RE: NANFA-- FW: Snakehead Advisory Panel : Report on the web

Chip Rinehart (crin_at_glassmaster.com)
Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:35:40 -0400

Just a thought.......I wonder, since Snakeheads and Bowfin would more than
likely be direct competitors, which one would out compete the other? I
don't have any firsthand knowledge of snakeheads but I know how voracious
bowfin can be. With this being said, I'll have to cast my vote on Chris'
side. This is a manmade pond. Poison it and make sure the problem is
removed.
Chip

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ichthos_at_charm.net [SMTP:ichthos at charm.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 12:09 PM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- FW: Snakehead Advisory Panel : Report on the web
>
> > Like I said they have released them everywhere else, why should that
> > pond be special?
>
> To preserve one of the waterbodies in the southeastern US that is
> flathead-free?
>
> > You could release 6 or 7 male flat heads, last time i checked males
> > don't reproduce. ;-)
>
> How long would it take the flatheads to eradicate the snakeheads? Is the
> size of the pond of factor? Would the flatheads feed on other fishes
> first,
> giving the snakeheads a chance to grow their populations and potentially
> spread outside the pond into the nearby Patuxent River? Since
> snakeheads are air-breathers that stay close to the surface, would the
> primarily benthic flatheads ever get to them? There are just too many
> unanswered biotic factors at play here to warrant fighting an exotic with
> an
> exotic. The most parsiminous solution is to temporarily poison the pond.
> The pond -- which is manmade anyway, a former excavation pit -- could be
> restocked.
>
> Chris Scharpf
> Baltimore
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