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Guest_don212_*
Posted 13 October 2014 - 07:18 PM
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Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 16 October 2014 - 05:03 PM
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Guest_AussiePeter_*
Posted 16 October 2014 - 06:02 PM
A problem I see with overall approach to mosquito fish is that they are being vilified even in areas they are native to because of all the negative press associated with invasive populations.
I do agree, but the folks stocking them around the place pay little attention to this. They treat them as native to a state and spread them all over that state which greatly expands their ranges into places, and with fishes that have never co-existed (like Barron's Topminnow in TN).
Cheers
Peter
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Guest_Skipjack_*
Posted 16 October 2014 - 06:44 PM
Also every fish hatchery that sells to the public carries them nowadays. People are set to be bucket biologists. Heck I put them in my 1/4 acre pond. Of course I caught them locally from the introduced population in a stream a couple miles away. They are in so many streams around here now that the damage is done. The state is not responsible for stocking them, but they are responsible for not regulating them. I didn't stock them for mosquito control, rather for building my food chain. They seem to hang on and reproduce in my pond much better than any shiners that I have tried.I do agree, but the folks stocking them around the place pay little attention to this. They treat them as native to a state and spread them all over that state which greatly expands their ranges into places, and with fishes that have never co-existed (like Barron's Topminnow in TN).
Cheers
Peter
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