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Fish Pond

Posted by James Turnbull, Wednesday, 7th February 2007

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There’s an odd fish-shaped clearing in the forest just outside the Dutch city of Ommen.

However, even using my best Google searching abilities, I can’t find any information on whether or not the clearing is a natural phenomena or a man-made advert for a great fishing spot.

If it is a fishing spot then we could say there’s both fish in the pond and pond in the fish :D

Thanks: koen L

8 Responses to 'Fish Pond'

  1. Dan says:

    Haha! Free advertising if the above comment is anything to go by.

  2. koen says:

    Judging from the info on this site, the pond (named zeeserven) appears to be natural. A “ven” is a type of pond found in natural areas in this part of the netherlands, but I wouldn’t really know the english word.

  3. Edith says:

    A “ven” is a “fen” in English.

    “low land that is covered wholly or partly with water unless artificially drained and that usually has peaty alkaline soil and characteristic flora (as of sedges and reeds)”, says Merriam-Webster online (www.m-w.com).

  4. Bram says:

    You can translate “ven” also as ‘mere’ ‘pool’ or (US south) ‘glade’. Here you go.

    And I’s say the other shapes are jellyfishes :)

  5. Jack says:

    It’s the snack that smiles back, until you bite its head off… poor goldfish crackers…

  6. What is type of vegatation of a “ven”? It looks rather “muck” like and not deep at all. Does this support any stable fish populations?

  7. matt says:

    just a coincedence mabey. looks like theres a pond or something in there. hmmmmm… I wonder if there are actually fish in there

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