A fishing club has won a six-year legal battle against a council after it drained a lake and failed to take action to protect fish stocks.
Caerphilly council has been ordered to pay more than £30,000 in compensation to the Rhymney Valley and District Angling Society.
Contractors drained the lake at Parc Cwm Darran near Bargoed in 2013 to carry out maintenance work.
But the fishing club said it had not been informed of the work.
After the water was drained, fishermen found many fish had been washed away into the river and others had suffocated in the silt at the bottom of the lake.