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City cancels piranha bounty as other fish slaughtered
A Chinese city has canceled a $157 bounty on piranha after people killed too many other fish in a four-day hunt, Chinese state media reported Friday.
Government officials in the southern city of Liuzhou had offered a 1,000-yuan ($157) reward for every piranha caught after at least three of the sharp-toothed fish attacked two swimmers in the Liujiang River over the weekend, biting off parts of one person's finger, state-run agency Xinhua reported.
But no one caught any piranha in the four-day river hunt, according to the state-run China Daily newspaper.
And too many local fish breeds were being killed, including in nets, prompting concern about the river's ecological balance, the head of the local fishery bureau told China Daily.
Although the bounty has been canceled, residents are still encouraged to try to catch piranha with a hook and line but not nets, Liuzhou fishery chief Wei Yongwen told China Daily.
Piranha are native to South America, and fishery officials said they might have been imported to the Liuzhou area from the Amazon region, Xinhua reported.
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How about we catch the knock out fish in the Mississippi River and send them the "jump in boat" fish back. I call them that because they will knock you out when them jump in your boat.
Those are called "Asian Carp", and are overtaking indigenous fish that live in lakes and rivers in the u.s.
...still under the influence, eh?
@Rascal what are you rambling on about?Huh?
@Obama Mama..Do you mean "Asian Carp"? They are a destructive species.
I cringe to imagine the introduction of another South American fish, the electric eel. I witnessed two cows wading in flooded Amazonia waters die from electrocution, and have heard many accounts of humans suffering similar fates.
They used the wrong bait.
Should have used Fingers.
We are the only invasive species of true concern.
Oh God, you are another human blamer type. Is there a school or community that keeps generating your type?
Truer words have never been spoken.
Why are we invasive? Were we genetically engineered by space aliens? Just wondering....
Thanks for the insight, Agent Smith.
Environmentalists should off themselves to help reduce the invasive human population.
New China Business Plan: export Piranha to China and collect $157 bounty.
Bounty...The Chinese Government should have called Greg Williams & Sean Payton for an effective bounty program
I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species and I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply and multiply until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.
Well, the obvious answer is to off yourself, PLEASE???
It is what it is.Just be glad you are not an animal.
Okay there, agent Smith. Just don't make me fight 100 of you for 1 hour or so. It was hell trying to stay awake watching that scene!
Why do you talk from a alien's point of view? Get your butt down from the sky and I'll personally make you into fish food.
Thanks Mr. Agent. Very original.
And if I can't handle you, I will call the Men in Black...
"Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet."
Now, waidaminit, Susan Sontag said it was just the white race. I wish we could straighten this up.
LOL. Bran = yuck!!!!
So you're saying the US Cavalry was invasive, but not Native Americans? Native Americans migrated to North America at some point since the origin of humans comes from Mesopotamia originally. And moms and pops stores are just as invasive to the ecology as "corporate America." And our species wouldn't have to conquer Mars for it's diamonds and gold (which you can be sure there is some since Mars is a giant rock like earth) because there's no one to conquer there. At least, not yet!....
This hunt went on for 4 days and not one was caught?
Did they not look for the fish with the sharp pointy teeth??
*Facepalm*â„¢
@Rawr:
Heh heh heh...
They have teeth like Chinks
too bad the event was not covered with 3D cameras.....it would have been a blockbuster in the U.S. film
You mean 3DD cameras...
I think he meant double D cameras.
And as smart as the Chinese are claimed to be, they never thought of slaughtering a small pig or sickly cow and throw it in the river to attrack them? Guess that dispells that myth.
Don't be ridiculous. It's Chinese-Americans that are smart. Chinese Chinese are just regular.
sike
Human stupidity, is just typical. The piranhas are in their natural environment, but since they're an incovenience for humans wanting to swim in that river, their solution is "let's kill them all". Humans are unable to respect other live beings, obvious reason of why we're almost done destroying the planet.
Piranhas are native of the Amazon NOT CHINA, some one put them there, and threfore have no predators to keep them in check.
Dr. Ruth, yes you are right, Piranhas are native of Amazon, but how they got to a chinese river? ... of course human stupidity strikes again!
While piranha do belong in water they do not belong in that water in that river in China. They are from and native to South America. I would be against a bounty on piranha to rid them from the Amazon river where they belong.
@TheOriginalMe
Agreed, human stupidity. Even when proven wrong they trying to claim victory. LOL... and not with you.
Natural? They are a non-native species, TheOriginalMe is actually the stupid one.
They aren't in their natural environment. Note that the article says the hunt occurred in China. Piranhas are native to South American, and are an imported invasive species in China. Their presence in Chinese rivers could well be doing irreperable harm to the local ecosystem.
well in all fariness China is not their natural habitat.
I'll agree, it is pretty stupid to put the unchecked predator in the water in the first place. But I do fail to see how it is stupid to attempt to remove them. I'm guessing you may be one of the "everything is stupid" variety.
*grabs popcorn*
Human stupidity is amazing, isn't it. Would be nice if people learned to read. These fish AREN'T native to these waters. They're an invasive species that someone brought there from the Amazon.
Pirahnas are not part of the natural environment in China. Read the article much?
Dr. Ruth, yes you are right, Piranhas are native of Amazon, but how they got to a chinese river? ... human stupidity strikes again!
Didn't they learn anything from Mao's great sparrow hunt? Read up on it, it sounded like great fun. Factories were closed, farmers were ordered to leave their fields, all to find and kill as many sparrows as possible.