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Frankenfish Caught In Great Lakes!

Started by jextract , Oct 15 2004 01:43 PM

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#1 jextract

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 01:43 PM

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#2 Dejah

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 02:29 PM

Yikes! I just read up more on Frankenfish since I was unfamilar with the species and their nasty aggressive fish.. read for yourself.

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#3 canuckdiver

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Posted 15 October 2004 - 02:56 PM

Yikes! I just read up more on Frankenfish since I was unfamilar with the species and their nasty aggressive fish.. read for yourself.

FrankenFish

oh great!!

So now we great lakes divers have to deal with fresh water piranha that can come on land and breath air???

HOLY CRAP!

Luckly, they look small enough not to ba danger to humans, but their eating habits are going to make it tough for a lot of indiginous species!

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