We may need to develop a taste for this fish just to keep it under control!
Maybe we can start harvesting and exporting them to get some of that trade
surplus back.
I just wonder how much salt they can tolerate and what effect they will have
on the bay. I don't need something else screwing around with my fresh
oysters!
Drummond Howard
Gaithersburg, Maryland
>From: swel0828 at brockport.edu
>Reply-To: nanfa-l at nanfa.org
>To: nanfa-l at nanfa.org
>Subject: NANFA-L-- snakehead news clip
>Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:51:02 -0400
>
>Hello again -
>
> I just wanted to know if that clip (left side of website) is for
>real???
>
>I can't imagine a real biologist would actually promote the
>consumption of this unwanted invasive species in his region!
>
>The story seems legitimate, but that news release is a joke- or should be.
>
>These fish will eat/replace many native fishes that inhabit those waters -
>and quick.
>I would be shocking the _ _ _ _ out of that water at will - until no
>snakehead came up.
>
>If the states are smart they will start the legislation process now to ban
>the possession/consumption
>of this species before the exotic sportfish tag glue dries....
>
>
>Scott M. Wells
>Graduate Research Assistant
>Longear Sunfish Project
>Dept. of Env. Sci. & Biology
>120 Lennon Hall
>S.U.N.Y. College at Brockport
>swel0828 at brockport.edu
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: geoffrey kimber <gkimber2 at gmail.com>
>Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 12:49 pm
>Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- A Deluge of Snakeheads
>
> > one of the local news channels had a piece on snakeheads.
> >
> > here's the link - good shots of snakeheads
> >
> > http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=43667
> >
> > Geoff Kimber
> > Fredericksburg,VA
> > Rappahannock River Drainage
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