away they sun-dry them and eat it like jerky.....makes me shudder to think about it, but wtf do i know...sorry off topic

I think it was bensons time to go....or maybe he faked his own death so he could be left alone? AHHHHHHHH

 

[med_breeder]

That last catch was just too much for that big boy. Age and stress caused him to have a cardiac arrest.

You sure he wasn't hooked on Dipravan?