well this fish owner is far from happy, I thought the UK had some pretty strange ways of going about things, until I read this in the Central New York News, the state Department of Environmental Conservation today rejected appeals from the banned fish's owner to spare the 10-year-old, 28-inch-long giant snakehead, Chris Deverso, the fish's owner, said DEC officers will pick up the fish Thursday, "I've done everything I can possibly do," he said. "They're going to kill my fish." he even offered it to zoos and aquariums, including the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park in Syracuse, no one local is willing to take the fish,
the problem arises out of the fact that when he bought the fish 10 years ago it was legal to own one, then the law was changed in 2004, Deverso earlier this month pleaded guilty in Clay town court to possessing an illegal fish, he met Tuesday with DEC Region 7 Director Ken Lynch and Erickson, the meeting was arranged by Sen. John DeFrancisco, senator or not even he could not help, he showed them documents that his fish is a subtropical fish that can't live in cold water, he also showed them the Maryland law that bans only two of the 29 species of snakeheads -- northern and blotted snakeheads -- because they're the only two that can survive in cold water, so I guess that is it then, unless President Obama steps in and issues a pardon, the fish has had it's chips!
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Do Not Mess With Fish 54!
and you thought fish were fun!
well this fish owner is far from happy, I thought the UK had some pretty strange ways of going about things, until I read this in the Central New York News, the state Department of Environmental Conservation today rejected appeals from the banned fish's owner to spare the 10-year-old, 28-inch-long giant snakehead, Chris Deverso, the fish's owner, said DEC officers will pick up the fish Thursday, "I've done everything I can possibly do," he said. "They're going to kill my fish." he even offered it to zoos and aquariums, including the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park in Syracuse, no one local is willing to take the fish,
the problem arises out of the fact that when he bought the fish 10 years ago it was legal to own one, then the law was changed in 2004, Deverso earlier this month pleaded guilty in Clay town court to possessing an illegal fish, he met Tuesday with DEC Region 7 Director Ken Lynch and Erickson, the meeting was arranged by Sen. John DeFrancisco, senator or not even he could not help, he showed them documents that his fish is a subtropical fish that can't live in cold water, he also showed them the Maryland law that bans only two of the 29 species of snakeheads -- northern and blotted snakeheads -- because they're the only two that can survive in cold water, so I guess that is it then, unless President Obama steps in and issues a pardon, the fish has had it's chips!
well this fish owner is far from happy, I thought the UK had some pretty strange ways of going about things, until I read this in the Central New York News, the state Department of Environmental Conservation today rejected appeals from the banned fish's owner to spare the 10-year-old, 28-inch-long giant snakehead, Chris Deverso, the fish's owner, said DEC officers will pick up the fish Thursday, "I've done everything I can possibly do," he said. "They're going to kill my fish." he even offered it to zoos and aquariums, including the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park in Syracuse, no one local is willing to take the fish,
the problem arises out of the fact that when he bought the fish 10 years ago it was legal to own one, then the law was changed in 2004, Deverso earlier this month pleaded guilty in Clay town court to possessing an illegal fish, he met Tuesday with DEC Region 7 Director Ken Lynch and Erickson, the meeting was arranged by Sen. John DeFrancisco, senator or not even he could not help, he showed them documents that his fish is a subtropical fish that can't live in cold water, he also showed them the Maryland law that bans only two of the 29 species of snakeheads -- northern and blotted snakeheads -- because they're the only two that can survive in cold water, so I guess that is it then, unless President Obama steps in and issues a pardon, the fish has had it's chips!
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You'd need a decent tank for one of these.
over here they are called Phla Shadow, we catch them with a bait of chickens livers, the biggest I have caught was only a couple of kilos, but in the local pond they grow up to 25 kilos.
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