Hi Craig,
Thanks for posting that link. A documentary called 'Horizon' over here in
the UK screened a program about that problem last thursday!! It showed the
Calurpa underneath the outflow from the Monaco Aquarium and its 'supposed'
to have come from there. They showed vast fields of it choking all the local
fauna and fish stocks over those areas had dropped by 50%!!. The scientist
who discovered it told the French officials and it took them 10 years before
they did anything, of course by then what was a minor incident was a major
dissaster!! Typical poiliticians!! how do the keep their jobs?? Anyway the
calurpa was a 'morphed' form that grew in a lab in Germany and was sent out
to many Public Aquariums as it could cope with lower temps... they then
showed it in the bay in california and suggested it had come from a
hobbyists tank (as the artical you posted!!)...
The solution in the Med was a tiny slug that lives exclusivly on the Calurpa
and they are trying to get permission from the 'red tape' guys to try them
out... we'll have to wait and see on that one...
It just highlights how careful we should all be when we move creatures from
their natural habitats and how dangerous it is to release foreign things
into the environment... We have quite a problem over here in the UK.
American Bull Frogs live over here now, released by some idiot and they are
now destroying our native frogs, the same happened with a foreign species of
crayfish!! and also many of our rivers are now home to Red Ear Terrapins,
that people released when they got to big, after they were bought when the
Teenage Mutant Turtle craze was around over here!!
A Great White Shark was found down in Cornwall in fishing nets!!
Dread to think what will happen next...
Kind regards
Jules
on 2/9/01 4:32 AM, Tom Dalldorf at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Read Reef Notes in the most recent FAMA magazine to see how this story has
> taken on a life of its own.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Neptune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> Here's some interesting news I thought that everyone might be interested
> in.
>> http://www.earthsky.com/Shows/Latest/ It just goes to show you how much
> of
>> an affect we can have on our environment. It kind of makes you think.
> FWIW
>>
>> Craig
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