Do Not Mess With Fish 166,

and you thought fish were fun!

Zhang Kaibo 31, a resident in Liuzhou, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region did not when he was attacked as was bathing his dog in the Liujiang River, there was it appears three fish involved in the attack, one of the fish bit into his left hand and did not let go until Zhang started to bleed, 'one of the minor arteries in my hand has been bitten through,' said Zhang, who sought medical attention on Sunday morning after the wound continued to bleed, a friend who was with Zhang at the time was also bitten on his fingers, 'it's a piranha, I'm sure of it,' said Zhang, a fishing enthusiast since he was 15-years-old. 'the piranha has sharper teeth and their eyes are red, totally different from the fresh water white butter fish that we have eaten many times,'



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.