Snakeheads in the Potomac River...Hah!

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snakeheads are already banned from the states , no importing them no exporting them. no public sale or trade. just the ones you have you have, you cant even breed them (legally) anymore.

ive got a pond full of'em and i catch one when ever i want fish for dinner. and ya it would be kinda cool to have a snakehead fishery out here. in a private secluded lake that is....
 
The TRUST said:
To Everyone interested in fishing for Snakeheads,

I have received some concerning emails about this topic. I must remind you to please follow all rules set by the USFW on catching snakeheads. Also keep in mind that the possesion and and interstate transport is illegal.

Always remember this forum can be viewed publicly so ANYONE can read what you say.

MonsterFishKeepers.com does not support nor encourage anyone in to break the law so please to always remember to check the rules.

Have fun fishing

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ya, ya, me too.:)
 
The day they created the ban I went to a petshop in Nashville that I knew had about ten of them and they wouldn't sell 'em to me. I was ticked cause I knew the owner was going to keep them for himself. So if anyone gets a few I'm game for 'em. Heck, being illegal just makes it more fun!
 
looks like the trip will be in early august or late july depending on when im going on vacation


neo and will send me a PM of which is a better date so we can get this trip moving!
 
It is sad to see so much aggression towards someone who is looking at the situation objectively. The fact is that not everyone out there is a responsible pet owner and far too many exotic species find their way into local waterways. While many soon die off, a few can survive and do great harm to native species. Sometimes it is hard to look beyond our own selfish desires and recognize the fact that just because it is out there does not mean we have to posess it. I would never release anything myself, but that is not really the point. There are plenty of idiots who do. As such, extreme measures may be necessary unless they institute a program of selctive human breeding to increase the average I.Q.
 
I don't see why the specie that scare the legislature can't be liscensed and the owner required to report any transfers and show the corpse of any reported dead. A pain I know but at least we could keep things like snake heads.
 
guppy said:
I don't see why the specie that scare the legislature can't be liscensed and the owner required to report any transfers and show the corpse of any reported dead. A pain I know but at least we could keep things like snake heads.
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Great idea. But it is so much easier to ban anything, than do a lot of work and not have the resources.

NOTE: All the rivers and lakes in the Phillipines are only inhabited by the channa striata and clarias clarias. There are hardly any native species in rivers and lakes other than those two species. You will find native brackish and estuarine fish, but in rivers, lakes, and ponds, all you will find are channa striata and the walking catfish....everything aquatic is gone except the cane toad, which is also an introduced species...

I guess the ultimate thing to do, and if this is a perfect world is to have each exotic animal, or fish be studied first prior to approval of entry....BUT that is in a perfect world, which we all know that it isn't.
 
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