Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Gama_Feng on August 13, 2006, 12:19:46 AM
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what's this fish? My friend got it in a slough in Delta. Thanks a lot.
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Pumpkinseed
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/fish/fishspecs/sunfitxt.html#pumpkinseed
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:o wow ugly little bugger :o
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UGLY?!? I have seen $800 discus with similiar coloration/patterns!!! Looks like a great little pet to me!
I thought about starting a tank for my kids with some wild fish (it looks like that one is in a tank)...I would assume fish like that domesticate easily...how long has he had it?
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What did he catch it with? I'd like to put one of those in my aquarium. Pretty neat looking :)
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I have caught those on dries on my fly rod down in surrey lake.
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i love those things! we caught a bunch at a local lake where i used to live and kept them in our aquarium for many years. caught them using a tiny hook and worms.
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Ya I think most pan fish are easy to catch...small hooks and a little bait and your set. we used to use meal worms...little maggot things, we grew our own but I am sure you can get them from any tackle store.
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Of course we all remember the little detail that keeps us from keeping these things in an aquarium???? The law. "Illegal to transport live fish" and all that jazz.
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(http://atn.pfak.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=1106&g2_serialNumber=1)
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Ya ya ya DS...I think that law is critical to protect against introduction of a new species to a new habitat...but really, whats the harm of putting some panfish in a tank at home, as long as they can be legally retained fish and they don't get into another NATURAL envirnment then do you really think DFO would care?
PS IH8XC - was that a local fish u caught? What lake did it come out of? I'd love to put a half dozen of those in a tank at home.
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those fish gets pretty big you know -_-;
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Its not local. its from christina lake in the Okanogan.
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Gooey,
That is some screwed up logic about "bending" the law. Good on DS for trying to remind everybody that it is ILLEGAL to transport live fish in this province. Don't try and preach to the bass/perch planters and then pretend that it's OK for you to do it as long as they're going to live in your aquarium. Please don't do it, it wouldn't be that hard to drop a message to the CO's about this. :-\
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Let me ask you this...do you speed? EVER??? I regularly do 120-130km on the #1 in open traffic and on a dry road, I slow it down in the rain and I never speed in a school zone...its all about risk and CONSEQUENCES...so get a grip Bedbeeko, transplanting species from one natural ecosystem to another can cause disaster...putting a few fish in an aquarium at home can not cause any damage....really lets keep things in perspective, keeping a few wild fish as pets can not be compared to TRANSPLANTING SPECIES. :P
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its not the keeping of these fish they worry about, its when you wanna get rid of them.
#1-you may not put it back where it came from.
#2-you may introduce a new disease created in your home aquarium.
#3-its a native wild animal
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I realize that thousands of turtles, gold fish, and other foriegn species end up places they shouldnt. Bottom line is that if you domesticate a wild animal like that, its yours til it dies.
I think if people realize they can't take a fish and move it from lake to lake, then they must know they can't move it from a lake to an aquarium and back.
Laws are for the lowest common denomiator which is why I selectively follow the speed limit etc...like I said earlier, its all about managing risk and realizing potential concequences. Me keeping a pumpkimseed for a while and burying it of even flushing it when it dies...that has no real consequence which is why I would selectively abbide by this law.
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Well if i only move one bass from one body of water to another techniqually it can't do any harm because there needs to be atleast two to reproduce.
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Fish can also carry disease and parasites so moving them fro one lake to another could introduce a new disease etc. so even a single fish going from one natural environment to another may have severe consequences to the ecosystem.
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Gooey,
It doesn't look like you're going to win this one. I'm not going to argue about "bending" laws, I'm only going to ask you not to do it. Go buy some cool fish from a pet store for your kids, they'll enjoy them just as much as any wild fish you might acquire illegally.