Ty
Jay DeLong groused:
>Common names are changed at times. For example, the name squawfish is
>officially dead and replaced by pikeminnow. To me this is a very
confusing
>name! And as someone else pointed out somewhere, why include the word
>"pike" at all with this fish considering the legal and public relations
>efforts to remove northern pike from western waters?
Pikeminnow is a perfectly fine name. It's a minnow. And it's pike shaped.
A little background for those unfamiliar with the fish's name change:
<snip>
While some complain that this is political correctness run amok, the name
"pikeminnow" is actually superior to "squawfish" for the reasons I stated
above.
Chris Scharpf
Baltimore
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