11-04-2007, 03:18 AM
now that picture just dosnt do the florida bass justice, I mean the florida bas has longer legs, six inch fangs, wings like the flying fish so it can jump from one lake to another several hundred miles away.
but seriously, you have to concider the feeding habits of the birds, what bugs they eat that come from the water, do they feed in the water on any aquadic species?
I remember when they thought carp would be good for the environment on our lakes. they may be fun to catch and not to shabby a taisting fish, they how ever reek havoc on many of the fish species in our rivers and lakes...
It is probably best you dont have them, just think of all the other stuff that would come with the bass, parisites in the entistines... there is just so much more envolved in bringing another species in to an already existing eco system just the fish...
we got a little tiny fish called gobi that dosnt get much longer than a few inches, yet they have managed to devistate the great lake perch fishery, yet some people blaim the devistation on a bird called a cormorant.... I dont care if they do swim under water and eat perch, I know for a fact that it would take a bird that can stay under water long enough to swim 30 feet down and grab a hundred perch on a dive.
on top of which the sky would have to be full of cormorants to do the damage some people claim them to be doing...
point is, it is vary well posible that birds that exist only on your islands could vary well become extinct if something were to change on just one lake on one island...
if a single bug was reduced in numbers that were responcible for polinating a cirtain plant on the island the slightest change would be devistating..
these symbosis between plants and animals exist all over the planet,
on the upper hand you guys have some of the best surf fishing in the world...[cool]
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but seriously, you have to concider the feeding habits of the birds, what bugs they eat that come from the water, do they feed in the water on any aquadic species?
I remember when they thought carp would be good for the environment on our lakes. they may be fun to catch and not to shabby a taisting fish, they how ever reek havoc on many of the fish species in our rivers and lakes...
It is probably best you dont have them, just think of all the other stuff that would come with the bass, parisites in the entistines... there is just so much more envolved in bringing another species in to an already existing eco system just the fish...
we got a little tiny fish called gobi that dosnt get much longer than a few inches, yet they have managed to devistate the great lake perch fishery, yet some people blaim the devistation on a bird called a cormorant.... I dont care if they do swim under water and eat perch, I know for a fact that it would take a bird that can stay under water long enough to swim 30 feet down and grab a hundred perch on a dive.
on top of which the sky would have to be full of cormorants to do the damage some people claim them to be doing...
point is, it is vary well posible that birds that exist only on your islands could vary well become extinct if something were to change on just one lake on one island...
if a single bug was reduced in numbers that were responcible for polinating a cirtain plant on the island the slightest change would be devistating..
these symbosis between plants and animals exist all over the planet,
on the upper hand you guys have some of the best surf fishing in the world...[cool]
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