Idiots who introduce fish

BullwinkleII

I didn't know we had Tilapia in Oz?

Bastards!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppqzqXvxecA <- not a video of people introducing them, just of some lads hunting them with a bow.

I take it that really is Tilapia???

Apparently there is a virus that might be introduced to take out the carp from our waterways.

Imagine the Murray full of native fish again.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-01/h ... ys/7373736

dlf_perth

Tilapia established in quite a few places in QLD including quite a few dams.

Is on the declared list - must kill and dispose at least xx metres from water.
cannot be removed from site or transported.
must not be used as bait etc etc.

Mr Damage

You mean a Gascoyne or Murchison River Bream?

dlf_perth

Greenough & Chapman Rivers as well...

http://www.nacc.com.au/popup/control-of ... ilapia-sp/

interesting stats.....
332,314 fish captured.
214,356 pest fish extracted
First-ever record of a freshwater eel in mid-west WA

dlf_perth

and one for you Bullwinkle... http://www.mdba.gov.au/sites/default/fi ... report.pdf
(Murray-Darling populations and risk analysis)

BullwinkleII

I had no idea.

I'm a big anti-fan of the death penalty, but I could be convinced when it comes to a very few who thought bringing some beasts and plants in from home might be a good idea.

Bastards!

BullwinkleII

Mr Damage wrote:

You mean a Gascoyne or Murchison River Bream?

No idea, but I welcome all the education anyone can offer as part of my normal embracement of life.

(really??? embracement is a word? My spell checker didn't freak out at all)

BullwinkleII

Might I just add that this thread is I think the only one that has made me miserable on all of BYAP ...so.... thanks people.

SeanD

Closer to home somebody apparently released a bunch of carp into the new wetlands near the Salisbury highway. From what I can understand most of the water comes from road runoff, or from places that don't have carp, yet a few years later and the place is full of them.

I went carp fishing the other day in a suburban pond, there were some monsters in there gulping at all the bread that was being fed to the ducks by my wife and child but none took my hook... I had a big bucket with me in case I managed to snag a giant goldish for the aquaponics - the main reason for my fishing adventure!

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