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Mad fish disease?

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 02:59:15 PM EST
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Since you ran away from the US - you coward - you don't know the Absurd Hysteria of the Moment© in the US press is widespread reports of attacks by small furry animals, with rabies, on small children.  

Attacks by Disease Maddened Fish is only a newscycle away.

by ATinNM on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 03:18:36 PM EST
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by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 03:25:51 PM EST
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Nine times over the past seven weeks, the Asian transplant that can breathe air and scoot slowly over land has been caught in a 14-mile stretch of the Potomac or its tributaries.

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Already, there is a snakehead fishing tournament scheduled for July, and Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World at Arundel Mills in Hanover plans to offer a bounty on northern snakeheads -- $10 to $50 gift certificates, depending on the length of the fish.

This is crazy. The rate of capture is one every 5 days and they are already organising a tournament?

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 03:37:02 PM EST
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That article is three years old.  There was a serious manhunt... or, um, fishhunt, for them when they were first found.  At the time, the hope was that the fish was in its first generation and could be eradicated before it really took hold.  That hope has long since passed....
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 03:40:42 PM EST
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In other words, the tournament and the bounties were designed to encourage people to catch them, and to keep them rather than throw them back.
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 03:41:42 PM EST
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That's clever.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 03:43:09 PM EST
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Actually fer real and True ....

No, I didn't.

Now all they have to do is find the "scary invasive Chinese fish that breathe air and walk on land and eat everything in sight and breed like crazy" are illegal immigrant Al Quada terrorerrorists and we've got a Trifecta!

by ATinNM on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 03:54:53 PM EST
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C'mon, it's only a matter of time before the grunion make it past the beach!  Invasion is immenent!  They must be stopped!

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes
by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 04:06:07 PM EST
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So THAT'S why the Long Beach, California, City Hall is a replica of Hitler's beach defenses.

Them gahdamn gunions won't make it to Ocean Blvd.  

by ATinNM on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 04:45:31 PM EST
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No, I mean people getting Creutfeld-Jacob's Disease from eating cannibalistic fish.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 03:27:42 PM EST
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I dunno about fishy CJD, but there's also the scary dinoflagellate that kills fish after giving them icky open sores and makes people sick too.  Plenty of fish hysteria to go around.  Not to mention your garden variety red tides....
by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 03:37:48 PM EST
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Can't happen at this moment since they're being fed the ugly pelagic stuff that's pretty much all you get from the oceans these days and they don't dare showing on the shop stalls.

But I saw on french TV a few weeks ago a doc on big french fish farms that go full vertical: since the crap catches are also collapsing, they are breeding their own bait fish to feed the noble species that have a market (Salmon, Daurade, what's the english for that ?? probably Bar/Loup aslo, which you gotta translate from one coast of France to the other)

Guess in a few years, they'll probably grow their krill in clone vats to feed the feed...

Pierre

by Pierre on Sun Jun 24th, 2007 at 04:52:44 PM EST
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let's hope that's all they're growing in those vats...

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Jun 26th, 2007 at 09:25:25 PM EST
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