Snakeheads

[AndyS]

Since everyone is so smitten with these newly introduced invasive fish why don't we just cut to the chase and try this instead. We'll scuttle all the hatcheries, both Pequest and Hackettstown. Do away with all law enforcement since we will no longer will have size and bag limits along with closed seasons. Let people stock whatever fish they desire. We won't need fishing licenses also, won't that be great ! I'm heading to the exotic fish store, any requests ?

[AndyS]

You know what this is called, humans "homogenizing" the Earth. In a sense we are picking everything up and placing it in different spots, technically where it doesn't belong. I will say this though, in nature there is NO excess. Somehow nature always finds a way to balance things out, despite human interaction.

[ErikNJD]

🤣🤣🤣 Funny you have no problem with invasive species like bass, walley, pike that are ferocious top predators. In fact you want them to stock walleye in more waters. But here you are acting like a child about snakeheads. How about do some reading: https://extapps.dec.ny.gov/docs/fish...eadwillrep.pdf

Let page 9 paragraph 2 soak in. For almost 2 decades they have been in NJ now, they ain't doing shit. What you should be worried about is the blue cats that suck down anything and get to giant sizes. Those things are fckn up the Chesapeake bay, not the snakheads, and they are making their way here.

[AndyS]

You like so many others have a lot to learn. There are INTRODUCED fish and there are INVASIVE fish. The fish stocked over the years by our hatcheries are INTODUCED, yes Brown Trout can be listed as INVASIVE when they compete with native Brook Trout. The majority of our stocked fish don 't even spawn.
Snakeheads are INVASIVE and spawn twice a year.
INVASIVE fish DIPLACE the other fish by eating all their food.
I just wish all you closet arm chair biologists would get this through you thick skulls. The Blue Catfish are going to decimate entire coastlines, just sit back, and watch, this is only the beginning.