and you thought fish were fun!
Jiang Zhiqiang, a professor at Dalian Ocean University, said the fresh water white butter fish is edible and is imported as food, 'the piranha has been a forbidden import into China, but some people still import them illegally as ornamental fish,' Jiang said, 'piranhas have no natural enemy in rivers in China, which makes them difficult to kill without effective controls,' Xu Xiang, an official from the Liuzhou city's water authority, the official body that acts as law enforcement on the river, said that from Zhang's pictures, the fish looks like a red-bellied piranha, Xu said a team from the water authority would visit the section of the river where Zhang was attacked on Sunday afternoon,
the invasion of alein species is a worldwide problem, take for instance The Nile Perch (Lates niloticus), the Nile Perch was introduced to Lake Victoria more than 50 years ago and has since had a devastating effect on the ecosystem, many fish species have become completely extinct in Lake Victoria, including a large number of endemic species that can be found nowhere else in the world,
returning to China, it is reported that China has confirmed the presence country of more than 520 varieties of alien species, including 268 plants and 198 animals, and microorganisms, economic losses caused by the presence of just 13 alien species, including whitefly, leaf miner and rice-water weevil, exceed 57 billion yuan ($9 billion) a year according to statistics by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
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