RE: NANFA-- Carillio in the news

Jay DeLong (thirdwind_at_att.net)
Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:20:58 -0700

> It sounds as though someone thinks collection is going to wipe
> out the fish.

Yes it does. What a wrong message to associate with NANFA, or to release at
all. Who is the author and who is the biologist who suposedly said that
anyway? There are millions of rainbow darters in Ohio. In some of the
little streams where I used to hang out I could kick up hundreds easily in
just a few riffles. And really-- forget about rainbow darters! How many
aquarists keep native fish anyway, compared to stream degradation and
development and pollution!?

--
Jay DeLong
Olympia, WA
"If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do
not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts?
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent
tinkering."
~ Aldo Leopold (1953)

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