An unwelcome fish.......

[MJ224]

A Dace we think. This and a small shoal of them appeared in oner of our ponds at our local Nature Reserve.

The fish were not all the same size, so my theory is that someone has added these to the pond.

Added fish are unwelcome, as they eat everything in the pond, including Dragonfly eggs and nymphs.

I suspect someone is hoping to see Kingfishers and Herons coming to the pond for food....

Not too good a photo, as the pond water is a little murky, so the subject is slightly over sharpened....

[Isac]

Why are there people of this type on our planet? The mind boggles.

[Ozzie_Traveller]

Hi Mark

I can well understand your concerns
In Oz we have an overabundance of European Carp in our rivers and waterways stemming from aquarium fish being released into the wild some 50yrs ago. But they were never allowed (as hobby fish) into Tasmania so the island was free of them ... until a decade ago when they were discovered on two large dams. They cannot have arrived other than someone's deliberate dumping of them
The Tassie gov't has spent thousands of dollars trying to eradicate them

Phil

[David_MC]

People either underestimate the damage an invasive species can do or they don't care and getting rid of them is difficult and expensive.

I do like the State of Maryland's idea for dealing with the invasive Snakehead Fish that were introduced into the Chesapeake Bay about 25 years ago. Rename it the Chesapeake Channa and encourage people to eat them.