You can't compare the poor Gambusia situation - they were officially spread
around to provide some mosquito eradication competition for those unsung
little Aussie heroes. You know the ones - Rainbowfish, Blue-eyes, Gudgeons,
Galaxids etc. It wasn't their fault ! They couldn't help it - some big bad
local and state (and probably Federal) bureaucrats decided they needed
government assistance, a kind of assisted passage for migrant fish ;-)
Then there's the Carp story - an entrepreneur trying to make our European
migrants feel more at home by providing them with a familiar food item to
go with their Trout, Salmon, Redfin Perch etc (not to mention foxes,
rabbits and hares and so on). How was he to know that narrow-minded
officials would want to kill them after he had gone to all that trouble and
expense - he simply couldn't bear to kill his "babies" ;-)
I don't know why we can't just import anything we want, keep anything we
want and release anything we want into the streams ;-)
After all this is supposed to be a multicultural country - why doesn't that
apply to fish too ? It's not fair !!!
And that goes for you too Andrew Hamilton ;-)
Regards,
Bruce.
Bruce Hansen, ANGFA, caring for our aquatic ecosystems.
Please visit us at http://www.ozemail.com.au/~fisher/angfa.htm
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> From: Matthew Stanton <matthews at ironbark.forest.nsw.gov.au>
> To: rainbowfish at pcug.org.au
> Subject: [RML] Sick Raptor Fish
> Date: Wednesday, 1 April 1998 3:03
>
> On 31 Mar 98 Adrian R. Tappin hypothesised:
>
>
> Yeh! I'm only polluting a little bit, vandalising a little bit,
> consuming a little bit, my little bit won't make any difference.
> Oh, Gosh, my pond of Mel. angfa just overflowed! Oh well, I
> guess they might eat some of the Gambusia or baby goldfish or baby
> carp in the local creek. I wonder how THOSE horrid fish got
> there?
>
> Matthew (in sarcastic mode)
"<<I suppose Im glad that I can now go to virtually any river sytem in
southern Oz and readily find a wide range of species of fish living and
breeding successfully. Mind you it may have been nice to see what really is
meant to be there! :-)
Just adding to the sarcasm
Andrew">>