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There was enough fishing on Lake Geneva in the early Middle Ages to require regulation. In 1312 France's King Philip IV decreed that all nets used to take fish on the lake had to have a minimum mesh size of 25.5 mm (1 inch), the width of a silver tornesel coin. There was also a size minimum for caught fish.
The Convention on Fishing and Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas is an agreement that was designed to solve through international cooperation the problems involved in the conservation of living resources of the high seas, considering that because of the development of modern technology some of these resources are in danger of being overexploited.
The identity of the fera is disputed. In 1950, Emile Dottrens described Coregonus fera as native to both Lake Geneva and Lake Constance. The coregonines from Lake Constance were named Sandfelchen. In 1997, Maurice Kottelat made a revision and used the name Coregonus fera for the Geneva fera and Coregonus arenicolus for the Sandfelchen.
Fera is a local name for several fish species of the genus Coregonus from Switzerland, and France, in particular Savoy.The true fera referred to the species Coregonus fera, which was endemic to Lake Geneva, but is now extinct.
Lake Geneva [note 1] is a deep lake on the north side of the Alps, ... By the 1980s, intense environmental pollution (eutrophication) had almost wiped out all the fish.
The Pea River begins near Midway, in Bullock County, Alabama, then flows southerly through Elba, where there is a dam, and then south through Ino, Samson, and on to Geneva, where it joins the Choctawhatchee. The river flooded Elba in 1929 and in the 1990s, and joined the Choctawhatchee in flooding Geneva on those same occasions.
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The lake trout is a slow-growing fish, ... Geneva, New York claims the title "Lake Trout Capital of the World," and holds an annual lake trout fishing derby.