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Through the eyes of a fry. Part II

Posted by JR on 1/31/2009, 1:51 pm, in reply to "Through the eyes of a fry."
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A day comes when instead of being netted, handled and returned to home waters, the young koi is isolated in a bright enclosure as shadows move over head. Our koi is selected and soon finds itself in the restricted environment of a plastic bag. The promising female has been selected at auction for further individual attention. Our koi might find itself owned by an intermediary grower/breeder who will return the fish to his indoor facility for winter care. That following spring the koi will be returned to a mud pond that is much less crowded than the conditions the fish has experienced to date. This is a summer of change for the two year old koi. Our koi has turned out to be an exceptional example of it’s breed. And as such it receives the very best of care. Instead of being one in a quarter of a million fry, it is now one of only two hundred koi and is slowing seeing pond mates thinned . By age three the fish is housed with only 40 others. She has become large and robust and shows all the signs of sexual maturity coming on. But our koi is blessed and has seen the routine of three summers in the mud pond come and go. It is still a primitive creature that flees at the sign of human presence. Yet it is drawn to the sound of man as he represents food. The domesticated carp lives in an in-between world- drawn to man and all the time trying to escaping it’s capture. Yet one can see that this fish ‘knows the routine’ in the way it protests strongly and then , in a moment, surrenders to the clever and seemly all knowing net. After all, this is a routine that the fish has experienced since it was a fry. This koi might be transferred yet again to another, and even another breeder, before it’s ‘final’ sale. In the final sale the fish might have a serious show career, meaningless to the fish of course, but ironically, the reason for the pampered existence it has know all it’s life. And also ironical, the fish will experience still more survival challenges now as it is shipped around the world, placed in a pond with conditions completely foreign to its experience and possibly out of the range of it’s adaptability.She will likely spend some time at a dealers shop and be treated for parasites, possible infection and general stress. Then she will be sold. There the fish will continue on and live out the rest of her days in a Western pond. Hopefully it will be a long and comfortable life for this one-in-a- million fry. - JR

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Responses: Re: Through the eyes of a fry. Part II - arthur joe 1/31/2009, 3:01 pm Re: Through the eyes of a fry. Part II - JR 1/31/2009, 5:20 pm Re: Through the eyes of a fry. Part II - arthur joe 1/31/2009, 5:41 pm « Back to thread

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