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Re: Now Never returned to the wild
If you really believe that once a disease gets into the wild that it will be
transported just willy nilly by natural means, then why are you willing to
take chance of introducing a disease where "water fowl fly from continant
(sic) to continant (sic), turtles, aquatic mamals (sic) and other organisims
(sic) migrate from stream to stream, and most water sheads (sic) are part of
huge dranage (sic) systems that are all interconnected"?
Norm
-----Original Message-----
From: Moontanman at aol_com <Moontanman at aol_com>
To: nfc at actwin_com <nfc at actwin_com>
Date: Thursday, July 09, 1998 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: Now Never returned to the wild
>No, I was trying to underscore that we are not the main or even a major
>contributor to the spread of aquatic disiase. Water fowl fly from continant
to
>continant, turtles, aquatic mamals and other organisims migrate from stream
to
>stream, and most water sheads are part of huge dranage systems that are all
>interconnected. All these things contribute to the spread of any aquatic
>organisms much more profoundly than humans except eviromental degredation.
>Polluted water and weakened immune systems of the fish that live in the
>pollution give rise to new pathogens, It is a rare event for a pathogen to
>have a major effect on heathy populations of fish in natural unpolluted
>conditions (non-aquarium or unaturally crowded) I'm sure it occurs, but I
>doubt humans have much influence one way or another. By the way, I got to
see
>first hand this weekend a recovering watershed. I have reletives that have
>managed to buy an entire water shead of a small creek, they have been
working
>hard to return the land to it's natural condition, and cleaning up this
stream
>and it's small tributaries were part of that, it is a wonderful place. No
>trash, no sewage, all the trash dump sites have been cleaned up, and the
wild
>life is returning. had a great time!
>
>
>Michael
>
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