Bluegill invading Japan: Hated them then - hate 'em now

[Skankster]

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Those nasty critters are invading in Japan.

Todays NHK morning news featured the results from a report released last month.
(japanese link: http://www.eic.or.jp/news/?act=view&serial=8003 )

Bluegill and Black Bass are apparently invading Japan and upsetting the Eco-system here.


If you catch one your supposed to NOT THROW BACK.
(http://www.eco.pref.mie.jp/forum/land/q-a/shizen/bas.gil.htm)


Does anybody know if they have any natural/native Japanese ground fish that are bigger than bluegill? if you caught a big one you could certainly eat one of them (with butter preferably) but I recall they had lots of bones...
But that was before I came to Japan where they eat all groundfish (small fish).


General Info (Japanese link):
http://www.geocities.co.jp/NatureLand/5344/index.html

[AssKissinger]

Last week I noticed hundreds if not thousands of big fish in a river in Kure. Is this a related thing? I thought what the hell kind of fish are those? And this river is nasty, by the way.

[Skankster]

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I too have seen this phenomenon.

the news had something about it too. something about the salinization levels were too high or something.

They arent bluegill tho

[Taro Toporific]

[Skankster]

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Those were carp and suckers no doubt if the river is "nasty".

not the ones I saw. There were so many of them in the rivers behind shiodome they even mentioned it on TV.




The Japanese may have overfished Japans waters but
they have developed good fishing habits as a result.

The USA is busy overfishing Alaska's waters... with brutal practices that the Japanese havent used for years.

[AssKissinger]

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Those were carp and suckers no doubt if the river is "nasty".

not the ones I saw. There were so many of them in the rivers behind shiodome they even mentioned it on TV.

Yeah, these weren't carp. I figured someone would say that so I thought about prefacing it I didn't. Then again I don't even know what a 'sucker' is.

[khusam]

They might have been mullet. Mullet are pretty large, live in salt and river-water, and jump like crazy. There`s lots in Tsurumigawa...

[AssKissinger]

They might have been mullet. Mullet are pretty large, live in salt and river-water, and jump like crazy. There`s lots in Tsurumigawa...

Could be...


http://www.page.sannet.ne.jp/mruchida/index2e.html

You can fish the black bass,snakehead mullet and many other kind of fish here

http://www.tin-net.com/hobby/travel/19980612-kamikouchi/index.htm

I was the only guest checked in the onsen hotel.

[devicenull]