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Pastimes : I Love to Fish
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From: Snowshoe9/4/2015 8:46:40 PM
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Lampreys swimming back up English rivers for first time since 1800s -
Species of fish that were said to have claimed the life of King Henry I stage resurgence in English rivers
telegraph.co.uk

Lampreys, the fish said to have been responsible for the death of King Henry I, are staging a resurgence in English rivers where they have not been seen since the 1800s.
The snake-like creatures, long regarded as a royal delicacy, were virtually wiped out in English rivers as a result of pollution and the construction of weirs and other obstacles that prevented them reaching their spawning grounds upstream.

The Environment Agency said improving water quality and efforts to reduce such obstacles meant lampreys that had been confined to estuaries were now returning to the upper reaches of the rivers Ouse, Trent and Derwent.

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Lampreys are the world’s oldest living vertebrates, having been in existence some 200 million years before the dinosaurs. Sea lampreys, the biggest of the lamprey species in the UK, can grow up to a metre in length.

Fished for hundreds of years in the UK, the lampreys are particularly renowned as a luxury food. King Henry I was said to have died after gorging on a surfeit of lampreys while King John is supposed to have fined the City of Gloucester the equivalent of £250,000 for failing to deliver his Christmas lamprey pie.
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