Rob & Dean,

This thread reminds me of a recent report I saw regarding the reintroduction of
elk in northern Arkansas.  Sounded like a pretty good idea to begin with.  In
cooperation with the game department in Colorado, elk were pulled off the
Divide and trucked down to the Buffalo River area.  They seem to be doing
pretty well�  I believe this was started in the late '80s.  The kicker though
is that by way of repayment, Arkansas transported a heapin� helpin� of their
largemouth bass up to Colorado.  I suspect these went into the various
impoundments built around the state.  I had no idea that the basses were
originally non-native there.  I wonder if habitat invasion harming local
species has taken place as a result?

Mark

--- Dean Endress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>    I don't understand the logic of Fisheries Management...this is the
> Pacific Coast, so we'll try & establish Atlantic Salmon here. Then
> over on the East Coast/Great Lakes they had Atlantic Salmon
> populations & instead of trying to bring them back from the abbyss
> they introduce Pacific Salmon & Steelhead.. Really bizarre how the
> train of thought worked on those ideas....


> --- Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > West of the Mississippi Drainage there should be no largemouth,
> > smallmount,  red-eye, or any other bass. There should be no other spiny-ray
> > either. And I  understand that Atlantic Salmon are native to the Atlantic
> > Ocean, not the  Pacific.





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Mark Klemick            ! GoFishGo !          [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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