CichlidFiend, Bowfin are US Natives. If you can't be sure they were snakeheads, please don't say it.
Fishzilla: Snakehead Invasion
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T1KARMANN;2945220; said:
of course any introduction is bad , by the way our goverments are by far the biggest culprets for introducing no native species to our water over the years for anything from controlling other fish to stocking potential food fish , but the point is you dont see a program on clamzilla or cichlidzilla or a variety of other invaders to us soil , and the program itsself was full of mis-information. all through the program they go on about this fishes ability to walk on land , leave the body of water they have emptied and move to a new source.
channa argus and channa micropeltis the two species the program concentrated on are no more capable of overland migration as a cod , you cannot cheat nature and the pectoral fins of both of these fish lack any structure to move the fish on land. they even placed some fish in a picture that showed a group of argus in a race accros land , this simply can not happen.
the true walking snakeheads (orientalis ect.do not have pelvic fins evelution has designed them this way to help overland migration , although some of the smaller species with pelvic fins have evolved the pectoral fins reqd for movment( there structure is very special and makes for a very strong fin ) i.e. SOME gachua variants
i was also very disapointed in national geo for airing this program , i alway though they showed good factual programs not fiction .
cheers col
srikamaraja;2948258; said:
they maybe native but when introduced to a lake /river they take over due to how the reproduce and the the eat all the bass fry.
I have seen a school of 2-3 pound bass(decent size foe nj) protecting one bed from one bowfin/snakehead. I caught one before out of this lake but it turned out to be a bowfin.
Here in nj they allow you to release bowfins back but they do see how they are talking over.
