Nile perch

dogofwar

CCA Members
10 college credits for breeding them...and ten more for bringing them to the auction....and 10 more for being first in the club.

Write an article about them and you'll be a college sophmore.

Matt

Yes it is for environmental science.
 

Tony

Alligator Snapping Turtle/Past Pres
Yes it is for environmental science.

Once upon a time, there was this thing called the library.

Then the internet happened. Folks got either too busy or too lazy and decided it was too much effort to leave their house to go to the library. So much so, that libraries everywhere are now shutting down.

While this thread is admittedly amusing, it's more sad to me that you come here first to look into a topic as easily researched as the Nile Perch.

They didn't have the internet when I was in school. Do you have any idea how much of a gift this thing is for people your age? Do you have any idea how much folks my age and older would have benefited from such an invention?

Holy crap man.... Take some time away from looking at porn, playing Farmville and watching fail videos on Youtube (I'll admit it's tough sometimes). Check out Wikipedia. Learn to play guitar. Learn to type. Learn Spanish. Better yourself. It's all free and it's right there, just past all the crap.

Do this. Start with Wikipedia and the links that Rasta Fish cited. Check those out and come back with questions. Beyond the obvious issue of destruction of species diversity in the basin, there are deeper issues at play regarding economics and politics.

Read up a bit. Come back and start another thread with a specific question about the topic. Like Charlie said, we don't mind helping you out, just show that you've put in a bit of effort first. :)
 

verbal

CCA Members
Do this. Start with Wikipedia and the links that Rasta Fish cited. Check those out and come back with questions. Beyond the obvious issue of destruction of species diversity in the basin, there are deeper issues at play regarding economics and politics.

Read up a bit. Come back and start another thread with a specific question about the topic. Like Charlie said, we don't mind helping you out, just show that you've put in a bit of effort first. :)

If you get some in depth questions after doing your research and a rough draft of your paper there is a potential resource who came to speak at the club. But you really would have to be at that point for it not to be a waste of everyone's time.
 

fishman13

Members
Ok... seeing as no one is willing to help Cameron, I will try my best.

The Nile perch was brought to the United States on the Mayflower by Christopher Columbus. It served dual purposes both as a food fish as well as a hat for socialites. They quickly spread across the eastern seaboard thanks to their uncanny ability to breath air and travel short distances across land from pond to pond. This fueled the hat business as well as the fur trade up into Canada. At one point, they were hunted due to their practice of building dams.

Some justified the brutal slaughter of this fish by trying to blame the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on them. No proof was ever uncovered, though convincing arguments can been made on both sides. The general public will likely never know the truth.

In the late 80's, our own Sam Labudde went undercover in an effort to save this majestic creature. He lobbied against haberdashers across America and was successful. In 1989, he finally got his way when the United States government passed the Nile Perch Protection Act. Perch everywhere were ecstatic.

In an effort to make reparations to this species wronged, thousands of perch were relocated to the Lake Vitoria basin where they were allowed to be free. Sadly, they are again fighting for their species survival, trying to evade predatory native cichlids such as Geophagus balzani and the Eureka Jake.

Werent they brought to lake victoria to stimulate the economy there? And dont they eat the cichlids
 

fishman13

Members
Once upon a time, there was this thing called the library.

Then the internet happened. Folks got either too busy or too lazy and decided it was too much effort to leave their house to go to the library. So much so, that libraries everywhere are now shutting down.

While this thread is admittedly amusing, it's more sad to me that you come here first to look into a topic as easily researched as the Nile Perch.

They didn't have the internet when I was in school. Do you have any idea how much of a gift this thing is for people your age? Do you have any idea how much folks my age and older would have benefited from such an invention?

Holy crap man.... Take some time away from looking at porn, playing Farmville and watching fail videos on Youtube (I'll admit it's tough sometimes). Check out Wikipedia. Learn to play guitar. Learn to type. Learn Spanish. Better yourself. It's all free and it's right there, just past all the crap.

Do this. Start with Wikipedia and the links that Rasta Fish cited. Check those out and come back with questions. Beyond the obvious issue of destruction of species diversity in the basin, there are deeper issues at play regarding economics and politics.

Read up a bit. Come back and start another thread with a specific question about the topic. Like Charlie said, we don't mind helping you out, just show that you've put in a bit of effort first. :)

Just asking around. I have been to many sites and read many books. I just whant to realy nail this project.
 

fishman13

Members
Once upon a time, there was this thing called the library.

Then the internet happened. Folks got either too busy or too lazy and decided it was too much effort to leave their house to go to the library. So much so, that libraries everywhere are now shutting down.

While this thread is admittedly amusing, it's more sad to me that you come here first to look into a topic as easily researched as the Nile Perch.

They didn't have the internet when I was in school. Do you have any idea how much of a gift this thing is for people your age? Do you have any idea how much folks my age and older would have benefited from such an invention?

Holy crap man.... Take some time away from looking at porn, playing Farmville and watching fail videos on Youtube (I'll admit it's tough sometimes). Check out Wikipedia. Learn to play guitar. Learn to type. Learn Spanish. Better yourself. It's all free and it's right there, just past all the crap.

Do this. Start with Wikipedia and the links that Rasta Fish cited. Check those out and come back with questions. Beyond the obvious issue of destruction of species diversity in the basin, there are deeper issues at play regarding economics and politics.

Read up a bit. Come back and start another thread with a specific question about the topic. Like Charlie said, we don't mind helping you out, just show that you've put in a bit of effort first. :)

I know the species destruction has been devestating. Some 200 species of victorian cichlids have gone extinct because of the introduction of the nile perch.
 

fishman13

Members
Really?

No man, Tony knows his stuff. Apparently you didn't read the privious 43 posts on this thread. ;)


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Thats what the environmental science book told me. Never mind. Forget I asked anything. Just trying to get as much info as possible on this fish so I cane ace this last project for my AP Envioronmental science class.
 

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Plenipotentiary-at-large
Comes a time...

Once upon a time, there was this thing called the library.

Then the internet happened. Folks got either too busy or too lazy and decided it was too much effort to leave their house to go to the library. So much so, that libraries everywhere are now shutting down.

While this thread is admittedly amusing, it's more sad to me that you come here first to look into a topic as easily researched as the Nile Perch.

They didn't have the internet when I was in school. Do you have any idea how much of a gift this thing is for people your age? Do you have any idea how much folks my age and older would have benefited from such an invention?

Holy crap man.... Take some time away from looking at porn, playing Farmville and watching fail videos on Youtube (I'll admit it's tough sometimes). Check out Wikipedia. Learn to play guitar. Learn to type. Learn Spanish. Better yourself. It's all free and it's right there, just past all the crap.

Do this. Start with Wikipedia and the links that Rasta Fish cited. Check those out and come back with questions. Beyond the obvious issue of destruction of species diversity in the basin, there are deeper issues at play regarding economics and politics.

Read up a bit. Come back and start another thread with a specific question about the topic. Like Charlie said, we don't mind helping you out, just show that you've put in a bit of effort first. :)

Yep, someone is definitely ready for parenthood.
 

Shane

Members
Once upon a time, there was this thing called the library.

Then the internet happened. Folks got either too busy or too lazy and decided it was too much effort to leave their house to go to the library. So much so, that libraries everywhere are now shutting down.

While this thread is admittedly amusing, it's more sad to me that you come here first to look into a topic as easily researched as the Nile Perch.

They didn't have the internet when I was in school. Do you have any idea how much of a gift this thing is for people your age? Do you have any idea how much folks my age and older would have benefited from such an invention?

Holy crap man.... Take some time away from looking at porn, playing Farmville and watching fail videos on Youtube (I'll admit it's tough sometimes). Check out Wikipedia. Learn to play guitar. Learn to type. Learn Spanish. Better yourself. It's all free and it's right there, just past all the crap.

Do this. Start with Wikipedia and the links that Rasta Fish cited. Check those out and come back with questions. Beyond the obvious issue of destruction of species diversity in the basin, there are deeper issues at play regarding economics and politics.

Read up a bit. Come back and start another thread with a specific question about the topic. Like Charlie said, we don't mind helping you out, just show that you've put in a bit of effort first.

Can I steal this as my forum sig? My wife and I thank you for the laughs.

An additional option just might be to attend this:

June 9 - Shane Linder - "Collecting in Uganda, the Pearl of Africa"
Shane Linder is the "Shane" behind Planetcatfish.com's Shane World. Shane's World houses well over 150 articles by various catfish experts making it the largest such resource known to exist. Shane is also a frequent contributor to several US and international aquarium periodicals and has been a guest speaker at numerous fish conventions in the US and Europe. He is also a member of the National Science Foundation's All Catfish Species Inventory a a global consortium of taxonomists & systematists, which since 2003, has attempted to facilitate the discovery, description & dissemination of knowledge of all catfish species. From 2000-2011 Shane lived and collected fishes extensively in Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, South Africa and Uganda. He has made additional collecting expeditions into Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. In June Shane will present "Collecting in Uganda, The Pearl of Africa" which will cover his collecting activities from 2009-2011 in Lakes Victoria, Albert, Edward and Kyoga as well as the Victorian Nile and the Mountains of the Moon.

-Shane
 
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