Perfect example.
BG
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Phillips" <philipsr_at_chartertn.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- Bluenose shiner news
> I'll throw my two cents worth in on this one. I'm sure for some of our
SOSC
> we're not even close to having an overall picture of distribution and
> numbers. I know that in the past couple of years a whole lot of new
> information has come to light on the distribution and numbers of the
> Blackside Dace (Phoxinus cumberandensis) in Tennessee thanks to the work
of
> some of our Stream Survey Crews. I know of one instance in particular
where
> a crew was surveying in some rugged, remote areas of the Cumberaland
Plateau
> in Tennessee. On occasion in particular they happened to run into a
> landowner who had a small stream running across his property. They asked
> this gentleman if he had noticed any particularly colorful or unusual fish
> in his stream. His reply was that one thing he had noticed was that the
> usual minnows he caught in his minnow trap for fishing had been replaced
by
> some pretty little minnow that he didn't like nearly as well for
> fishing...but it seemed to be about all he was catching recently so he
just
> used them. Well, they went and checked his minnow trap and ...you guessed
> it... it had about 50 fishbait-sized, federally endangered Blackside Dace
in
> it. So before we assume that some hobbyist collector has decimated this
> welaka population maybe we should ask around and see if anyone has really
> look hard at locations and done collections to determine the true
> distribution and numbers.
>
> Rick
>
> Rick Phillips
> Kingsport, Tennessee
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chip Rinehart" <crin_at_glassmaster.com>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:16 PM
> Subject: RE: NANFA-- Bluenose shiner news
>
>
> > I agree with BG here. It doesn't do a whole lot of good to simply list
a
> > fish as protected and then do nothing else about it. Dustin and I have
> > tried to inform the DNR of some of the locations where we have found
> > "protected" species in hopes that they will do something to help
preserve
> > these fish (and I don't mean just in formalin). ;-) Only time will tell
> if
> > they use any of the info we have supplied.
> >
> > Chip in SC
> > (Home of the 2004 NANFA Convention.....y'all come)
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