Louisiana has a similar problem with a particular species of chinese catfish, nasty little things with no natural predators and are creating havok. We are solving the problem by renaming them and creating delicacy dishes. :mrgreen:
Very few species of catfish are inedible, most are pretty tasty. The easiest way to solve the problem is to pay people to take it out.
I saw that. Too many exotic pet owners decided to get rid of them and they are overrunning everything.
We have an asian species of catfish as mentioned earlier and the nutria rat, not really a rat IIRC but looks like one. The asian fish is literally endangering our entire fresh water and brackish water eco systems and the nutria is killing a lot of our plant structures, oh, we also have the hydrilla plant which has the potential to choke off some large swamps. Most of our problems came from the species hitching rides in shipping boats and crates, but no matter how it got here it's a major problem.
I saw an article about that, I think they have crossed over into a few of the Great Lake areas too and have the potential to be a catastrophic event. It's amazing how fragile an ecosystem is when challenged by non-native species.
Hmm. The article I read didn't mention that but makes perfect sense to me, Andrew hit us here too but I remember seeing how bad Florida got it, my city was dinged up but not beyond repair, then again it hit Fla. as a 4 and dropped to a strong 3 here. Catastrophic structural damage to pet stores would allow survivors to find safe havens, and there is nothing safer for a large snake than a large swamp.
True. What tends to happen is pests get in the holds of ships and once they dock the pest finds it's way off the ship, then it becomes a threat due to lack of natural predators. Non-native species are vicious.
