Re: NANFA-- Exterme collecting entry

Brian Haas (bhaas_at_netexpress.net)
Sun, 15 Dec 2002 20:04:06 -0600

At 01:43 PM 12/15/02 -0600, you wrote:
>Thomerson has a note a bunch of years ago in Copaea (sp.) about a newspaper
>article out of Alton, Illinois from the 1920s or '30s before the flood
>control dams were put in. Evidentially a bull shark had actually roved that
>far north in the Mississippi and gotten tangled up in the nets of commercial
>fishermen.

This record even makes an appearance in the _Atlas of North American
Freshwater Fishes_ by Lee, et al.

Travis Haas
Hazel Green, WI
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