im pretty sure our monsters wouldnt mind helping us "alleviate" the problem while they get fat.ewurm;713518; said:
NEVER release an aquarium fish into the wild.
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Man, I hate it when people release aquarium fish in the wild. Sure, they may be a living thing, but native fish need to live as well. I have seen way too many goldfish and kois being caught.
Bucket biologists are just as bad. There was one lake I been to that had great perches and walleyes, then some idiot decided to bring basses from Ontario to Alberta.
Bucket biologists are just as bad. There was one lake I been to that had great perches and walleyes, then some idiot decided to bring basses from Ontario to Alberta.
Heh, being in Canada... not many species survive here. Maybe a few invasive carps and a couple of other fish in eastern Canada or northeast U.S. IT is even harsher when you go up to to the Northwest Territories. When you see an introduced fish in a harsh places and you're used to the natives that spawn in those lakes and streams, it really get on your nerve.ewurm;737544; said:
Sure we have tropical introduced species, but they are limited to the hotsprings in the Rocky Mountains. I am sure the locals in those areas assumed they are natural since most of multiplying foreign shoals, such as Mosquitofish, Guppies, Mollys, Angelfish, Convicts, Swordtails and Jewelfish originally came the ones released during the '50s and '60s. However, those fish are wiping out the hot spring species such as the Cutthroat Trouts that were accoustomed to high temperature, Bnaff Snail, and already wiped out the Banff Longnose Dace. The sad thing is that those populating non-natives are a tourist attraction.
Bucket biologists are worse, they have intentions rather than unknownigly or too weak-hearted to prevent those things. A lot of us consider the Brown Trout as a native species to western Canada, but they are not. A guy rolled over his tank truck on a highway, intending the stock for another province, and spilled some in a stream, people liked the catches in that stream and demanded more of the big trout. You can see how it spread from there. Just dumb. Anglers complain about non-natives, yet they stock, through government or illegally, the lakes with exotic trouts and perch-types.
With all the "stupid" people releasing native caught animals (after keeping them as pets for a while), how do you explain the survival of anything native? If there were so many diseases and they were so horrible, why aren't entire populations of native animals gone? Why have no native animals become extinct as a result of this? I'm strictly talking about native animals. I agree with the invasive species ideas.
Does a species really have to become extinct before you think there is any damage to the ecosystem? If you dumped motor oil into a lake, it probably wouldn't kill every thing in the lake, but it wouldn't be a good thing either. There are laws regarding the release of captive fish for a reason.
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