{"id":8928,"date":"2023-10-30T17:29:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T21:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=8928"},"modified":"2023-10-30T17:29:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T21:29:44","slug":"pond-stocked-catch-em-dont-keep-em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/30\/pond-stocked-catch-em-dont-keep-em\/","title":{"rendered":"Pond stocked: catch &#8217;em, don&#8217;t keep &#8217;em"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kekionga Pond, alongside Decatur&#8217;s new Paws &amp; Play Dog Park, has a whole bunch of new fish swimming around in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But if you catch one (or four or five or even 20) you are asked to toss it back so it can grow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pond, a popular fishing place, is likely to become even more popular now that the city has stocked it with 100 bass, 500 blue gill, and 500 crappies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the pond is said to still have a substantial quantity of catfish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F6ABEC7EF43144DA8028EEE7C8791869.jpg?resize=576%2C277\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F6ABEC7EF43144DA8028EEE7C8791869.jpg?w=576&amp;ssl=1 576w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/F6ABEC7EF43144DA8028EEE7C8791869.jpg?resize=300%2C144&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The new ones are the ones to toss back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re asking everyone to do catch and release,\u201d Mayor Dan Rickord said at the latest city council meeting. \u201cThey&#8217;re mid-sized and they need time to grow. So we&#8217;re asking for catch and release through 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The stocking of the pond is part of the three-pronged Kekionga Project for which the city qualified for a $50,000 state Patronicity grant by raising $50,000 through donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com Kekionga Pond, alongside Decatur&#8217;s new Paws &amp; Play Dog Park, has a whole bunch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,15,21],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-featured","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}