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07-12-2002, 05:39 PM
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Alien Meat-eating Fish, Can Live 3 Days Out of Water and Walk on Fins, Found in MD.
Read CNN:"Shocked: 99 alien fish snagged in pond".
Fear they will escape from Pond and walk to Little Patuxent River 75 yards away in Maryland.
Errr..anybody live in Maryland  ?
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07-12-2002, 05:44 PM
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Egads! they're heading this way! 
(I'm just a bit south of there.)
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07-12-2002, 05:48 PM
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Snakeheads are REAL cool but extremely detrimental to natural habitat, a voracious eater dumped by a hobbiest--- illegal to possess in the US although some aquariasts offer them for sale as they do piranhas...
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07-12-2002, 06:42 PM
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Sweet...I saw this on the news when we stayed the night in Virginia coming back from Maine. That was freaky. Hey, at least the hunters in the area have a reason to buy that 8-gauge shotgun they were looking at  | |
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07-12-2002, 09:57 PM
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Im in MD. Last I heard they were going to electrically shock the pond to kill all of the fish and organisms in the pond. If these things get in to the bay, it will be disasterous.
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07-13-2002, 08:18 AM
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Maybe if you don't like somebody in Maryland, you can dump themin the pond!
Apparently, China has both these kinds of fish and other fish. It should balance out at some time. The killer bees are still marching north.
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07-13-2002, 08:26 AM
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okay, so if these are gonna be a problem, why don't they just drain the pond and then scrap them all up and be gone with it? Unless this pond is MAJOR huge.
Edit: bad idea to drain pond didn't relize it was a 4 acre pond.
Cripes that is huge.
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07-13-2002, 08:26 AM
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Would eliminate the need to cool of by taking a dip in the summertime. 
That is a very thoughtless gesture on the part of the person who dumped them. Prolly thought they would never live. They may have singlehandedly upset the natural ecosystem
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07-13-2002, 04:27 PM
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"Dynamyte the pond !"
--Advice of Dr. Paul Loiselle, Curator of the Brooklyn Aquarium and an adviser to Gov't of Madagascar, who's environment has been harmed by the Snakehead fish.
Apparently, the two babies were purchased by the Croften, Md man from a store in NYC about two years ago, but dumped them into pond when their vociferous appetite reached 12 goldfish a day.
According to a New York Daily News article, in todays July 13 paper, they can be purchased in New York's Chinatown for $9 a lb. They are used for a soup.
The Aquatic specialist was quoted as saying they cannot be stopped once they establish themselves in an ecosystem. "You'll never get rid of them ."
Maryland had put up signs in the area, "If you come across this fish.[with photos] Kill it."
DOOOOOOOG
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07-13-2002, 04:42 PM
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w00t alien fish
are the FBI in on this?
why didnt htey pick up their spaceship on the hyadge satellite dishes in mexico and chile etc?
Meat eating fish 0wnz...especially if they can walk
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