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[FrontosaurusRex]

[QUOTE=danielp;439930]Hopefully the game warden will catch this guy and destroy this piece of crap fish. QUOTE]

While I agree with you that people should not get these animals as pets, they are still animals. I strongly agree that they should be illegal for obvious reasons but I dont agree that they should be "destroyed". Its a shame that because a few bone head people released them into the wild, people now see the Snakehead as a pain is the butt as oppossed to a beautiful fish. (if you really look at it, the Snakehead is an awesome fish)
Your job sounds very cool by the way. I'd like to know the statistics of just how badly the Snakehead and other "foreign" fish affect our ecosystems.

[madugo]

oh...its the snakehead...
this is a native fish in china too...
back home we cook soup with this fish...
its really tasty and really really nutritious...
transitionally the snakehead fish soup is offer to woman just gave birth, and to people just had a surgery...traditional Chinese medicine believes it will heal the wound faster...

[FrontosaurusRex]

Freakin awesome. I hope this doesnt offend anybody cuz I mean this with all sincerity. The Chinese and Japanese cultures fascinate me. I love hearing about traditions and customs that are unique to these cultures. I was recently told by a Chinese lady that works with my wife that I "must have been Chinese in my past life" because she said that I hold and use chopsticks like her family does back home. Apparently most Americans think they are using them correctly when in fact, they are not.

[Nickintex]

Snakeheads are also native to the Philippines. They are known as Dalag, or mud fish, and are supposedly quite tasty (according to my other half).

[Darbex]

My chopstick holding is in my blood I came out of the womb holding them. J/k I am unsure how everyone else holds them never really paid any attention to it. My grandma taught me so I never thought there was any other way.

[Darbex]

Snakeheads are also native to the Philippines. They are known as Dalag, or mud fish, and are supposedly quite tasty (according to my other half).

Wow I could so take this quote and make a joke but I refrain.

[Nickintex]

[madugo]

lol...chopsticks....my family says i can not use chopsticks right at all...
i mean i can use it pretty good...but just look kinda ugly for a chinese...
and sometimes it will be kinda trouble to pick up heavy food and some slippery ones..

[danielp]

It has a slight resemblance to a salt water Remora. Saltwater Remora's serve a very useful purpose in their habitat. Yeah I agree that it is a neat looking fish. The 1st thing I notice about fish is their body and fin shapes. My all time favorite tropical is Brichardi's. The dorsal and caudal fins attached to the torpedo shaped bodies are awesome.

The fish obviously has a place in an ecosystem where there is a balance that allows it to coexist Our ecosystems have evolved in their own right and this fish along with others are unwanted guest that are causing imbalances to stable systems.

Take a look at an ecosystem chart and look at all the components required to keep it balanced then imagine one bad actor being injected into and damaging one of these critical components.

I don't have exact numbers on the percentage of impact. It's always in the news and in stuff I read. Our fisheries people are always constantly at ways to combat these problems and introduce safe ways of combating them without causing further impact to what these type guys are destroying. It's a hell of a tight rope.

One of my favorite pass times is flounder fishing. Flounder bag limits in November were reduced to two fish per day this year. The reason is TP&W annual sampling has shown a steady population decline over the last several years. Some reasons are shrimp nets destroying juveniles, females being over fished during migratory runs etc etc. TP&W are doing all they can by limiting daily catches size/length limits etc etc. We as responsible hobbyist have to do our part in supprting these efforts to keep the systems alive.

[newb]

I saw on a television program about Snakeheads that this fish is believed to have been released by a Chinese immagrant who imported the fish and planned on making soup out of it to help heal his sister back home. after recieving the fish, the man heard news of his sister doing much better already so he did not kill/eat the fish. Instead he released them into the wild in a river system near his home(which had another purpose in his culture)...a year later he read that these fish had become a big problem near his city and told authorities he felt it was his fault. Other than a huge gar fish...these snakeheads would have no real predators in our river systems. Im sure that since they are such a large fish that they must have large spawns as well. It definately wouldnt take but about 5yrs of them in the wild to become a heavy populated fish. The television show showed all of the rivers around the Houston area to be infected by this fish...but I have yet to ever see one in the wild...have any of yall?

[danielp]

I saw on a television program about Snakeheads that this fish is believed to have been released by a Chinese immagrant who imported the fish and planned on making soup out of it to help heal his sister back home. after recieving the fish, the man heard news of his sister doing much better already so he did not kill/eat the fish. Instead he released them into the wild in a river system near his home(which had another purpose in his culture)...a year later he read that these fish had become a big problem near his city and told authorities he felt it was his fault. Other than a huge gar fish...these snakeheads would have no real predators in our river systems. Im sure that since they are such a large fish that they must have large spawns as well. It definately wouldnt take but about 5yrs of them in the wild to become a heavy populated fish. The television show showed all of the rivers around the Houston area to be infected by this fish...but I have yet to ever see one in the wild...have any of yall?

Your right about how they were introduced. Have not heard about them in this area either. Would not surprise me if there were some in our massive bayou systems.

[ssrprelude]

Your right about how they were introduced. Have not heard about them in this area either. Would not surprise me if there were some in our massive bayou systems.

Don't be surprised, they are here.

[Nickintex]

Maybe Myjohnson has something to do with this. Making room for more trophs, hmmmm?

[myjohnson]

I never kept a snakehead.

I would rather eat it then release it to the wild.

[Nickintex]

I wanna try it.