I guess it could be worse. Someone could have a bunch of snakeheads to eat, then decide they don’t want them. Then dump them into a river.
That couldn’t have any ramifications at all...
That couldn’t have any ramifications at all...
Stupid people do stupid things.
- Thread starter soon hock
- Start date
Yup! Agreed. Hence us not allowed to have them even if they're invasive already in the east of the US
I don’t want to be that guy, but they aren’t going to get more invasive.
I understand why they are illegal, just upset I won’t ever get to keep one.
They're very invasive lol the northern snakehead. Even was found in IL didnt even know Cali had an issue or Arkansas when looked it up as I do remember NANFA was talking about how bad it was. Hence nationwide ban on any Channas.
Northern Snakehead (Channa argus) - Species Profile
Species summary for Northern Snakehead (Channa argus)
nas.er.usgs.gov
But the tropical ones not even a threat only to the warmer states. I want the warmer temp species ones. So beautiful. But smh we cant ever keep those.
Someone on here made a good point, I forget who it was. If we allow tropicals, then it isn’t very hard for a few northern snakes to get mixed in, and then the problem starts again.
its weird every province but BC and Ontario have no bans on snakeheads even northerns. I might be moving to New brunswick and plan on keeping Snakeheads but not northerns.
Most cases were in Papua New Guinea. It's a form of spongiform encephalopathy. Caused by prions. Similar to mad cow disease and CJD. Typically transmitted by cannibalism.
Reminds me of here. Some activists decided to rescue a bunch of chickens from a farm. By opening the gate and then chasing the chickens out.
There was a heavily used state highway just outside the gate.
Most of the chickens were promptly run over.
