Harry Knaub
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From: "Hoover, Jan J ERDC-EL-MS" <Jan.J.Hoover-in-erdc.usace.army.mil>
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Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 1:36 PM
Subject: RE: NANFA-L-- Amazon Mollies
> Dave McNeely wrote:
>>>>Both species of mollies-in-San Marcos are introduced -- the sailfins
>>>>from
> southern Louisiana, the Amazons from far S. Texas. The Amazon story-in-
> San
> Marcos is an interesting one. They were accidentally released from a
> traveling display of live Texas wildlife being taken around the state for
> educational purpose by the Texas Game and Fish Commission (now a part of
> the
> Texas Parks and Wildlife Department) that was housed in a trailer-in-the
> fish
> hatchery there. It is unclear when the sailfins were released -- maybe
> multiple times.<<<
>
> Dave -
>
> What year did that happen ? Doug Martin wrote a paper on Amazon mollies
> in
> the Nueces River in 1964 for the Texas Journal of Science (which I have
> not
> yet seen) and I was wondering if it was prior to that.
>
> Re sailfin mollies - I posted this once before but it may be of interest -
> A 1953 article by William H. Brown (Texas Game and Fish Commission) notes
> that sailfin mollies were accidentally stocked in the San Antonio River
> when
> a 1939 flood washed out some fish ponds in which E.E. Shiner was raising
> them. Between 1932 and 1940, C.H. Burnstein stocked sailfins in the Comal
> River. Mollies were unknown-in-that time from the San Marcos, but in
> 1944,
> mollies were used as bait and released several times in the San Marcos.
> Brown notes that numbers of mollies were (in 1952) highest in the San
> Antonio, moderate in the Comal, low in the San Marcos, and lowest in the
> Guadalupe - and associated the trend with history of stocking and winter
> water temperatures.
>
>
>
>
>
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