After fish that survives on land is found, Georgia tells anglers: Kill them immediately
Georgia's Department of Natural Resources has a message for anglers: If you catch a northern snakehead, kill it immediately. Northern snakeheads are invasive fish that can breathe air and survive for days on land.
An angler recently reported catching one in a private pond in Gwinnett County.
How it got there is a mystery. State wildlife officials said in a press release it's the first time the species has been confirmed in Georgia waters. It's been found in 14 other states.
The Georgia Department of Natural Resources, suggests:
Anglers are the first line of defense. If you think you've caught a northern snakehead:
- DO NOT RELEASE IT.
- Kill it immediately and freeze it. They can survive on land.
- If possible, take pictures of the fish. Include close ups of its mouth, fins and tail.
- Note where it was caught like the waterbody, landmarks or GPS coordinates.
- Immediately report it to your regional Georgia DNR Wildlife Resources Division Fisheries Office.
For more information about the northern snakehead, or other aquatic nuisance species, visit https://georgiawildlife.com/aquatic-nuisance-species.
Entry on Wikipedia for northern snakehead.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @05:12PM (13 children)
Another southern state starts a murderous campaign of discriminating against undocumented migrants!
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 15 2019, @05:30PM (10 children)
Well I'm glad we finally found that invasion y'all are always going on about.
Turns out it's NOT humans coming here peaceably, but some kind of super fish doing the invading.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 15 2019, @05:52PM (9 children)
It's humans too. We've just got our priorities straight. Snakeheads and asian carp mess up the fishing a lot worse than wetbacks do.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:16PM (6 children)
Break out your ARs
Stick on the bump stocks
You know where to put the clip...
We're not gonna take it...
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:36PM (4 children)
Naw, no point in shooting fish. Dynamite works way better.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:57PM
As Crocodile Dundee [youtube.com]
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday October 15 2019, @09:01PM (1 child)
Electrofishing works even better. Start the generator and net out the ones you want to keep. It's very effective, so much so that it's usually illegal. :)
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 16 2019, @02:11AM
S'what the TWRA guys are doing in TN, yep. Me, I like explosions nearly as much as that bolshevik muppet did.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by driverless on Thursday October 17 2019, @09:06AM
Doesn't have the same ring somehow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 16 2019, @12:43AM
ARs don't use clips.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @11:45PM (1 child)
What should we do with the invaders who think they belong? I'm not a fan of murder, but you trogs need to be dealt with before issuing in the apocalypse.
(Score: 3, Touché) by c0lo on Tuesday October 15 2019, @11:50PM
I'd say, deport them to the country of the cultural origins.
Like, you know, get almost the whole US population back into UK, Italy, Spain, Russia and so on, it was them that invaded most recently.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:54PM (1 child)
I would have went with a teaching evolution in public schools joke.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 16 2019, @01:24AM
The joke would not have worked. It is illegal to teach evolution in Georgia. Plus, evolution has nothing to do with buying/using cell phones, so they have no reason to teach that anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @05:15PM
Godzilla's offspring!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @05:43PM (3 children)
"m-kay" ... continues by killing 'em by the mouthful.
(Score: 2) by Hartree on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:41PM (2 children)
It's been suggested as a solution to the Asian carp problem in Illinois rivers.
Pass the tartar sauce.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday October 15 2019, @10:33PM
I think we have Grass Carp here, introduced by selfish bastards who want to fish them.
Of course they out-compete everything native and destroy whole ecologies, but at least some arseholes get to fish for them.*
As far as I am aware they taste like mud.
* I have no problem with people fishing for sport, or food, in fact I quite enjoy it myself.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 16 2019, @02:15AM
The guys in TN went whole hog and made unlimited commercial fishing for them legal by pretty much any means that's not going to kill a bunch of other fish. This might be a very good approach. There are already folks rigging up to go full blast on them because they export to Asian markets so well.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @05:49PM
Pythons to the rescue, One invasive species against the other
Pythons can’t catch fish in the water but can on land
http://www.gpb.org/news/2014/04/25/invasive-species-burmese-pythons-may-be-slithering-up-to-a-backyard-near-you [gpb.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:02PM (24 children)
How exactly do they expect people who aren't familiar with fish species to decide whether a fish is going to survive out of water? Oh, wait, you reckon they're going for a variation on the old "pitch her in the pond to see if she floats" witch test?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:14PM (9 children)
Aren't most fishermen knowledgeable about fish species? Oh wait... Georgia. They'll probably thing it's a salmon and eat it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:23PM
That's a good way as any to kill it, so I don't see the problem with that.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:38PM (7 children)
Most fishermen aren't as dedicated as me, even around the south. I can't count high enough to say how many times I've heard someone call a bluegill a perch, when they're entirely different species and don't even sort of look alike.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday October 15 2019, @07:09PM (6 children)
Calling a redear sunfish a bluegill and vice versa, that I could grasp. Calling a crappie a perch, they're not alike but at least they have the same very rough shape. Mistaking a white perch for an immature striper, meh. But calling a bluegill a perch? Hmm. Do they use the term just as a generic for panfish?
If light is bad or vision is failing I'd think one would sooner mistake a snakehead for a gar. I guess the snakehead makes good eating.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 15 2019, @07:30PM (5 children)
A generic for sunfish. Weird, right? Bluegill, redear, green, doesn't matter. I mean, bream would be fine since we at least don't have proper bream in the US but we have yellow perch in the same damn lakes.
I know a lot of old black guys who dig the shit out of them some gar. Apparently you gotta pressure cook it like salmon so the bones soften up. Me, I don't eat anything I can't fillet. Or black bass of any variety.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday October 15 2019, @08:39PM
Don't know that I've ever tried much that can't be filleted, and know I've never made any for myself. Heck, I haven't even tried Asian Carp. I'm curious enough to try, though.
This sig for rent.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday October 16 2019, @12:48AM (3 children)
What makes you think you need to pressure cook salmon? The only time I hear of that being done, is when people are canning it.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 16 2019, @02:16AM
"like how salmon is pressure cooked" rather than "like how salmon must always be pressure cooked". Good old English.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Wednesday October 16 2019, @02:55PM (1 child)
Pressure cooking salmon? Ick. I've had it smoked, grilled, pan-fried, and baked, but never pressure cooked. Interesting.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday October 16 2019, @07:10PM
I've had some home smoked and then home canned salmon that would blow your socks off. Home canners should definitely use a pressure cooker when doing meat.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:19PM
If the fish floats, it's probably dead. But to make sure, drop a house on him
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 5, Funny) by Hartree on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:39PM (2 children)
It's easy. If you leave it out of water and it dies, you don't have to kill it. If you leave it out of water and it lives, you have to kill it.
What could be simpler than that?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:44PM (1 child)
Some kind of reverse witch?
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday October 16 2019, @08:53PM
It's aquatic, so more of a fish-witch. Definitely make sure you bring tartar sauce.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:42PM (3 children)
It's simple. You turn off the water and start draining the lakes, ponds, and let all the rivers run out to sea. Then all the fish will be floppin about on the river and lake beds. If the fish is dying then it's a good fish, if it just looks bothered that the water's gone, then it's a bad fish. Then you put the good fish in fish tanks and you whack the bad fish across the head until there ain't nothin left. Once that's done, you turn the water back on, put the good fish back, and everything is as right as rain.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday October 15 2019, @06:52PM (1 child)
Sound plan.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Tuesday October 15 2019, @10:18PM
Think of how many workers it would take to build, run, and maintain the infrastructure for such a plan.
We would have to increase immigration just to fill all the jobs!
On the ecological side however.........
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Wednesday October 16 2019, @08:04PM
I'll take care of draining the waterways.. but you have to turn off the sky and groundwater.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Tuesday October 15 2019, @08:57PM (5 children)
When you get a fishing license you get a 4-color printed magazine that lists the season dates, creel limits, and stuff like "This is a snakehead, kill it." IIRC it also has a bunch of warnings in it about zebra mussels and Asian carp.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 16 2019, @02:20AM (4 children)
I do, sure. Not everyone bothers to pick one up though. Everywhere that sells licenses in most places I've fished has them in a stack for free by the cash register where you get your license but they don't beat you about the head and shoulders until you read it, so a lot of people don't.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Wednesday October 16 2019, @02:47PM (3 children)
I always get one because the deer season dates are constantly moving around.
We've found our first cases of CWD here in Tennessee. :(
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 16 2019, @08:26PM (2 children)
Yeah, the TWRA's been posting about them on FB all year. Mostly down in the southwest bit of the state, aren't they?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by ElizabethGreene on Wednesday October 16 2019, @09:35PM (1 child)
Yes. Shelby county and the counties that touch them. They have opened up the limits to encourage hunting in that Region in hopes of driving the population down. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Wouldn't the increase in available territory encourage more deer to migrate in and bring CWD along for the ride?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 16 2019, @11:03PM
Probably. People generally screw nature things up when they figure nature has it wrong and try to fix them.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @07:08PM
From the Wiki article: "A man admitted having released two adults, which he had purchased from a New York market, into the pond." That sounds suspiciously like something Chinese people would do.
They liked the fish back home, maybe it is supposed to make them hard or something, then they release it here. Consequences be damned. Because they will be borne by others.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @09:10PM
This is all I needed .. "Northern snakeheads" .. I knew *exactly* who they were talking about, and now its open season on the PMO (Project Management Office), by government decree!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @10:12PM (3 children)
At one time kikes were let in and they thrived, making the place much richer than it otherwise would have been. They opened banks and lending institutions and charged interest and started fractional banking, and got the license to print money.
Don't mind the fact that the common hardworking man was ruined during the process and is being actively sucked dry, as put by Polish khazar jew benjamin netanyahu: Once we squeeze all we can out of the United States, it can dry up and blow away.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @10:43PM (2 children)
Are you okay? Is that brain damage of yours being cared for? It is not normal to rant about red herrings in a page about land fish.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 15 2019, @11:48PM
Bout as normal as anything those weirdos do.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday October 16 2019, @12:10AM
I suspect it's more than cared for, it's nurtured.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford