Steven Smith from Milngavie believes otters attacked his garden pond and fish he collected over 40 years.
A fish enthusiast from East Dunbartonshire has described the death of his prized Japanese koi carp collection as a "massacre".
"As I stepped over the wall I noticed there were a couple to the left, more to the right, and when I looked in the pond there was no movement at all.""I took a walk around the pond and almost every fish that I had was lying there headless, fins ripped off them, faces ripped off them," he said. "It was just a massacre as far as I was concerned."But after posting his discovery on social media, friends said it could have been otters or mink.
Otters are protected under law and the local authority advise a number of measures to help protect koi ponds from predation by the species like electric and mesh fencing. “If you leave a table out with sandwiches and nice cakes on it, and come back, they are not going to be there - and anyone who has these ponds has got to protect them.”
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