Poor Fish

[TheOldSalt]

Snakeheads are QUITE yummy, you know. I don't know if that release was intentional or accidental, but most of the releases have been traced to asian immigrants who wanted them for food, with only one traced back to a fishkeeper, as I understand it.
The snakehead's peculiar breeding habit allowed it take off here like some aquatic kudzu.

By the way, the Snakehead is starting to be accepted in a small way as a gamefish to be intentionally fished for, just like carp and oscars. Since it looks like they're here to stay, it's a good thing that they're at least good for something, unlike most invaders. Zebra Mussel chowder, anyone?

Anyway, that should serve as a reminder to us that it's a lot easier to keep an invader out of our waters than to get rid of it once it's established. Sometimes the ending isn't as happy as it was with oscars. Whirling Disease is an import introduced by exotic fish, and it's wiping out millions of fish up in the midwest-to-northwest areas. What a mess. Sadly, that introduction wasn't by a hobbyist, but by the gov ' t fisheries people who should have known better than to be so careless.

[ALFA WOLF]

I remember a certain golden trout that was native to a certain river and to increas fishing thier the government released a bunch of non native trouts that eat all the food suplies for the golden trout. So they became endangered and one guy went in and caught ever trout he could and now they are climbing back up. So in other words dont put fish were they dont belong for the entertainment of fisherman.