Re: NANFA-- Beware the green sunfish

Gordon James (gordonj_at_fundy.net)
Sat, 23 Mar 2002 15:52:49 -0400

Check out this info on the green sunfish on the "Introduced Species List"

http://nas.er.usgs.gov/fishes/accounts/centrarc/le_cyane.html

----- Original Message -----
From: Jay DeLong <thirdwind_at_att.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 3:02 PM
Subject: RE: NANFA-- Beware the green sunfish

> > anybody remember the ruckus raised over "jeremy's catfish" that jeremy
> > wanted to release into his farm pond?
>
> Jeremy lied when he said it was his pond. It was a lake at a state park.
> Some people that knew the truth tried to offer words of caution and
> responsible behavior. Another person used the opportunity to make Jeremy
> into some kind of persecuted hero. Jeremy wouldn't come clean, and it got
> really stupid when he and that other person started name-calling and
> insulting people personally. Then that other person took his mistruths to
> another fish list where he had a more sympathetic but completely
misinformed
> audience. All this while a few people here were trying to have a
discussion
> about a potentially serious topic.
>
> --
> Jay DeLong
> Olympia, WA
> "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get
> its pants on."
> - Winston Churchill
>
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