Re: NANFA-- NANFA in Washington Post

Bob Bock (bockhouse_at_earthlink.net)
Tue, 20 Aug 2002 08:30:21 -0400

Well, I'll let Anita Huslin's writing speak for itself. I happy though,
that I got the chance to tell people that it's bad to release exotics into
the environmment.

Thanks, Geoff.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "geoff and julie kimber" <gkimber2_at_earthlink.net>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: NANFA-- NANFA in Washington Post

> 'take advantage'?
> 'publicize his agenda'?
> 'dumped there innocently'?
>
> this doesn't seem too much like reporting to me. more like an editorial.
>
> I guess that shouldn't surprise me but it sort of does. I get the
> impression that Bob was standing up with a sandwich sign saying "The end
of
> the natives is near!" "Rise up against those who release exotics!"
>
> I would think that you were a bit more discreet, no?
>
>
> I get the overall impression that the Post reporters and editors don't
> really get the whole picture. It seems like they think the DNR is
> overreacting or something. I don't know if Md has a law against releasing
> exotics inthe wild, but many states do. If there is a law, then the guy
> wasn't all that innocent.
>
>
> Geoff Kimber
> Lexington,KY
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Scharpf" <ichthos_at_charm.net>
> To: "NANFA e-mail list" <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 7:52 AM
> Subject: NANFA-- NANFA in Washington Post
>
>
> > Yesterday, the Maryland NR began poisoning the snakehead pond in
Maryland.
> > On hand was Bob Bock, who used his American Currents press credentials
to
> > get behind the barricade and talk to officials while members of several
> > newspapers and TV stations talked to Bob. Here's what the Washington
Post
> > said:
> >
> >
> > But as the sun rose higher, a conservationist arrived to take advantage
of
> > the convergence of media around the pond to publicize his agenda: the
> > massive destruction of native species by alien ones, including the
> > snakeheads, which were dumped there innocently by a man who had bought
> them
> > in New York to make soup. But the potential for ecological disaster is
> > inestimable, some said.
> >
> > "The worst-case scenario is the snakehead gets out and spreads across
the
> > Chesapeake Bay to the Atlantic Coast and the rest of the country. It
could
> > create a wave of extinctions that would be irreversible and
devastating,"
> > said Bob Bock, a past president of the North American Native Fishes
> > Association, which has about 12 members in the area and 450 nationwide.
> >
> >
> > For full story, see:
> >
> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33772-2002Aug18.html
> >
> >
> > It was a busy day for Bob. Later that day he led a NANFA collecting trip
> to
> > Paint Branch Creek in College Park, Maryland. Stephanie and myself, Ed
> > Bielaus of Bethesda and his wife Lillian, and Harry Knaub of York, PA,
> > attended. The water was low because of the drought, and so the fish were
> > concentrated and easy to net. The snorkeling was great. Stephanie
watched
> > two snapping turtles get it on....sorta. (They were 69ing it.) And we
both
> > enjoyed feeding huge shoals of satinfin shiner by running our fingers
> > through the substrate and stirring up a thin cloud of debris. 20 species
> > were seen/sampled:
> >
> > American eel
> > gizzard shad
> > satinfin shiner
> > spotfin shiner
> > common shiner
> > spottail shiner
> > swallowtail shiner
> > blacknose dace
> > longnose dace
> > creek chub
> > white sucker
> > northern hogsucker
> > banded killifish
> > mosquitofish
> > redbreast sunfish
> > green sunfish
> > pumpkinseed
> > bluegill
> > smallmouth bass
> > tessellated darter
> >
> >
> > Chris Scharpf
> > Baltimore
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