> Boy this mail thing sure did get a lot of attn! Dont worry Gail, us folks in the
> United States have a good bit of humor about us, well at least some of us ;-) I
> bet you didnt know it would be international mail!! Good luck with you new tank
> anyway!
And I'd like to share the same sentiment... it's an easy thing to do,
sending mail to the reply-to instead of the originator....
> Now back to fish... I posted a question on ANGFA having a voice in government
> decisions or if they are even recogonized as an opinion when laws are made
> concerning fish or does your government look to ANGFA as just a hobbiest group?
Dr Bruce? This sounds like a "Presidential" matter ;)
(snip)
Roy, I think that it's hard to tar all the "pros" with one brush - you
will encounter incompetance in every profession occasionally.... ;-)
> Are things simular there or do they work harder to keep things the way they
> should be? I hear of trout and Gambusia being in your waterways but I am a
> little confused as to the extent of the problems with those and other introduced
> exotics. How bad is it
> down there in that respect? are the only clean waterways the remote ones?
'Round here (Canberra, ACT) we have a distinct lack of what you refer to
as "clean" waterways - they are "infected" with Dambusia, Carp, Redfin,
Weather Loaches, all sorts of bad news... yet we still have some natives
left in isolated spots, Gadopsis and Galaxiids and Carp Gudgeons amongst
them... Gambusia were officially spread in Australia, by ill-informed
but well-intentioned people... others know a lot more about this than me.
Oh, BTW, for the benefit of Peter Unmack - SWMBO is using my computer at
the moment, so I am using my shell account and 2400 bps modem and the
kids' computer to write this - using PINE! ;)
Regards, Andrew