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From: Arlus Farnsworth <arlusf_at_cwnet.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 10:12 AM
Subject: NANFA-- Re: nanfa V1 #1219
> >The bill authorizes a total of $90 million for the programs for FY '03
and
> >"such sums as may be necessary" for FY '04 through FY '08.
> Heck, they don't have to pay me anything at all to fish the largemouth
> bass out of the reservoir where they compete with native steelhead and
> sacramento perch for ever increasingly fluctuating water levels. I'll
> even through the trout and sac perch back. I'll go further than that and
> net out the gambusia and trap the greenies. Well, they would have to
> part with some grant money for that job.
>
> >In some cases, public concern goes beyond aesthetic objections. In
> >California, residents and organic farmers strongly opposed insecticide
> >spraying to control the Mediterranean fruit
> >fly, an invasive species that was decimating the state's fruit crops.
> Got a couple concerns about this one, I don't relish the prospect of
> being crop dusted and I know "they" / "we" spray for mosquitos in urban
> areas without any public notification. Maybe they have heard of Bt by
> now, but does it affect any other species of native insect or possibly
> displace other native bacterial organisms? Which brings me to point out
> that fruit flys are affecting commercial harvests that are also exotic
> and displacing natural habitat. What proof is there that fruit flys are
> affecting native organisms? So far as I can tell, it is only the money
> they are chasing with this one, so be watch out for where the money is
> going to be spent. If there is a stable parasite that only affects fruit
> flys strictly speaking then I would not be adverse to the use in
> principle.
>
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