Wild Carp trust seeks landowners with pools suitable for rehoming carp

15 March 2024

Do you have a pool, or land where a pool could be built, that could rehome the UK’s most famous strain of wild carp?

Llyngwyn in mid-Wales, which houses one of the UK’s oldest strains of carp, is suffering from agricultural pollution. The Wild Carp Trust is doing everything it can to save the carp it contains and needs to find new homes for them.

Suitable waters should be at least an acre and contain no other strain of carp, koi or goldfish. This is to ensure the unique Llyngwyn strain remains intact, rather than hybridising with other carp. Ideally they will be self contained, too, perhaps an irrigation pond or spring-fed lake. (If a water has no inlet or outlet stream, or risk of being flooded by neighbouring streams or rivers, we do not have to kill carp for health checks.) We will still consider other waters, so please help if you can.

The Wild Carp Trust is seeking landowners, fishery owners, fish farmers, and angling clubs to provide waters that could be permanent or temporary homes for wild carp. Please contact us if you have such a pool, lake, moat, reservoir, or large garden pond.

Thank you.