Martin
Jackson, MS
----- Original Message -----
From: "D. Martin Moore" <archimed_at_hotmail.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 6:23 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- "Hey, let's release some fish!"
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Arndtg_at_aol.com>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2001 2:20 PM
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- "Hey, let's release some fish!"
>
>
> > Martin
> > I recommend that you get the top NANFA official for Mississippi to do
> > something about this problem. I think you should find out who he is and
> get
> > on him to do something pronto.
>
> That would be me, I guess, being the regional rep and a BOD member. Not
> much can be done any more about the licensing, but one violator is well
> known to the game wardens/law enforcement. This "farmer" suggested that
the
> Tilapia were being carried on heron's feet! Despite the fact that he is
> known to flush his ponds into the local river. I suggested to the game
> warden that perhaps a heron could carry a sack of rotenone to his ponds.
>
> It's the agency which issues the license to bozos such as this that is the
> problem, and the legislature for transferring that power to them when they
> are clearly placing little value on the ecological component of what they
> are doing.
>
>
>
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