Re: NANFA-- over-collecting?

B.G. Granier (bgkajun_at_worldnet.att.net)
Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:30:18 -0500

Well, just to chime in here.....it'd take more than NANFA's general
membership to put even a ding, much less a dent on the gambusia and
killifish populations down in Louisiana.......First of all, there are far
too many areas of in-accessible swampland here to sample it all!

And then, there are the other species such as alligators and venomous snakes
to contend with.......

Speaking from experience.

BG
----- Original Message -----
From: Jay DeLong <thirdwind_at_att.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 12:38 PM
Subject: RE: NANFA-- over-collecting?

> > > There is so little collecting going on anywhere anyway. NA natives
will
> > > never catch on as aquarium fishes, except for killifishes and
> > > livebearers (some of which HAVE suffered from over-collecting).
> >
> >
> > Jay,
> >
> > I'm not as up on livebearers and killies as I should. Which species have
> > suffered from over-collecting?
>
> I shouldn't have said that without the facts. It came from an earlier
> discussion on this list that is missing some of the facts. I don't recall
> the population, but a Phoenix pet store owner removed a genetically unique
> population of Gambusia from a desert spring or stream some years back.
> There is a written account of this in some publication, which I have read
> myself but can't recall the source or species.
>
> I think we can generally all agree that rare species which easy to rear in
> aquaria, like livebearers and killies, and which are confined to limited
> areas, would be collected to extinction if not protected.
>
> --
> 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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