RE: NANFA-- Nonindigenous fishes web site

Denkhaus, Robert (DenkhaR_at_Ci.Fort-Worth.TX.US)
Thu, 24 May 2001 09:59:19 -0500

Thanks for the link Bruce. While from an ecological viewpoint, I find the
length of the list to be scary enough, I think that the fact that most of
the species that I checked out listed the "impact of introduction" as
unknown is the even more frightening. Obviously, not enough time (read:
dollars) is being spent nationally on studying the impacts of this problem.
Since the effects of introductions are usually first noticed locally by
concerned and involved folks, this serves to really illustrate the potential
positive impact that NANFA members can have by being out in the natural
world and simply observing what's going on around them. Keep your eyes open
folks and be sure to spread the word if you see (or think you see) something
out of whack.

Rob Denkhaus
Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
"El muerto a la sepultura, el vivo a la travesura"
"The dead to burial, the living to mischief"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Stallsmith
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 7:36 PM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: NANFA-- Nonindigenous fishes web site
>
>
> If anyone asks you why non-native fishes are a major
> destructive force in
> North American water, tell that person to poke around the
> following site:
> http://nas.er.usgs.gov/fishes/
> It has an exhaustive list of species accounts of introduced
> species, and
> runs down how these species are locally destructive.
>
> --Bruce Stallsmith
> Huntsville, AL

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