I'm wondering if the dead fish I saw were sucked through the dam and that is
what killed them.
Mark
>From: "Mike's bigred e-mail" <mbesser1-in-bigred.unl.edu>
>Reply-To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>To: <nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org>
>Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- Arkansas Convention
>Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:49:31 -0500
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>Mark -
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>
>
>...one of those weird carp species that has the large
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>mouth and the eye way down low on the head (grass or bighead I'm thinking)
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>It was most likely a bighead. Yep - they are pretty strange-looking. One
>of my colleagues here-in-UNL makes fish head soup with them. In former
>days
>when I worked for NE G&P, we would get HUGE bigheads in our backwater frame
>nets. Fortunately, they don't seem to have gotten above Gavins Point yet
>(at least not to my knowledge).
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>
>Mysteryman -
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>Yankton..isn't that where an alleged pirahna was caught several days ago?
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>has that been confirmed, or was it just another Pacu? If I recall
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>correctly, the size of the fish was mighty big for a non-pacu.
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>
>
>I saw one pic and it doesn't look nearly as large as reported. I'm sure
>it's a piranha. We have a few in our lab that are as big as the one in the
>pic. It's created a minor buzz among the local fishing community. And now
>for your entertainment, here's a post from one of the local (NE) fishing
>lists:
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>
>
>"To whoever is releasing piranha into public waters: could you add some
>peacock bass as well. I can't afford the trip to South America."
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>
>Mike
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>
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>Michael L. Bessert
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>University of Nebraska
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>Lincoln, NE 68588-0118
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>Michael L. Bessert
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>324 Manter Hall
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>School of Biological Sciences
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>University of Nebraska
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>Lincoln, NE 68588-0118
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>ph. 402-472-3999
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org [owner-nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org] On Behalf Of
>Mysteryman
>Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:01 PM
>To: nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org
>Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Arkansas Convention
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>
>
>Mark Otnes wrote:
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> >
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> > I stopped-in-Gavin's Point Dam on the Missouri River just west of
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> > Yankton, South Dakota and saw four dead paddlefish there. There was
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> > also a dead freshwater drum and I one of those weird carp species that
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> > has the large mouth and the eye way down low on the head (grass or
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> > bighead I'm thinking).
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>
>
>
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>Yankton..isn't that where an alleged pirahna was caught several days ago?
>
>has that been confirmed, or was it just another Pacu? If I recall
>
>correctly, the size of the fish was mighty big for a non-pacu.
>
>4 dead paddlefish..bummer.
>
>
>
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