| WARSAW (Reuters) -
Three Polish divers face a police probe for possible
illegal fishing and abuse of animals after a newspaper
photo showed them plying a freshly caught pike with
champagne at an outdoor New Year's party.
"They may have committed offences of poaching and
maltreating a fish," said Maria Niedziolka of the
National Fishing Authority, which notified police about
the incident.
One of the frogmen, seeing in the New Year by diving in
a lake near the city of Opole, told news agency PAP that
they had found the pike half-dead and wanted to
"restore it to consciousness by treating it with
champagne".
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| Divers hold a fresh
water pike and ply him with sparkling wine in a lake
near Opole on January 1. Three Polish divers face a
police probe on Thursday for possible illegal fishing
and abuse of animals. REUTERS/Nowa Trybuna Opolska |
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