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Aug 13, 2008 9:31 am US/Eastern

Lawmaker Fighting To Keep Bread At Pymatuning Park

LINESVILLE (AP) ― A state lawmaker is fighting to preserve an odd "family tradition" in northwestern Pennsylvania: feeding bread to the carp at Pymatuning State Park.

State Rep. Michele Brooks, a Republican from Crawford County, wants a public meeting next month on the state's plan to allow only commercial fish food at the park.

The Linesville Spillway at the park has been famous for decades because carp throng so thickly for the bread that ducks can walk on the fish.

But starting Jan. 1, bread and other treats will be banned because some food tossed to the fish isn't healthy.

Discarded bread wrappers and other litter is also a problem.

More than 300,000 people come to feed the carp each year.

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