In September 2025, a claim circulated online that migrants in the U.K. were eating wild swans and carp from the country's parks, lakes and rivers. Similarly, reports about Eastern European anglers poaching carp and other freshwater fish from the U.K.'s waterways dated back to at least 2006. In September 2025, a rumor circulated online that migrants in the U.K. were eating swans and carp from the country's parks, lakes and rivers. Full Fact, a British fact-checking website, listed several examples of reports about Eastern European migrants poaching carp in England (archived). Snopes also contacted Farage to ask whether he believed the claim that migrants were eating swans and carp as this was unclear from his exchange with Ferrari.