Invasive Species found in bay

DanElliot · **Joined:** Mon Apr 08, 2002 8:59 am **Posts:** 4329

Taken from quintenews.

Officials with the Bay of Quinte Remedial Action Plan say another invasive species has been found in the Bay of Quinte.
A commercial fisherman caught a tench near the water treatment plant earlier this fall and BQ-RAP officials say that brings up a number of red flags.
They can affect native species and water quality by competing with native minnows, bullheads and suckers for food, since they eat large amounts of snails and insect larvae.
Tench are typically dark olive to pale golden tan, with a bronze belly and bright reddish-orange eyes and are native to Europe and western Asia.
The fish were brought to North America in the 19th century for use as a food and sport fish and could have been introduced here by someone using them as live bait
If you catch or see a tench, you should contact the Invasive Species Hotline.
You can find that information at quintenews.com.

hookemhard · **Joined:** Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:17 am **Posts:** 188

These are very cool fish and a very sought after fish in Europe they are wonderful table fare smoked and fried. These are also great fighting fish very similar to a small mouth. Kinda excited that they are establishing a niche in our waters.

biff · **Joined:** Sat Sep 10, 2011 6:30 pm **Posts:** 451

http://blogs.northcountrypublicradio.or ... e-problem/

teppy · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2018 10:09 am

Good read Biff...

No invasive species is welcome in our waters!!!

You want to angle for them... go to their native waterways.

We should be doing more to protect our waterways.

Teppy

Bobber · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2018 2:48 pm

hookemhard wrote:

These are very cool fish and a very sought after fish in Europe they are wonderful table fare smoked and fried. These are also great fighting fish very similar to a small mouth. Kinda excited that they are establishing a niche in our waters.

This is very disappointing thinking.
Invasive species are never an exciting thing.... is miss-lead thinking of this sort that leads to the introduction of invasive species in the first place.

Bob

Fry Flier · **Posted:** Sat Nov 03, 2018 6:06 pm

Thanks for the info Dan.

hookemhard wrote:

These are very cool fish and a very sought after fish in Europe they are wonderful table fare smoked and fried. These are also great fighting fish very similar to a small mouth. Kinda excited that they are establishing a niche in our waters.

No comment just "WTF" shaking my head and going "hmm"

naturenut · **Joined:** Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:25 pm **Posts:** 96

hookemhard wrote:

These are very cool fish and a very sought after fish in Europe they are wonderful table fare smoked and fried. These are also great fighting fish very similar to a small mouth. Kinda excited that they are establishing a niche in our waters.

Wtf! I’m with the others on this...no invasive is cool to have in our waters. Maybe they will displace the smallies and ruin our ecosystem and destroy smallmouth tournies from happening if they establish like you’re excited for? That to me isn’t something to be excited about.

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jkd24 · **Joined:** Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:34 pm **Posts:** 386

I second the wtf is that all about ..

D-wayne · **Posted:** Mon Nov 05, 2018 8:19 am

biff wrote:

http://blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org/allin/2017/07/08/tench-can-live-anywhere-and-will-eat-anything-and-thats-the-problem/

Ahhhh. OH NO ANOTHER INVADER
But wait now, they are brought here on purpose and they are cultivated as a food source. Once again our lack of foresight has proven to provide us with issues that are far reaching and disruptive.
Unfortunately the question is not prevention as they are here. The question is "what to do with them"?
History is full of how human intervention such as poisons have failed miserably.
So what can the average angler do to help keep the numbers of these creatures in check?
Does Mr. Hookem have a point???
Promot how tasty they are and maybe they will disappear similarly to the way the smelt runs have vanished???
If Cormorants were better tasting than chicken, I wonder if there would be any issues from the overpopulation of these birds?

This is another chapter of the seemingly endless story of invasive species.
Just think of the person who has exotic pets, then because of boredom or inability to control the oversized creature decides to to the "human" thing and releases the pet into the wild or the backyard....

As un-politically correct the saying holds so true

"You can't fix stupid"

PhilandJay · **Joined:** Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:56 am **Posts:** 31

https://dr6j45jk9xcmk.cloudfront.net/do ... 104412.pdf

Have a read. From the Ontario government website.

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