Northern Pike Eradication *DELETED*

[cableguy031]

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[MSRiverdog]

That 6#, 2 and a half year old fish is interesting, didn't know they grew that fast down there. Or anywhere for that matter, they must like those Trout. YUM.

[nofishfisherman]

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I've written to the DFG and stated some examples of our lakes containing several species ranging from Muskies, Northern, LM Bass, Blue Gill, Pumpkinseed, etc. They can all co-exist without the need to eradicate the whole population of northern. It would be like the MN DNR saying that we must eliminate all Northern Pikes in all MN lakes using various methods from chemicals to electro-fishing.

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These fish can coexist here in minnesota where they are native to the area. The native MN fish are designed to be able to survive with each other. However if you were to introduce a non native species then that balance is disrupted, that is what is probably happening in this lake in Cali. The pike are not native and the other fish can't adapt to a foreign species that eats everything.

This would be the same argument if someone introduced a school of Parana into local MN lakes. These fish can coexist with other fish in the Amazon but what would they do to walleye and other fish in MN? Would you want to leave these fish in local lakes to destroy the native speices or would you want to take action to remove fish that should never have been there in the first place?

You have to maintain the natural balance that nature intended. That is why it is illeagal to transport live fish.

[markkstanley]

The big concern is pike getting into the river systems, some of which still have salmon and steelhead runs that are on the protected list. In that case pike are a bad thing as far as the feds are concerned. It is funny though how bass seem to be okay but they munch down as many trout as a pike will. The west is still trout country and those warm water spiny trash fish like walleye and pike are just toothy carp.