Fredrick wrote:
I plan to C&R they are here to stay just like the flatheads and rainbow and brown trout . I wouldnt mind eating one since I here they are delicious .
Since afish gets to do the bully pulpit bit,I can +1 that.lolSome guys think more about their own fun catching fish and have little regard or respect for nature and the native species that inhabit our streams and rivers. Yes, the genie is out of the bottle, and many of the native fishes have been displaced, but one should at least care enough to not compound the problem for the sake of their own fishing pleasure.
Fredrick wrote:
I plan to C&R they are here to stay just like the flatheads and rainbow and brown trout . I wouldnt mind eating one since I here they are delicious .
Troy wrote:
Fredrick wrote:
I plan to C&R they are here to stay just like the flatheads and rainbow and brown trout . I wouldnt mind eating one since I here they are delicious .
Wow, that was a dumb statement.
nealfish wrote:
are the snakeheads around enough up in the bucks county area to target them specifically? in a pond near me we found a dead one, mostly eaten. estimated at about 15 inches, head was left, thats how we i.d. told caretaker. pumped out the pond most of the way and checked every fish in it. it was the only one.
Well put Pcray I to was playing devils advocate with my post . Bottom line is im going to do what the law requires of me as a angler. But people need to realize they are here to stay and besides of all the hype from the media they are no more exotic than a Brown trout. So why not embrace it .pcray1231 wrote:
I personally agree with the consensus and would kill all I caught. But, just to play devil's advocate. What about brown trout? They invaded. They screwed up the ecosystem and outcompeted native species. And now we embrace them.
What Fredrick is saying is they are here to stay in the streams they are in. He didn't advocate planting them in snakehead free waters. He was just saying why act like you're gonna eradicate them when it just ain't happening. Might as well embrace them in the places they already exist.
It is comparable to didymo, but Fredrick didn't say he wasn't worried about expanding their range. The concern for both is in transporting them. But where they're at, there's not much that can be done. So if you picked up a clump of didymo, it wouldn't hurt a dang thing to "release it" in the water it came from.
Fredrick wrote:
Well put Pcray I to was playing devils advocate with my post . Bottom line is im going to do what the law requires of me as a angler. But people need to realize they are here to stay and besides of all the hype from the media they are no more exotic than a Brown trout. So why not embrace it .pcray1231 wrote:
I personally agree with the consensus and would kill all I caught. But, just to play devil's advocate. What about brown trout? They invaded. They screwed up the ecosystem and outcompeted native species. And now we embrace them.
What Fredrick is saying is they are here to stay in the streams they are in. He didn't advocate planting them in snakehead free waters. He was just saying why act like you're gonna eradicate them when it just ain't happening. Might as well embrace them in the places they already exist.
It is comparable to didymo, but Fredrick didn't say he wasn't worried about expanding their range. The concern for both is in transporting them. But where they're at, there's not much that can be done. So if you picked up a clump of didymo, it wouldn't hurt a dang thing to "release it" in the water it came from.