The king of the Lake Garda

A large numbers of fish lives the waters of the lake even if not all "wallow"

The Garda Carpione is critical endangered due to a study of the International Union forConservation of Nature IUCN. This fish belonging to the Salmonidae, find the lake of Garda as the unique habitat for reproduce and live. Is a fact that is an exclusive for our lake and all the attempts for introduce him to a number of other lakes in Italy was unsuccessfully in all cases.

The first law to protect the "King" was issued by the Republic of Venice in 1464 with an act that raised him to dish of honor at banquets. Nowadays the three provinces that administrate the territory are together looking for particular legislation aimed at its protection with joint actions.

There are two visions of the past and the future of Carpione. To one side the fishermen those are nostalgic of when the lake water was less cold and when from the side of the lake some rock slide were creating the natural habitats for reproduction.

In another vision, the researchers show that the decisive factor for the gradual disappearance was the inclusion of non-native species that are detracting the necessary food for its proliferation and in some case the eggs in the two periods of the year made for the reproduction.

In a mixture of nostalgia and desire for the preservation, the Garda Carpione struggle not to leave their land and continue to royally dominate this mirror of the sky that sometimes still recalls the Olympians, as he did with Saturn. The legend narrates the birth of this fish, but this is another story.