Yeah so is jay walking. I cant wait until PETA weighs in on the senseless killing of fish at the besthast of usfw. The agency thats supposed to be protecting animals and plants.
Kill a Snakehead, Pass Go and collect $200
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Yeah so is jay walking. I cant wait until PETA weighs in on the senseless killing of fish at the besthast of usfw. The agency thats supposed to be protecting animals and plants.
Their in some of the lakes here in NC but I dont believe they are in my local watering holes mainly Falls Lake. To be quite honest, if I ever came across one I would kill it. I would def. send that info to the park rangers with as close to detail of the locale. I dont like invasive species. I know invasive is almost a relative term depending on how you look at it. In some of the ponds out my way there has been a big upcropping of parrot feather and hydrilla. Family owned ponds have takin action by introducing carp(i think they are white amura). It has a small impact but not much. Same can prolly be said about fishing for snakeheads
Yes but it is illegal to sell fish for the perpose of food with out a commerical licnese in Florida.
Kill a snakehead won't solve any problems and IMO they should drop "invasinve" term and label them as non-native snakeheads. IMO most people were too scared, lazy or dumb to do actual research. Largemouth bass populations weren't declining at all.
What's funny is there are a lot of these so called "invasive" fish in the USA that were purposely put into water systems by our own fish and game and no is complaining about them. Like the grass carp and many other non native species around the US.
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.....and from what I hear,the grass carp are more harmful to the environment than the snakeheads.
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Hell in Florida there are oscars in a large majority of the waterways and they have bred and will eventually become extremely invasive as like in aquariums they will eat anything that can fit in their mouth so they will most likely decline fish populations and probably spread. But snakeheads are way overexxagerated. Carp are extremely invasive and can do a lot of damage. So why don't they control carp as much. People have some crazy reasons for doing things and I.don't understand that. The aquarium hobby is not the same anymore. Watch after oscars become invasive because they are everywhere people will be not allowed to have any oscars then onto another breed of fish, then to another. Until eventually we will all be stuck with god Damn guppies! Sorry if this doesn't make any sense to you but I believe that almost all types of aquarium fish have at least a few non native populations in the us and eventually those populations will increase. Soon our hobby will be left with some basic fish like guppies which no one wants. So what is killing a few hundred snakeheads gonna do? Even if the us wipes out snakeheads (not possible) there will still be other non native invasive species no matter what we do. I hate these irresponsible people who think that dumping one little fish will do no problems, but add all these people doing this up and you have thousands of non native species in native waters. If you buy a fish you need to commit to it and to keep it throughout its whole life. If you can't do this youre not responsible enough to own any live animal. This might not all make sense but it does to me and I hope it does to you too.
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I am not too worried about these oscars in Florida and they are not really invasives at all. Just an exotic cichlid. And I doubt that they will spread since they are still limited in South Florida area.
