Perched 1,800 meters (about 6,000 feet) near France's border with Spain lies the emerald Areau lake whose color experts blame on minnows used by anglers as live bait. "When one sees these fish in the mountain lakes, we see a disturbed ecosystem," said Adeline Loyau, a biologist and researcher at the National Polytechnic Institute (INP) in the southern French city of Toulouse. These tiny fish, less than 10 centimeters long, are used as live bait.
Perched 1,800 metres (about 6,000 feet) from France's border with Spain is the emerald Areau lake whose colour experts blame on minnows used by anglers as live bait.But one always blames the anglers," he said.
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