On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Moses Fridlich <mofrid_at_optonline.net>wrote: > As a point of interest regarding milfoil invasion.... > Thanks for posting this. One of my clients as a network engineer is the local governmental agency that is in charge of the local lake waters and I'm going to pass this information along to them. It's nice to hear that there is one success story. As long as the fish are sterilized there should be little problem. A few years back they state brought in some sterilized tiger pike to control some other invasive species in some lakes just west of us. These were smaller lakes popular with local fishermen (and fishermen from the Seattle area, as well) and apparentlly they've done whatever it was they wanted them to do. The fish were nasty looking little critters with mouths full of teeth but after the second year they were being caught by the fishermen along with the local bass and crappie and as far as I've heard they're all gone now. We do have a problem with purple loosestryfe which is a beautiful flower and was brought in by the professors at Washington State University to reduce the erosion problems in the irrigation canals. Well, they certainly did that!!! They then brought something else in to crowd out the purple loosestyfe and now *that* is also a problem. The milfoil, according to a local theory, is the result of people emptying out their home aquariums into the local lakes. Millfoil is apparently a popular aquarium plant. California has had people selling piranhas (the S. American carnivorous fish) on the Internet! Florida is overrun with pythons that were apparently released from a facility that was doing experiements on them near Homestead, FL before a hurricane came through and all the snakes were released into the wild. Augmented by, apparently, people who seem enamored enough of these snakes to have kept them as pets but then released them. Now everyone is scared that cobras, which are also highly sought-after by certain individuals, may get loose and create an even more serious problem. It just gets better and better...... Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net and www.bigboxbikes.com *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jul 19 2011 - 18:52:35 PDT
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