Catch, keep, release

[MN_Rebel]

Thank you. I dont want to see another fish species got banned due to careless fishkeeper or set up new laws about keeping native fishes in some states. Even im new to this forum but not new to fishkeeping.

And it can pose a threat to another speices and that is hybridization. Different localitions of same fish, may not be same species. For example the farm trout/ wild trout hybrids are terrible and have low survival rates than wild trouts.

 

[MN_Rebel]

What about baitshops that sell assorted minnows and such? Those things come out of nasty conditions but yet fisherman use them all the time and most release remaining live ones, can't they carry disease? I mean they're in a non filtered tank, kept with dead fish floating around, and are not in a "vacuum." How's this any different then releasing a fish into a lake?



Jimmy

Therefore thats why the laws make baitfish illegal to dump back into the waters. Baby carp, green sunfish juvies, mosquitofish, bullhead and other exotics can found in mixing with other minnows.

 

[Moontanman]

What about baitshops that sell assorted minnows and such? Those things come out of nasty conditions but yet fisherman use them all the time and most release remaining live ones, can't they carry disease? I mean they're in a non filtered tank, kept with dead fish floating around, and are not in a "vacuum." How's this any different then releasing a fish into a lake?



Jimmy

I some areas bait shops that sell wild caught minnows are already a thing of the past, Even the farm raised minnows are no longer legal in some places. VHS is causing some real problems and we will see a whole sale change in how things are done every where before this problem is over, if it ever is.

 

[RedDevilDon2005]

wow, you guys arent getting the point. its not about keeping fish in tap water. would you drink your tank water even though it can from the tap? aquarium water is dif. than lets say lake water. youre still bringin things the fish may have into your tank, such as parasites or disease. or if you raise a fish in an aquarium and you release it into the wild it may have some type of disease and/or parasite you dont know about. then you release whatever it may have into the wild, or the other way around.

 

[ewurm]

Next time just Catch, Keep, Eat

Or catch, keep, give to a responsible fishkeeper

Or catch, keep, euthanize

Or even better, catch keep

All are better options than playing "bucket biologist" with the local waterways.

 

[teleost]

What about baitshops that sell assorted minnows and such? Those things come out of nasty conditions but yet fisherman use them all the time and most release remaining live ones, can't they carry disease? I mean they're in a non filtered tank, kept with dead fish floating around, and are not in a "vacuum." How's this any different then releasing a fish into a lake?
Jimmy

Jimmy,
This is a good and fair question. Indeed we have laws that prevent release of unused bait but that does little for disease transmission. The big difference in pet shops (our home aquariums) and bait farmers are regulations about what and how baitfish are farmed. They can't simply take pet shop fish and mix them with commercially sold bait. On that note...if you think about the average petshop, they filter all of their tanks on a central system (for economic reasons). In other words, they might have all the continents diseases mixed up in every tank. You then take a fish home and mix it with natives. You then release a native fish with all the disease of all the continents. OK that might be a stretch but you get the point.