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lukester825;3631920; said:
how were they supposed to know that there were only two fish in the pond? i know that its pretty unlikely to get a substantial population from a landlocked pond, but still better to be safe than sorry
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Safe from what? Kill off the whole native population to prevent the piranha from killing of the native population? Explain that logic to me, piranha can not walk on land so where would they have gone? The worst thing that could have happened is that someone was bitten. Chemical sterilization of a biotope to prevent someone getting bit is idiocy.
 
I hate to say it but it sounds like a knee jerk reaction by the authorities to something stupid that a hobbyist did.
 
Even if it is highly unlikely, why would you risk the chance of having a ferral species, like the piranha to florida, out-compete the native species? So in my opinion its better to be safe than sorry.

"The worst thing that could have happened is that someone was bitten." Please explain how you could possibly know this?
 
in my opinion, I don't think that it would matter having RBP in FL. There are already so many other fish from the amazon and Congo here already that it would just be competing with those. I don't think that it would endanger any native species anymore than they are already from habitat loss and pollution (or FWC officers). I think that this may have been a severe over reaction that was based on that horror movie from the 80's. People are afraid of these fish and officials think that it would scare people away from tourism if they found out that there were piranha.
 
lukester825;3632129; said:
Even if it is highly unlikely, why would you risk the chance of having a ferral species, like the piranha to florida, out-compete the native species? So in my opinion its better to be safe than sorry.

"The worst thing that could have happened is that someone was bitten." Please explain how you could possibly know this?
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It was in a pond so the fear of it spreading was nill. The most these piranha could do would be to wipe out the native fish population, which the FWC did chemically. There is no where for the fish to go even if the could have established a feral population in the pond. The kid would have been fishing piranha instead of native game fish.
 
vladfloroff;3632294; said:
It was in a pond so the fear of it spreading was nill. The most these piranha could do would be to wipe out the native fish population, which the FWC did chemically. There is no where for the fish to go even if the could have established a feral population in the pond. The kid would have been fishing piranha instead of native game fish.
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The pond does have some type of drainage system in case of a flood, so for the fish to have no where to go isn't exactly true.

snakeguy101;3632178; said:
in my opinion, I don't think that it would matter having RBP in FL. There are already so many other fish from the amazon and Congo here already that it would just be competing with those. I don't think that it would endanger any native species anymore than they are already from habitat loss and pollution (or FWC officers). I think that this may have been a severe over reaction that was based on that horror movie from the 80's. People are afraid of these fish and officials think that it would scare people away from tourism if they found out that there were piranha.
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I agree, but it wouldn't be beneficial to have one more non native species to compete with the natives.
 
snakeguy101;3632178; said:
I think that this may have been a severe over reaction that was based on that horror movie from the 80's. People are afraid of these fish and officials think that it would scare people away from tourism if they found out that there were piranha.
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Scare people away from what, though? Swimming in some random Florida pond while on vacation? Anybody dumb enough to go in there with all the alligators would be lucky to get only a piranha bite! Thats just natural selection at its best... If you're dumb enough to swim in there, you shouldn't be allowed to pollute our gene pool anyway! Florida's policies are so ridiculous already. At the rate they're destroying native habitats, soon all that will be left is cockroaches. Besides, aren't piranha already illegal there? I know they are here in TX, so why wouldn't they be in FL?
 
lukester825;3632129; said:
Even if it is highly unlikely, why would you risk the chance of having a ferral species, like the piranha to florida, out-compete the native species? So in my opinion its better to be safe than sorry.

"The worst thing that could have happened is that someone was bitten." Please explain how you could possibly know this?
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I..just...no words...:screwy:
 
I hate to see all of those fish die.

I was watching a documentary about the snakehead invading the US and they used an electrical device that would stun the fish for a minute or so, so G&F could net out all of the snakeheads without killing native species... These G&F should've taken this approach instead of pouring chems into that pond.
 
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