Post by VFR on Mar 18, 2023 15:19:31 GMT -5
Giant catfish are taking over the James River
by Rex Springston
The creatures, blue catfish, have grown in numbers and size ever since state workers stocked them in the tidal James in the mid-1970s to give anglers a new challenge. "They've gone crazy. . . . They reproduce like mad dogs," said Bob Greenlee, a state Department of Game and Inland Fisheries biologist. The population explosion shows how humans' introduction of a nonnative species -- whether catfish or kudzu -- can have unintended consequences. For example, kudzu, a Japanese vine planted in the South decades ago to control erosion, strangles native plants today. Read more.....
by Rex Springston
The creatures, blue catfish, have grown in numbers and size ever since state workers stocked them in the tidal James in the mid-1970s to give anglers a new challenge. "They've gone crazy. . . . They reproduce like mad dogs," said Bob Greenlee, a state Department of Game and Inland Fisheries biologist. The population explosion shows how humans' introduction of a nonnative species -- whether catfish or kudzu -- can have unintended consequences. For example, kudzu, a Japanese vine planted in the South decades ago to control erosion, strangles native plants today. Read more.....