RE: [acn-l] NANFA- endangered fish in captivity (fwd)
Danny.J.B.Walker (reklaw01 at cobweb.com.au)
Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:35:29 +1030
Hi
me again just a little story or two as why our fisheries are not interested
in saving fish in the past two years.
as ANGFA members are aware of the plight with Mr Andrew Lo in Sydney with
the Galaxias brevipinnis he has had a housing estate stopped due to the fish
being the only population left in the Sydney area Robert McDowall is
studying the vertabrae difference in landlocked populations of Galaxias and
mentioned that the Andrews fish in Curl Curl Ck would have evolved in the
past hundred years since being landlocked.
Well my point is here in Adelaide we have a disused resivior which was
opened to public for fishing when first opened it had Tandanus tandanus
(translocated) Redfin Perch (Feral)
and the small species such as Philypnodon grandiceps and Galaxias maculatus
well to cut long story short after 15 years being open to public Gambusia
and Carp where introduced and a fishing club funded them to poison the lake
and reintroduce Golden Perch Silver Perch and Murray Cod
and the Tandanus and 2 mogurnda's just for the media attention.
our club was asked if we would catch the native fodder fish and keep them to
be released again well it never happened all of a sudden it was poisened
with out no attempt to save them we where told that the Galaxias where
plentyful in the River Torrens (which anyone who knows our river knows its a
lie)but after 140 years in landlocked situation I would think they would
have evolved
just as much as the brevipinnis in N.S.W.over 100 years well thats one bitch
I have the other is very recent.
The River Torrens in under a huge revamp building Wetlands and a Park thta
on one path you can go from the hills right the way through to the beach.(I
hope Im not boring you who reads this and I know it isnt relevant to the
general converstaion)
A friend is envirometal officer for the company building the wetland. She
rang and asked about the Catfish in the river(Tandanus tandanus). They are a
protected species here is South Australia
but she was told that as being a translocated fish just to leave them alone
and bury them in construction she was a bit cocerned because of the
protected status even the translocated are protected. I applied for a permit
to move the 6 fish that where stuck in a drying pool upstream
and set out one day to catch them before the work started the project took
three days or roughly 24hrs to catch them as Im not a fishery worker I cant
use a siene net all caught with a dip net
and the number eneded up to being 505 fish and I still think another 1000 at
least died as it cost them $1500AU an hour to stop work on the wetland and I
run out of time with the firm.
but I believe all adult breeders where caught approx 100 in number fish
ranged in size from
40mm up to big 650mm specimens even got stung by them hot water does wonders
to stop the pain vinegar is useless.
anyway I wrote this just to say what one hobbyist could do for a fish in
trouble and the first bit was just a bitch about our caring fisheries that
only seem to count $$$$$$ not the welfare of small species.
Happy Fish Watching & keep ya anal fin clean
Danny Walker
SANFA Aussie Aquatics
Reklaw Native Fish consultations
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-acn-l at pinetree.pinetree.org
> On Behalf Of
> peter.unmack at ASU.Edu
> Sent: Saturday, 13 February 1999 14:26
> To: acn-l
> Cc: nanfa
> Subject: Re: [acn-l] NANFA- endangered fish in captivity (fwd)
>
>
> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 RWLACN at aol.com wrote:
>
> > It is good to see this topic being discussed. The American Killifish
> > Association has organized a Killifish Conservation Committee to
> try and keep
> > species alive that are endangered or extinct in the wild.
>
> It's a pity few groups seem to be as organised as killi folks
> are. This is
> certainly a monumental effort. Many dedicated livebearer folks perform a
> similar role in keeping many rarer and threatened species.
>
> > None of these species are on the endangered species list nor
> are any of them
> > protected by any agency or government.
>
> In third world countries, or ones with little conservation will
> and/or ethic
> there is little one can do but their best. For many fishes
> aquarists will be
> their only saviour. Only time will tell if this is enough to
> save species per
> se, but at least folks are giving it their best shot! About how
> many people
> would you guess are involved in this program and how many people
> does it take
> to run it?
>
> Cheers
>
> Peter J Unmack peter.unmack at asu.edu
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> DESERT FISHES RULE: To boldly thrive where no other fish can make it!
>
> Australian desert fishes pages at http://ozdesertfish.base.org (don't
> forget to visit the Desert Fishes Council pages too)
> Desert Springs Action Committee at http://www.tkphotos.com/dsac/
> Native Fish Australia at http://www.nativefish.asn.au
> North American Native Fishes Association at http://www.nanfa.org
> Aquatic Conservation Network at http://www.acn.ca
>
>