Re: NANFA-L-- Releasing fish?

Bill Flowers (bloomin-in-indy.net)
Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:52:00 -0500

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I personally will never release a fish back into the wild even if it
came from the waters that I am putting it back in. Some of the reasons
for this is you could be introducing a disease into the wild that the
rest of the native fish could catch and die from. There is no known
incident of this ever happening, but I would hate to be the first. Also
the fish that has been in a tank for awhile may lose some of its hunting
instinct and die from starvation. They can get use to that regular meal
everyday. Also I believe that DNR frowns on releasing any fish back into
the wild. Even though you know that the fish originally came from that
creek, river, or lake.
The consveration officer doesn't and could slap you with a fine if caught.

Billl

Snailcollector14-in-cs.com wrote:

> I am writing a basic article about native fish and have a question
> about releasing fish. Some say that you should never release a native
> fish kept in captivity, even to its native waters. Others say that you
> shouldn't release them only if they were kept with fish from different
> locations. What is your view on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew

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I personally will never release a fish back into the wild even if it came from the waters that I am putting it back in. Some of the reasons for this is you could be introducing a disease into the wild that the rest of the native fish could catch and die from. There is no known incident of this ever happening, but I would hate to be the first. Also the fish that has been in a tank for awhile may lose some of its hunting instinct and die from starvation. They  can get use to that regular meal everyday. Also I believe that DNR frowns on releasing any fish back into the wild. Even though you know that the fish originally came from that creek, river, or lake.
The consveration officer doesn't and could slap you with a fine if caught.

 Billl

Snailcollector14-in-cs.com wrote:

I am writing a basic article about native fish and have a question about releasing fish. Some say that you should never release a native fish kept in captivity, even to its native waters. Others say that you shouldn't release them only if they were kept with fish from different locations. What is your view on this?

Thanks,
Andrew

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