bumpylemon;3047074; said:
and you wonder why this bill is being introduced
I look at it this way. The canals are mostly man made to regulate water . S.Florida "soil" is mostly sand with coral rock few inches under the "soil" .
The water temp in those canals esp 6 months a year are so hot that no native sunfish or non PB could live in it. They dont even travel through it in summer its just that hot.
Exotics have filled an empty man made niche . I cant fathom cichlids in the slightest way taking a toll on natives. Lakes which are fed by canals you find big native bass living by the "connection" because they eat the cichlids.
I myself disdain the PC FWC . They will try to eradicate harmless fire mouths living in shallow 90 degree temp canal but refuse to regulate wild collecting of soft shell turtles or native green anoles,etc sold over seas .
I agree about snakeheads, pythons few others but vast majority of non natives here have filled an empty niche and if anything increase the revenue as fishermen/women come to fish the exotics.
Even the brown anole or Cuban trreefrog have filled the niche in the growing Miami cement "jungle" while the green natives could not live in that but were not displaced
