How bad is the snakehead problem?

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GARRIGA
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Re: How bad is the snakehead problem?

Post by GARRIGA » Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:24 am

dragon1 wrote:
GARRIGA wrote:Humans are an invasive species. North American Indians are not indigenous. They just got here first. You can't play mother nature and you can't control survival of the fittest. If its here now than everything else needs to figure out how to cope with it. Evolution will take care of that.
FWIW....lots of "indigenous folks" got there first...long after (read tens and even hundreds of millions of years) that land mass had been there. Aside Africa, what have we for "indigenous people" then? Just sayin'.
That's the point. Everything spreads. Don't matter if it crossed an ice patch, hitched a ride on a freighter, the pet trade or floating on a log. Once it's there - it's there.

Most of the fight around indigenous is money driven. Zebra mussels clogging pipes cost money to clean. Hydrilla to some home owners is perceived as ugly and lowers property values. Yet, one helped clear up many smallmouth waters and at one time was considered a benefit and the other provides invaluable habitat for bass and it's prey. I doubt most would ever know there were snakeheads if it wasn't for the media and their crazy monster theories. Really, fish crawling out of a pool and attacking a baby? ](*,)

Florida is inandadted with invassives and yet our bass fishery is one of the best in the nation because they've learned to survive with all the new friends who sometimes stay for dinner and other times are dinner. :)

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Re: How bad is the snakehead problem?

Post by dragon1 » Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:18 pm

GARRIGA wrote:
dragon1 wrote:
GARRIGA wrote:Humans are an invasive species. North American Indians are not indigenous. They just got here first. You can't play mother nature and you can't control survival of the fittest. If its here now than everything else needs to figure out how to cope with it. Evolution will take care of that.
FWIW....lots of "indigenous folks" got there first...long after (read tens and even hundreds of millions of years) that land mass had been there. Aside Africa, what have we for "indigenous people" then? Just sayin'.
That's the point. Everything spreads. Don't matter if it crossed an ice patch, hitched a ride on a freighter, the pet trade or floating on a log. Once it's there - it's there.

Most of the fight around indigenous is money driven. Zebra mussels clogging pipes cost money to clean. Hydrilla to some home owners is perceived as ugly and lowers property values. Yet, one helped clear up many smallmouth waters and at one time was considered a benefit and the other provides invaluable habitat for bass and it's prey. I doubt most would ever know there were snakeheads if it wasn't for the media and their crazy monster theories. Really, fish crawling out of a pool and attacking a baby? ](*,)

Florida is inandadted with invassives and yet our bass fishery is one of the best in the nation because they've learned to survive with all the new friends who sometimes stay for dinner and other times are dinner. :)
Got it and agreed. It is in surviving, climatizing and adapting that the fittest move forward.

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