Lost fish to be brought back

A FISH not seen in British rivers since 1969 is set to be reintroduced.

The burbot, pictured, is the world’s only freshwater cod species and once thrived in eastern England. It is thought to have died out due to farm pollution.

The Norfolk Rivers Trust hopes to reintroduce the bottom-dwelling fish – which can be eaten – to the River Wissey and Great Ouse catchment in two to three years using European stocks. The trust’s Jonah Tosney said: ‘It’s a British species that has been here since the Ice Age, and it’s been lost within living memory.’