Rob Denkhaus
Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Scharpf
> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 7:44 PM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- Amia ova
>
>
> B.G. said:
>
> > Paddlefish are protected for infinity due to the wholesale
> slaughter of them
> > strictly for their roe. Their guts were sliced open and
> even the males met the
> > same fate as the females who may or may not have contained
> eggs and the
> > carcasses were unceremoniously tossed overboard as pure waste!
>
> A few years back, Casper and I visited the home of Ed
> "Sculpin Kabob" Scott
> in Knoxville. Ed showed us video shot undercover by the USFWS
> of one of
> these paddlefish poaching rings. It was pretty disturbing to
> see these fish
> pulled from the water, their guts sliced open, and then
> thrown back into the
> water to die.
>
> > These two events immediately ensued due to the collapse of
> the sturgeon
> > fisheries and the failure of the USSR, if I have my facts correct.
>
> Yep! There's a whole book out about it now, called CAVIAR AND
> CONSERVATION,
> which you can download for free:
>
> http://www.traffic.org/news/press-releases/sturgeon-report.pdf
>
> Chris Scharpf
> Baltimore
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