Caught selling walking cats&snakeheads
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So has anyone heard of or had dealings with this wholesaler in Ohio? And why are People at the bottom getting clipped But it makes no mention of going at the source?
OMG! 5 years in prison and $250,000 fine if convicted. Daaaannnngggg! I think this sentence is worse than killing a person.
interesting, because it's people like you that makes me lose faith in my species. and once again it appears my concerns are greater than yours. what good will your country do when your species is no longer here to live in it?
If you check my posts, you will see that I used to 100% be in total agreement with you. I LMAO everytime I heard the horror stories of these "frankenfish" doing everything from biting the wings off of overhead flying Boeing 747 jets . . .
I have subsequently come to understand that the truth lies somewhere inbetween.
No, Snakeheads cannot outrun Cheetahs on land.
Snakeheads cannot fly, Eat human babies, sink ships.
What they can do is overrun an ecosystem!
If you ever come to the US, and please do come out for the next annual Potomac Snakehead tournament, you will find that this waterway has been totally overrun with them.
I participated last year and caught a half a dozen in a couple hours. They a freakin' delicious! We took over 6,000 from a few mile stretch of the damn river!!!
Maryland has recent fossil evidence of indigenous Bowfin, however there has not been a single documented case of one caught since the introduction of the Snakehead to the Crofton, MD. pond a little over a decade ago. Two years ago, Deleware also discovered Snakeheads in their waterways, and again not a single documented case of a Bowfin caught since.
Yep, they drove the extremely similiar looking Bowfin out of MD. and DE.
As to why you don't "keep" the snakeheads that you catch for home aquaria:
In Maryland it is a massive fine and prison term for even catching one without "killing" it. All MD. fishermen that get a fishing license are required to learn how to go about the safest way to "Kill" them if you are "unfortunate" enough to catch them.
If that head ain't seperate from that body, you are guilty. If you get caught "cutting your line" or releasing them, you go to jail, loose you license and probabaly your boat.
My biggest issue is that it is still we "fishkeeper" that are blamed for their release into the wild. That is the greatest pile of BULL-you know what that has ever come down the pike.
A handful (or even 100) private fishkeepers that released a pet snakehead or two" into the wild didn't do Jack
Anyone stupid enough to believe that needs their butt severely kicked.
The truth, The Oriential supermarkets that sold them by the hundreds for food very intentionally threw them in the waterway to raise them for revenue in their business.
People think with your heads and not your rear ends for Pete's sake! How much money (Profit) would the owners of the Oriental supermarkets Maryland make if they imported all of their snakeheads from overseas to sell "live" in their fish market tanks. Next to freakin' nothing. Now think how much profit that they would make if they had a limitless supply of em a handful of miles down the road. Mystery solved!
You want to help the situation, boycott all Oriental resteraunts and drive them from the state/ country.
Next time you order your Chow Mein & pork fried rice, know that you are supporting the demolision of the local environment.
Supermarkets sold more live Snakeheads in a week than Hobby staore could dream of selling in a year!
it's interesting that bowfin has disappeared when the snakeheads showed up....however I believe that mis-identification and a media-panic plays a role on declining bowfin populations (not mentioned that bowfin are not excatly a popular sportfish). Sure they are lot of snakeheads in the river systems, however I hasn't see any evidence that they causes any negative effects on the ecosystem.
I think they are right up there with muskie, northern pike, and gar all native and are pretty much capable of doin what the snakehead does except breath air which gar can do. Carp are to me are more of a problem in our waters
I agree! Everything pulled out of the waterways that looks like a Snakehead or Bowfin is just called a Snakehead now. I guess that means there's no more Bowfins? None. 6000 Snakeheads and zero Bowfin.....
IMO the Bowfins are still there, now everyone is calling them Snakeheads and killing them.
Here's a good example of Media-panic:
"I participated last year and caught a half a dozen in a couple hours. They a freakin' delicious! We took over 6,000 from a few mile stretch of the damn river!!!"
Didn't happen with out a picture. I bet over half of these were Bowfin, Dog fish, or whatever else the hillbillies call them this week....
