Hate To See This

[riverhyker]

Fishinwrench...on the lighter side you are definitely right....lol....I am from Ohio and the chain of Great Lakes where a lot of these invasives started...you should have seen my face when I caught my first fish w/a lamprey in Erie.

Most of this was caused by greed...even in our government)...everyone wants to enrich their city/area/district w/o looking at the consequences! It was found that their was a way to handle these issues by clearing the bilge water used as ballast before entering the St. Lawrence Seaway...It was also found that the sludge left in the bottom of these ships carried the "Spawn" of these invasives...A fix was suggested and everyone balked about the price....what is the price NOW to stop this? I see us either living with this or using Target Specific Genetic Engineering...or maybe a total kill....

This is what comes from things like not liking what you are seeing (like a lot of the people in those areas that saw this from the start...these communities on the bank of the Great Lakes made a lot of money from beaches and tourism, but millions more from letting those ocean going vessles come into our "inner oceans", kinda like picturing us allowing germs to spread in our inner bloodstream and invading our cells with foreign bodies.

I too am very sad. It is very rare for me to eat fish I catch anymore because whereas before it was overfishing...I see this threat cutting this off for our grandchildren/great grandchildren, slower kill rates, but possibly total kill rates. I hope that I am wrong.

[gramps50]

http://fox2now.com/2014/09/01/hundreds-of-fish-found-dead-at-st-louis-county-park/