Touted as a miracle cure for aquatic macrophyte control, they have been
introduced far and wide.
Most people just traded their rooted plant "problem" for pea-green ponds,
dissolved oxygen depletions, and the not-so-occasional attendant fishkills.
I believe I have read that they are capable of reproducing in our larger
rivers and that young of year fish have been taken from the Missouri and
Mississippi rivers (at least).
I can vouch for the fact that they will leap seines easily (and at high
speed).
Steve Haslouer
Environmental Scientist III
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
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