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From: haake@osprey.cvs.rochester.edu (Bill Haake)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Ecosystemic Contamination
Message-ID: <3299@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 89 18:44:15 GMT
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I am partial to fish myself so here are a few interesting additions off the
top of my head:

In article <11681@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> overt@antony (Christian Overton) writes:
>
>ORGANISM                             ORIGIN                 INTRODUCED TO
>
Cyprinus carpio (carp)                Eurasia                N.A. and elsewhere
Carassius auratus (goldfish)          Eurasia                N.A. and elsewhere
Salmo trutta (brown trout)            Eurasia                N.A. and elsewhere
Onchorhyncus sp. (Pacific Salmons)    Pacific Northwest      Great Lakes
Many tropical freshwater species      Africa and S.A         N.A. (mostly in
                                                                   Florida)

The last group is another good example of how exotics can take over. In
many places in South Florida near Miami almost every fish in the water is
an exotic. Most are escapees from the home aquarium trade.

Bill Haake                      haake@cvs.rochester.edu    (128.151.80.13)
University of Rochester         (716) 275-8680