Why? They came from that specific body of water. I'm guessing they are indigenous or at least endemic to his lake. He fished them out of there and had them for less than a couple weeks. It isn't like he bought them from a pet store and cared for them and decided because he didn't want them anymore he is going to dump them into the lake.
Can't get pet crappie to eat.
- Thread starter Erick87
- Start date
Interesting. I never knew that. Thought it was just because they don't want non natives to be introduced into bodies of water they don't belong to. I didn't think about non native diseases that the fish may have caught from the OP's system. Good to know.
So... To the OP. Fry em up crispy or euthanize and bury them by a tree/plant in your backyard/garden.
Baitfish. There is no dividing line....it's always been blurry. They have never been specific on taking and releasing and the who the where the what the why the how long, etc. I can look it up in the 2016 handbook and there's not a drop of literature on it in there
Raja. Love it. Because I would let them go. Lol. But it still makes sense if he kept the fish he caught in a tank with non natives and they contracted some crazy non native disease? Could devastate an ecosystem.
