Elopichthys bambusa is probably more or less like the Colorado pikeminnow but it
is capable of reproducing in the dam, which make the fisheries people in China
hating them for, though they taste good, they can multiply and decimate any fry
those fisheries people try to stock for their "giant pond" whose rivers were
turned into.
Tony
John Bongiovanni wrote:
>
> A good indicator of this is that when they electroshocked the pond many
> (hundreds?) of juveniles were found. There obviously was nothing
> preying on they young. Is this due to some sort of brooding behavior?
> or lack of predators on the young and eggs. You don't always have to
> have a bigger, meaner fish to control the population. Even insects and
> larvae can predate on the eggs and fry.
>
> Just a thought.
>
> John
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