Hey Dean we got Atlantics too! Bob Haering [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Endress Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 10:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [VFB] Exotic Trout Species vs. Native Trout..... --- Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what about the non-native to an area? > > 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. > > One of the most species correct things I have ever witnessed was a > feeding > frenzy of cutthoat on largemouth bass fingerlings. It was > beautiful, and it > lasted for a good long while. > > Rob ROB, I agree with you...however there is a species of Spiny ray fish native to California...the Sacremento Perch. the only remaining Spiny Ray in freshwater on the West Coast..The Glaciers killed off the others.. 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.... Now it seems we've come full circle & are trying to un-do the Screw ups we did in the Past. Thought some "Well knows" involved the re-establishment of Native Species to their Anstral waters are being 2 faced about it. "Remove Golden Trout from any place they could endanger Yellow Legged frogs(Thought now they've found out it's Pollution & the like that are offing the Frogs...they realized that Golden Trout eat invertabretes..Shit, I could have told you that 10 years ago!!!)" But when this same person was presented with the Removal of the Browns & Rainbows in the Truckee River, with the goal being the Re-introduction of Lahontan Cutthroat thru-out the system..this same "concerned" didn't want this Re-introduction to go thru... (He is a Guide on the Truckee & the Truckee is Known as a river you can get a Big Brown Trout in...go figure). So yeah, we Humans have managed to screw up damn near every Native species in their Home waters with the Stupid introduction of Exotics... Now we have to try to clean up the Mess..... DEAN.... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
