Comments on: Snakehead removal in Piney Creek http://arkansasnews.com/2009/03/14/snakehead-removal-in-piney-creek/ Your Source For Everything Arkansas Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02:03 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Allan http://arkansasnews.com/2009/03/14/snakehead-removal-in-piney-creek/comment-page-1/#comment-1108 Allan Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:40:49 +0000 http://arkansasnews.com/?p=30067#comment-1108 FYI - 'How the snakeheads got there is not known' is not correct. Jack Dunn (now deceased) of Jack Dunn's Fish Farm in the small farming community of Monore Arkansas (also Monroe county) imported the fish to his farm - Information obtaind reading our local paper 'Brinkley Argus' and 'Monroe County Sun' (no longer in print) with approval and paperwork from the AGFC. This is a large fish farm of several species of fish. After a short while he noticed the fish were very agressive and could basically transfer themselves from one pond to the others and were killing his other fish. It is my understanding he or posiblly with the help of the AGFC he destroyed the fish. Then, sometime later someone fishing near the fish farm caught one of these fish, thinking it was a parana (not sure how to spell it) and contacted the AGFC. Anyway, at this time there is a MASSIVE amount of resources and I'm sure mega bucks being spent trying to rid the area of this fish.. I got home last Monday afternoon (03/23/09) and the AGFC was all over my area doing the rotenol thing with boats, ATV's, Swamp buggies etc. To my knowledge my little area of the world doesnt' even touch the Piney Creek drainage system. Allan Lawless 14202 Hwy 49 Brinkley, AR 72021 FYI – ‘How the snakeheads got there is not known’ is not correct. Jack Dunn (now deceased) of Jack Dunn’s Fish Farm in the small farming community of Monore Arkansas (also Monroe county) imported the fish to his farm – Information obtaind reading our local paper ‘Brinkley Argus’ and ‘Monroe County Sun’ (no longer in print) with approval and paperwork from the AGFC. This is a large fish farm of several species of fish. After a short while he noticed the fish were very agressive and could basically transfer themselves from one pond to the others and were killing his other fish. It is my understanding he or posiblly with the help of the AGFC he destroyed the fish. Then, sometime later someone fishing near the fish farm caught one of these fish, thinking it was a parana (not sure how to spell it) and contacted the AGFC. Anyway, at this time there is a MASSIVE amount of resources and I’m sure mega bucks being spent trying to rid the area of this fish.. I got home last Monday afternoon (03/23/09) and the AGFC was all over my area doing the rotenol thing with boats, ATV’s, Swamp buggies etc. To my knowledge my little area of the world doesnt’ even touch the Piney Creek drainage system.

Allan Lawless
14202 Hwy 49
Brinkley, AR 72021

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