I think you should do a video focusing at least in part on the bowfin, they’re an absolutely fascinating fish that is very under-known among fish enthusiasts.
@@joshszooofanimals5416 there's one place near home western PA loaded with bowfin. Part of people thinking that they are invasive also comes from the species resurgence as waterways have been cleaned from pollution.
Lionfish and various asian carp. You could also do a whole video on just the invasives in Florida. Also invasive aquatic plants might be something to consider.
I don't know what is the problem with eating silver carp tastes good you can eat it , or be exported to places like India. But you are converting it into fish fertilizers .
@Mike i live in Illinois you can't go up the Illinois without them jumping and hurting you a man was killed when one hit him its not a joke up here there's no bass no bluegill just carp
@@yakamarezlife yeah I hear you, I think what she was trying to say is it could be eaten and sold for consumption with targeted fishing instead of throwing them away as a way to quickly bring down the carp population as there is incentive and profit to be made, saving the river in the process.
Awesome video! I know lots of people are commenting on other invasive species and that's great, but I think you really nailed some of the most problematic ones. And special thanks for reminding people that BOWFINS ARE NOT SNAKEHEADS. Leave these poor innocent guys alone!
This is one of the reasons I love bow fishing so much, I've been pretty successful at getting quite a few snake heads and a couple other harmful species near me
Nice video. I'm very familiar with the invasiveness of Plecos. Many parks here in Southern California have Plecos as well. Particularly a place called Balboa Park. The small lake for fishing and the LA River and other creeks around it also have alot of Plecos. Park rangers have told several fisherman that if they're caught to please dispatch and throw in the trash. It's a sad sight but it is what it is.
@@michaelscott7498 alot of people have told me this. However the waters here where you find them are heavily polluted so I would rather not risk getting sick.
Mosquito Fish can also live in pure salt water. In Hawaii at the Ala Moana Beach Park there are ponds with Mosquito fish living there in pure salt water.
My city has an artificial lake full of mosquitofish, because we have Dengue outbreaks almost every summer. I got some out with a net and placed them in a tiny fishtank back when I was younger and had no idea what I was doing. Almost no mortalities. I had to put them back into the lake because they reproduced so fast it was getting out of hand. I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out mosquitofish can survive nuclear blasts just like cockroaches.
We had an albino clarius, a walking catfish. It was voracious. My dad kept moving it to larger tanks thinking he’d not attack fish many times its size. Lol. Eventually he went into solitary confinement.
I had a walking catfish that I caught in a canal in Miami. I put in my back yard pond. One night during a storm I looked out the back door and saw it walk away.
@@ekosubandie2094 he was in there for years. I guess he just wanted to move on. I didn’t even realize that it was a walking catfish until I saw it walking across my deck.
I've watched the walking catfish in Tampa after some kids told me about it. If I had been drinking, I would've quit immediately and driven myself to the VA hospital for treatment! LOL
@@MoneyPrint007 They definitely are. They effect specifically Brook Trout in the east and Cutthroats in the west. Here in Utah they've been going through and clearing them from creeks and rivers and reintroducing native Cutthroats.
@@kevindifranco3494 no it’s not they’re invasive still in the us and the ppl here where I live have been asked to catch and dispatch as many as possible
Common Carp are native to Ontario since they were introduced in 1821 and have made a balanced relationship with the environment and are protected in my country.
This is a good video idea bro! But could you continue the largest freshwater fish videos too? There are so many more fish out there. I love that series and I'm sad that you announced that you're going to stop it
i'll keep it going but i'll probably be doing less of them as a lot of the other large freshwater fish are around the same size but i'm glad you like the videos
@@TsukiCove But I think there are many that can grow to over a meter which is actually quite large. From where I am from, we have the Oxyeleotris marmorata and the Wallago attu. Maybe these can be some inspirations for your next video, mate
We do like our trout/fly fishing in New Zealand though. We have amazing places and backcountry rivers now with very big trout that B.C (Before Covid) people would flock to so they could come fishing here. We have entire towns that solely run on fly fishing and trout fishing. As a young kid through covid times I have just been brought up to fly fishing, and it is nice to see the rivers have little pressure, but we need the people coming back soon.
I actually used to own a Pleco fish when I was young . It was a gift from a family friend who owned prior but the fish ( I called it Martin) outgrew it’s original tank so my family and kept it until it passed away. And it was huge too
once i was going fishing with my uncle, we found a pretty cool spillway with bowfin, but I saw a lot of dead bowfin around the shore of the creek, I found at least 20 skulls of bowfins
@@guppy719 being more widespread does not mean more destructive.carp are less destructive cuase they have more things stopping them like carp pox and their young are easy prey due to lack of defense.they are also docile. Tilapia is on the other hand have no diseases that really keep them in check.tilapia young are protected by their mother.tilapia are also aggerrssive and will kill other fish esipceally during breeding cuase they are African cichilds. Also has for the eating part.not really true.poeple avoid tilapia in certain lakes cuase they taste like mud depending on the environment.
Florida is POLLUTED with invasive species. That's what happens when stupid ignorant people get pets and then turn them loose into local rivers, lakes, and streams. I bet there are some rivers, in Florida, that have pirahna in them also?
I recently built a pond and got 5 Pleco suckerfish at maybe 1 1/2 in size. In maybe 3 months or less the 4 black ones are at 6 to 8 inches. I sold 2 to other pond owners and asked that if they get too big, to NOT toss them in a river but to either find a new home or destroy them. The white suckerfish seems to be a dwarf and only got to maybe 3 inches. I had 4 feederfish breed and now i have like 100 of them. Many lost to the filter. But now i got 1 African Clawed frog to hopefully bring down their populations. My Koi seem to not care about them. Its amazing how a 6 month old pond with the right conditions can just explode with life so easily. Some un responsible people tossed suckerfish in the San Antonio river here and you could see 1 footer or bigger ones on the boat ramps. The big freeze last year I think killed off a lot of them. But people need to be more responsible for sure.
The largemouth bass is a native species to North America, but I suppose they have been introduced on other continents because people like to fish for them?
Tennessee has a ton of invasive species issues, which really hits the feels hard for someone who loves aquatic life like me. We suffer from practically every single pest on this list. Mosquito fish, snakeheads (even the giant snakeheads have been spotted), brown trout are here but they're naturalized as far as I know, although luckily plecos never become a problem since they can't survive Tennessee winters
There is one river in New England where Brown Trout are rather important. The Housatonic River had been a big illegal dumping spot for PCBs a very harmful toxin for the environment which wiped out a lot of the native fish in that river. But when Brown Trout were stocked there and were able to tolerate PCBs they filled a big niche in that rivers ecosystem and has kickstarted a big reintroduction process of other fish in the river
The other day I was walking next to a small river that is in another city where I am going to buy fish in fact, the question is that I saw the typical thing as always, kinosternon turtles, mozquito fish, tilapias, green frogs (I am from Mexico because of true) but suddenly I saw some fish that caught my attention, they were koi, not common brown carp that I also see sometimes, they were koi carp of many colors, there was an orange with black spots, a platinum color and a yellow color , but well after taking a couple of photos and videos (I would show them but they went wrong, I'm sorry), I went to my usual store and talking with the owner about what I saw, he told me that in fact there are many more and that right there A koi with super large butterfly fins has lived for many years, plus they have seen a lot of red-eared turtles (they are invasive too).
Plecos have destroyed all the waterways around lake Okeechobee here in florida. Tried going fishing last week and there were plecos as far as you could see into the water
Spear fish the bastards and eat them. I truly believe in " If you can't beat them, eat them". If we stop being picky about our fish we as a community can get them under control. Ever ate a lion fish it's better than mangrove snappers, snake heads are a amazing white fish and plecos when over a foot are great on tge grill just gut put some butter ,garlic,and lemon in the cavity head on skin on lay them on there backs and grill. They are there own cooking vessel. Easy to peel once cooked and nice firm white flesh. 👌
Those walking catfish we used to catch in the ditch in Florida, my friend had a few that got huge but we called them mud catfish and they called these armored catfish that look like a giant Cory “walking catfish”. But I gotta say 20 inches is almost a baby pleco if it’s in the wild, those guys were all over the river closer to 3 feet
Brown trout is not the problem for the reduction of the native whitebait fish in New Zealand. The reduction is mainly tied to the loss of wetlands as the galaxids lay their eggs on vegetation in the spring high tides. The eggs hatch the following months high tides and are swept out to sea, where they grow for a few months before returning to the rivers to live as adults. Flood control has reduced the suitable habitat for this. Brown trout numbers here are kept under control as a prized sporting fish. 👍🏻
@@deborahminter6231 There are many varieties of Gambusia and some have successfully bred with more wild type Guppies than with Fancy types.13 July 2017
What do you know about Apple Snails? In Southern Louisiana USA, they are now everywhere in the swamps & bayous. Their pink eggs are everywhere you look.
I feel like putting walking catfish over things that have a legitimate negative impact on ecosystems overall just because their presence is expensive is a showcase of unusual priorities.
I think armored catfish n tilapia seem to the most problem invasive, whenever they are there seem to be no other fish around, they will dominate the area n they are everywhere now
I'm Florida the armored catfish is a big problem indeed, I don't know about tilapia tho, peacock and largemouth bass seem to keep their numbers in check.
It’s rock bass in my area. They were introduced to only a few certain waterbodies years ago, and now you can’t go to a single pond or stream without them constantly stealing your bait and choking out native species
Yeah Seriously Commons are in pretty much every body of water in the U.S.A and make the water dirty without having the benefits of brown trout. The Video was pretty U.S.A centric but thats what you would expect I suppose.
@Andrew (Esara) Holst conman carp aren’t invasive also brown trout have little to no affect on anything mainly positive to be fair they eat a lot of gobies so it help the us and stuff
The brown trout in Australia are absolutely loved not so much by green but they kept in check by our weather not to mention the brown trout farming funds lots of our native stocking programs in Australia
@@TsukiCove yeah dude throughout Victoria new south whales and Tasmania. Brown trout rainbow trout cheetah trout tiger trout and brook trout with salmon farmed in Australia helps fund the Murray cod, golden and silver perch stocking. I have mates working in some hatchery sun nsw and I’m a fly fishing guide for both aus natives and trout but I much prefer trout
I fish a creek in Virginia exclusively for its northern snakehead population. There are some studs in there and they really do visciously protect their fry which makes for some high octane action. All that said though there are several other species in that creek with them that we catch that are all super fat and healthy. The snakes don't seem, at least in my limited experience, to cause much of a problem. I also realize that every body of water is different and just because all the fish there are doing just fine doesn't mean it's like that everywhere.
Hello, proper clip like always :) about the invasive species, in Poland, where I come frome, and I think in big part of continental Europe, there a problem with bullhead catfish. They grow much smaller size than in US, but its plenty of them in some areas. Becouse of they breeding habits (nest protection), they breeding well in Europe, and becouse of they defense mechanism (venom glans connected to spike on they fins) , there are not many predators wich hunting them. They proof for a poor water condition and lack of oxygen, . On lot of places where I was fishing in Poland, they are most often fish on hook. Sorry for my English, I'm not native speaker
Bullheads don't get very big even in the US, maybe you're thinking of Blue/Channel/Flathead Catfish, which do get huge? That's also interesting to know, I was not aware that Bullheads are invasive anywhere.
@@michaelwilkinson5393 Hello, I meant brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulous). Following Wikipedia: "Adult brown bullheads range in size from 200 to 500 mm (7.9 to 19.7 in) and weigh between 0.5 kg (1.1 lb) and 3.6 kg (7.9 lb) (in extreme cases)." Polish Wikipedia saying, the in Europe they reach max size about 30cm (12 in) and weight 200g/0.2kg, which is about 0.4 lb. Biggest which i caught was about 20cm (8 in), i heard about bit bigger caughtes, but it's really rare. Again following Wikipedia, in 1885th some German guy introduce them to his ponds in North West Poland (that time was German territory), and been introduced to few other places after. That was found as a fail, becouse they was growing smaller than in America, so show up small angling and fish farming value, wich was the reason of that introduction. From that time's they start to spread they range in Europe naturally, now they recorded from several countries, mainly central, East, and south-east Europe, they range is pathy, but on some places where they get, they occurred in huge amounts, often become dominant species in some bodies of water. They treat as a pest, becouse they a concurrent for native species, and feed on they spawn and fry. Even in Polish angling license, there is a note, the in case of caugh bullhead, few other invasive species of fish, and two species of Americans crawfishes, your not allowed to release it back where you caught it, or to any other natural body of water. About channel catfish, i heard, there is some population in Europe, in some part of Italy, if I remember correctly, but I have no any closer knowledge about it
@@michaelwilkinson5393 By the way, there are common conviction between Polish anglers, the reason of that massive occurrence of bullheads in places where they got in, its becouse of they venomous spines on pectoral fins, and becouse of that predators don't prey on them. That make sense, becouse, as far i know, there are no native freshwater European fish wich have that kind of defence mechanism, frome other poit of viev, we have a lot closesly realeted species between North American and Europe, if they close american cousins prey on them, europians equivalents should be able to do it too. I wonder about what prey on them in America, and opinion about it from you, and others American vievers
I'm very surprised about brown trout. But on the other hand, a lake in Connecticut has a history of being stocked with brown trout. I've heard a story that when the state first began stocking the lake, the native chain pickerel was killing and eating a lot of the stocked brown trout, which made the state decide to have a special fishing event that involved keeping and eating tons of chain pickerel from that lake in order to make stocking brown trout successful. A fish I'm surprised you didn't include is the Asian Carp Sad to see people are easily mistaking the native bowfin for the invasive snakehead
Yeah, some of the stocking programs in Eastern States are real head-scratchers. Most of them are blessed with cool, fast-flowing streams that can support trout species (as long as they aren't poisoned or polluted), but they choose to stock these fish into ponds and lakes? And other states in the East that have terribly polluted streams - like West Virginia and Pennsylvania - dump thousands of trout, each year, into streams that are otherwise dead. If a body of water won't even support minnows or crayfish, then you know that the trout probably don't live longer than a few weeks.
Anyone that lives where chain pickerel were introduced knows how devastating it is to the native fish… Those fish have ruined trout fishing where I live, the trout are pretty much gone forever.
It was quite astute of you to show a picture of Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor when you mentioned the invasiveness of the snakehead. In 2002, the snakehead was first discovered in a pond in Southern Maryland; but today, it seems to be prevalent in most large bodies of water in the state ... so much so, that many anglers now actually fish for them. I moved away from Maryland in 2004, but I still tell all of my friends, who live there, that they should kill every snakehead that they catch.
Common Pleco are also huge problems in Thailand too. Gladly, in Thailand we learn they are edible and eat them. We have created lots of ways to cook them. But still, they are still thriving.
These pleco are bycatch after fisherman catch whatever fish they want. They mostly sent to industry fish meal to make fertilizer and grounded fish meal. As also, their tasty meat are often easy to eat with a few cracks and open.
Up here in washington Common Placo and other in the family is huntable and able to be caught and kept . No size limit and only 10lb weight limit a day.
I used to volunteer at an aquarium in Biloxi MS and we had a snakehead for a while, which I think someone had surrendered. I remember that it ate voraciously and grew fast. I always felt that fish had a sad, "don't judge me for who I am" expression. The aquarium applied for a permit to keep it but was denied and eventually euthanized it by freezing.
Here in Maryland the DNR has added flathead and blue cats to the Kill List along with snakeheads. All three are invasive and only the white catfish is native, though I think that channel cats may be native to western Maryland. Any and all that are caught are to be destroyed, but luckily all three are tasty so at least they don’t have to go to waste.
Largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and Asian and common carp species are probably the worst everywhere they have been introduced outside of their native range in my experience.
In Turkey we have similar problem . Sunfish, walking catfish, mosquito fish, crassius these are some of the invasive fish. Common carp, barbel, catfish, chub, bream effected by them.
Bowfin is not the only victim of snake head misidentification.. the Burbot, also known as the eelpout is also a North American native that looks like the Bowfin. Sadly many people have a whole other hate with the Bowfin. Meaning they don't have any love at all for the Burbot. The Burbot is a ice fishing delicacy that has given the Burbot its other nickname "freshwater cod"
"The Mosquitofish have saved us!"
"Oh, I wouldn’t say saved. More like, under new management."
It really is unfortunate that bowfin are being confused for snakeheads. I love bowfin so it’s really important to know the differences.
Agreed, I love the fight you can get with them, and they are a pretty unique fish all around.
I love Bowfin, they are my favourite fish. I have a 15 inch bowfin from the super market and have a channel about him and he is doing great.
Bowfin are so cool looking. Only a fool would confuse them for a snakehead.
True
Snake head tates good
I think you should do a video focusing at least in part on the bowfin, they’re an absolutely fascinating fish that is very under-known among fish enthusiasts.
Absolutely lol I caught a state record one in Pennsylvania
the bowfin is definitely one of my favourite fish, I'm sure I can find a way to work them into another video
@@TsukiCove who tf asked
@@joshszooofanimals5416 there's one place near home western PA loaded with bowfin. Part of people thinking that they are invasive also comes from the species resurgence as waterways have been cleaned from pollution.
But snake head is way cooler though
You should do a video on all invasive aquarium fish in Florida. Oscars, clown knife fish, lion fish, etc.
There’s WAAAAAYYYY too many
Lmaoo theres Oscar's and Clown knifes in Florida. How many retards are there setting fish free
@@fishfan2 Probably A Lot And There Is Also Mayan Cichlids And Even Pacus In Florida
@@fishfan2 I'm surprised redtail catfish aren't apart of that list. I see them all the time in my local petsmart.
@@OrkishEngineering 💀Poor red tail cats, imagine how many little Timmy's are going to put them in small tanks
Tilapia is also a serious invaded species. They take over every pond, lake, and stream in my hometown. Though it was inport for aquaculture.
Yea
My area has loads of them too
Totally agree with you on this 👏👍
Eat them
They muddy taste but...yea
@miebaso
Lionfish and various asian carp. You could also do a whole video on just the invasives in Florida. Also invasive aquatic plants might be something to consider.
You forgot silver, black, and bighead carp in the rivers of the US
Ehh, maybe he's saving that. Pretty sure he could do an episode or two just on carp.
I don't know what is the problem with eating silver carp tastes good you can eat it , or be exported to places like India. But you are converting it into fish fertilizers .
@Mike i live in Illinois you can't go up the Illinois without them jumping and hurting you a man was killed when one hit him its not a joke up here there's no bass no bluegill just carp
@@yakamarezlife yeah I hear you, I think what she was trying to say is it could be eaten and sold for consumption with targeted fishing instead of throwing them away as a way to quickly bring down the carp population as there is incentive and profit to be made, saving the river in the process.
Talking about the world
"YoU FoRgOt ThE CaRp In UsA"
And i believe florida tops all problems considering invasive species?
Awesome video! I know lots of people are commenting on other invasive species and that's great, but I think you really nailed some of the most problematic ones.
And special thanks for reminding people that BOWFINS ARE NOT SNAKEHEADS. Leave these poor innocent guys alone!
Def thought carp wouldve made it
Yeah Both Asiann and European aka Common Carp are big problems in the U.S.A
@@guppy719 they are fun to catch tho
Goldfish!!
@@jackdemerritt3475 even more fun to shoot!
Carp are 1 of the worst...
This is one of the reasons I love bow fishing so much, I've been pretty successful at getting quite a few snake heads and a couple other harmful species near me
Here in Central Michigan brown trout a prized by us fisherman. I didn't know they were invasive.
Nice video. I'm very familiar with the invasiveness of Plecos. Many parks here in Southern California have Plecos as well. Particularly a place called Balboa Park. The small lake for fishing and the LA River and other creeks around it also have alot of Plecos. Park rangers have told several fisherman that if they're caught to please dispatch and throw in the trash. It's a sad sight but it is what it is.
I have same problem with plecos,they destroy the entire ecosistem.
Throw them into the ground somewhere to grow a tree!
Like 4 feet?
why not eat them they are a delicacy
@@michaelscott7498 alot of people have told me this. However the waters here where you find them are heavily polluted so I would rather not risk getting sick.
Oh shit, i didnt know we had plecos in Bolba park, i may go and snag some up then for my tanks. Where in the LA river are the plecos at?
Mosquito Fish can also live in pure salt water. In Hawaii at the Ala Moana Beach Park there are ponds with Mosquito fish living there in pure salt water.
My city has an artificial lake full of mosquitofish, because we have Dengue outbreaks almost every summer. I got some out with a net and placed them in a tiny fishtank back when I was younger and had no idea what I was doing. Almost no mortalities. I had to put them back into the lake because they reproduced so fast it was getting out of hand.
I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out mosquitofish can survive nuclear blasts just like cockroaches.
Which country you live in ?
There were more mortalities you probably didn't see but they make way way more babies faster than they can eat em.
We had an albino clarius, a walking catfish. It was voracious. My dad kept moving it to larger tanks thinking he’d not attack fish many times its size. Lol. Eventually he went into solitary confinement.
I had a walking catfish that I caught in a canal in Miami. I put in my back yard pond. One night during a storm I looked out the back door and saw it walk away.
Lmfao lol
I think he didn't like your pond, mate
@@ekosubandie2094 he was in there for years. I guess he just wanted to move on.
I didn’t even realize that it was a walking catfish until I saw it walking across my deck.
I've watched the walking catfish in Tampa after some kids told me about it. If I had been drinking, I would've quit immediately and driven myself to the VA hospital for treatment! LOL
@@RealCptHammonds yes, when I saw it, I did not know what I was seeing at first.
This was very good. But i wanted more.. Full send bro
Same here lol
Yo pause on that
Would’ve never thought Brown Trout was invasive.
They aren’t considered invasive in the US
@@MoneyPrint007 They definitely are. They effect specifically Brook Trout in the east and Cutthroats in the west. Here in Utah they've been going through and clearing them from creeks and rivers and reintroducing native Cutthroats.
not gonna lie i was fully expecting carp to be on this list. perhaps a good one for a followup video
@@kevindifranco3494 giant problem all over Australia though
@@kevindifranco3494 no it’s not they’re invasive still in the us and the ppl here where I live have been asked to catch and dispatch as many as possible
@@sanokaizen2339 common carp are naturalized, not sure but you may be mixing it up with Asian carp such as big heads and silvers
@@kevindifranco3494 chilee..anyways
Common Carp are native to Ontario since they were introduced in 1821 and have made a balanced relationship with the environment and are protected in my country.
Wonderful subject! I'm so glad you are helping get the word out. I love all you episodes, but this is by far my favorite!
Brown trout the best invasive species ever lol
This is a good video idea bro! But could you continue the largest freshwater fish videos too? There are so many more fish out there. I love that series and I'm sad that you announced that you're going to stop it
i'll keep it going but i'll probably be doing less of them as a lot of the other large freshwater fish are around the same size but i'm glad you like the videos
@@TsukiCove
But I think there are many that can grow to over a meter which is actually quite large. From where I am from, we have the Oxyeleotris marmorata and the Wallago attu.
Maybe these can be some inspirations for your next video, mate
@@TsukiCove freshwater sawfish
The Pacu in New Guinea would be an excellent example of an invasive fish.
Better know as the boltcutter
@@mysteryguy2330 I've also heard it called the ballcutter
We do like our trout/fly fishing in New Zealand though. We have amazing places and backcountry rivers now with very big trout that B.C (Before Covid) people would flock to so they could come fishing here. We have entire towns that solely run on fly fishing and trout fishing. As a young kid through covid times I have just been brought up to fly fishing, and it is nice to see the rivers have little pressure, but we need the people coming back soon.
I don't think there's another channel like your's is, you're doing real good work here keep it up
Thanks fayzeee i really appreciate it and i will keep the videos coming :)
I really like the show River Monsters, and your channel is amazing for learning about different large, invasive, and deadly fish.
Love the vids❤️❤️
Thanks roman i love that show too and i appreciate it :)
@@TsukiCove no problem :)
Agreed 👍
River Monsters is a joke. Overhyped BS!
@@swkelley ?
Well at least I think its a good show. I just don’t see whats not to like about it.
I could watch these videos all evening. Thanks for sharing!!
thanks Tony I appreciate it :)
I actually used to own a Pleco fish when I was young . It was a gift from a family friend who owned prior but the fish ( I called it Martin) outgrew it’s original tank so my family and kept it until it passed away. And it was huge too
Goldfish are also a nasty invasive
Lol
@@Rajeev8888 no joke. I caught a common goldfish on hook and line that was over a foot long.
@@Rajeev8888 they can breed insanely fast and take over bodies of water they’re introduced into in no time.
And they can grow to enormous sizes outside the confines of a tank. There's some in a local creek near me that have been mistaken for koi by locals.
@@Rajeev8888 they can be invasive depending where they are released. It is my favorite fish but I would definitely recommend never to release them.
once i was going fishing with my uncle, we found a pretty cool spillway with bowfin, but I saw a lot of dead bowfin around the shore of the creek, I found at least 20 skulls of bowfins
Common carp, grass carp, African walking catfish, nile tilapia, Mekong river catfish and Megamouth carp can also be a serious invaders
Tilapia beat out carp.
Lake mead had a bunch of carp with no real iusses.tilapia were introduced and are actually destorying the ecosystem.
@@briannaharter4411 Carp are more widespread and people will actually eat tilapia.
@@guppy719 being more widespread does not mean more destructive.carp are less destructive cuase they have more things stopping them like carp pox and their young are easy prey due to lack of defense.they are also docile.
Tilapia is on the other hand have no diseases that really keep them in check.tilapia young are protected by their mother.tilapia are also aggerrssive and will kill other fish esipceally during breeding cuase they are African cichilds.
Also has for the eating part.not really true.poeple avoid tilapia in certain lakes cuase they taste like mud depending on the environment.
Mekong can get a pass
They're endangered species in their natural ranges
I have an idea for a weird and wonderful fish video:
The goblin shark!
Yeah lol
Y E S
In Australia, any cold water is full of carp and warm water is full of tilapia
And the land with Cane Toads lol
Mountains are full or trout and roach
In some of the canals here in SW Florida Plecos literally carpet the bottom.
And not just canals. They're taking over in some of the beautiful spring-fed rivers as well
Yeah the canal in my backyard has like 11 of them in one spot, it's so bad
Florida is POLLUTED with invasive species.
That's what happens when stupid ignorant people get pets and then turn them loose into local rivers, lakes, and streams.
I bet there are some rivers, in Florida, that have pirahna in them also?
Congrats on 25k tsuki 😁
Thanks Jeff I appreciate it :)
I recently built a pond and got 5 Pleco suckerfish at maybe 1 1/2 in size. In maybe 3 months or less the 4 black ones are at 6 to 8 inches. I sold 2 to other pond owners and asked that if they get too big, to NOT toss them in a river but to either find a new home or destroy them. The white suckerfish seems to be a dwarf and only got to maybe 3 inches. I had 4 feederfish breed and now i have like 100 of them. Many lost to the filter. But now i got 1 African Clawed frog to hopefully bring down their populations. My Koi seem to not care about them. Its amazing how a 6 month old pond with the right conditions can just explode with life so easily. Some un responsible people tossed suckerfish in the San Antonio river here and you could see 1 footer or bigger ones on the boat ramps. The big freeze last year I think killed off a lot of them. But people need to be more responsible for sure.
I'm assuming this is a purely freshwater list, being that Lionfish aren't present?
Lion fish can actually survive in nearly freshwater. It's been proven now, and that's pretty scary when you think of what it's already done.
How about the Largemouth Bass ? They are on the world’s 100 worst invasive species.
Yeah
The largemouth bass is a native species to North America, but I suppose they have been introduced on other continents because people like to fish for them?
Tennessee has a ton of invasive species issues, which really hits the feels hard for someone who loves aquatic life like me.
We suffer from practically every single pest on this list. Mosquito fish, snakeheads (even the giant snakeheads have been spotted), brown trout are here but they're naturalized as far as I know, although luckily plecos never become a problem since they can't survive Tennessee winters
There is one river in New England where Brown Trout are rather important. The Housatonic River had been a big illegal dumping spot for PCBs a very harmful toxin for the environment which wiped out a lot of the native fish in that river. But when Brown Trout were stocked there and were able to tolerate PCBs they filled a big niche in that rivers ecosystem and has kickstarted a big reintroduction process of other fish in the river
Not the first but awesome video keep it coming
Thanks Tissue, I'll keep them coming :)
The other day I was walking next to a small river that is in another city where I am going to buy fish in fact, the question is that I saw the typical thing as always, kinosternon turtles, mozquito fish, tilapias, green frogs (I am from Mexico because of true) but suddenly I saw some fish that caught my attention, they were koi, not common brown carp that I also see sometimes, they were koi carp of many colors, there was an orange with black spots, a platinum color and a yellow color , but well after taking a couple of photos and videos (I would show them but they went wrong, I'm sorry), I went to my usual store and talking with the owner about what I saw, he told me that in fact there are many more and that right there A koi with super large butterfly fins has lived for many years, plus they have seen a lot of red-eared turtles (they are invasive too).
Plecos have destroyed all the waterways around lake Okeechobee here in florida. Tried going fishing last week and there were plecos as far as you could see into the water
Spear fish the bastards and eat them. I truly believe in " If you can't beat them, eat them". If we stop being picky about our fish we as a community can get them under control. Ever ate a lion fish it's better than mangrove snappers, snake heads are a amazing white fish and plecos when over a foot are great on tge grill just gut put some butter ,garlic,and lemon in the cavity head on skin on lay them on there backs and grill. They are there own cooking vessel. Easy to peel once cooked and nice firm white flesh. 👌
@@ronaldowens5025 Plecos are a trash fish. They're so ugly I wouldn't even want to touch one, much less eat one lol.
Those walking catfish we used to catch in the ditch in Florida, my friend had a few that got huge but we called them mud catfish and they called these armored catfish that look like a giant Cory “walking catfish”. But I gotta say 20 inches is almost a baby pleco if it’s in the wild, those guys were all over the river closer to 3 feet
Brown trout is my favorite fish to fish for and eat
Interesting. Would've been good to see where each species was native and alien/invasive though. 👍
Ikr lol
He did for the gambuisa so idk if he changed it
(Mosquito fish)
Brown trout is not the problem for the reduction of the native whitebait fish in New Zealand. The reduction is mainly tied to the loss of wetlands as the galaxids lay their eggs on vegetation in the spring high tides. The eggs hatch the following months high tides and are swept out to sea, where they grow for a few months before returning to the rivers to live as adults. Flood control has reduced the suitable habitat for this. Brown trout numbers here are kept under control as a prized sporting fish. 👍🏻
It feels like alligators are really the US's first line of defense against invasives based on how frequently they're mentioned in the video lol
Tsuki: Mosquito fish
Me: That looks like guppies and endlers hahahhahaha
They are a close relative to the guppy!
@@deborahminter6231 they can breed together I've been told
@@maxl3189 😯 I am pretty sure they can't reproduce.
@@deborahminter6231 There are many varieties of Gambusia and some have successfully bred with more wild type Guppies than with Fancy types.13 July 2017
@@maxl3189 👍
Definitely a little off on the brown trout in the US. Still waiting to see that walking catfish up here in the northern.
What do you know about Apple Snails? In Southern Louisiana USA, they are now everywhere in the swamps & bayous. Their pink eggs are everywhere you look.
I feel like putting walking catfish over things that have a legitimate negative impact on ecosystems overall just because their presence is expensive is a showcase of unusual priorities.
I think armored catfish n tilapia seem to the most problem invasive, whenever they are there seem to be no other fish around, they will dominate the area n they are everywhere now
I'm Florida the armored catfish is a big problem indeed, I don't know about tilapia tho, peacock and largemouth bass seem to keep their numbers in check.
Great video like always 👌 👍 Notification squad 😎 👍 I stocked my backyard pond uploaded the video today 😀
It’s rock bass in my area. They were introduced to only a few certain waterbodies years ago, and now you can’t go to a single pond or stream without them constantly stealing your bait and choking out native species
Brown trout needs replaced with common carp. Plus the other carp species.
Yeah Seriously Commons are in pretty much every body of water in the U.S.A and make the water dirty without having the benefits of brown trout. The Video was pretty U.S.A centric but thats what you would expect I suppose.
Brown trout are amazing
@Andrew (Esara) Holst conman carp aren’t invasive also brown trout have little to no affect on anything mainly positive to be fair they eat a lot of gobies so it help the us and stuff
The common carp is in just about every body of water in the USA. Their problematic but still not nearly as bad as big head and silver carp.
@@timg185 browns are way better than any other new species
I learned a lot from this video!
Can i get your intro music im goi g to set it as my tv screen saver music
it's called wishful thinking on youtube's audio library, you can download it from there :)
I love it to
@@TsukiCove thanks bro
I've got a small unfiltered planted tank outside w mosquito fish in it, also use them as bait and feeders for my bass etc
The brown trout in Australia are absolutely loved not so much by green but they kept in check by our weather not to mention the brown trout farming funds lots of our native stocking programs in Australia
I had no idea about the farming funding the native stocking programs that's actually quite interesting
@@TsukiCove yeah dude throughout Victoria new south whales and Tasmania. Brown trout rainbow trout cheetah trout tiger trout and brook trout with salmon farmed in Australia helps fund the Murray cod, golden and silver perch stocking.
I have mates working in some hatchery sun nsw and I’m a fly fishing guide for both aus natives and trout but I much prefer trout
Not gonna lie, the snakefish moving on the photo startled me a little.
Yeah it made me jump, I almost took out my gun and shot the screen when I saw it.
actually, invasion of a mosquitofish is a good invasion i think. in my place i can scoop some mosquitofish from a drain to feed my peacock bass XD
I fish a creek in Virginia exclusively for its northern snakehead population. There are some studs in there and they really do visciously protect their fry which makes for some high octane action. All that said though there are several other species in that creek with them that we catch that are all super fat and healthy. The snakes don't seem, at least in my limited experience, to cause much of a problem. I also realize that every body of water is different and just because all the fish there are doing just fine doesn't mean it's like that everywhere.
I’m new to this channel and I love these videos ngl very informative and cool as well
Hello, proper clip like always :) about the invasive species, in Poland, where I come frome, and I think in big part of continental Europe, there a problem with bullhead catfish. They grow much smaller size than in US, but its plenty of them in some areas. Becouse of they breeding habits (nest protection), they breeding well in Europe, and becouse of they defense mechanism (venom glans connected to spike on they fins) , there are not many predators wich hunting them. They proof for a poor water condition and lack of oxygen, . On lot of places where I was fishing in Poland, they are most often fish on hook. Sorry for my English, I'm not native speaker
Bullheads don't get very big even in the US, maybe you're thinking of Blue/Channel/Flathead Catfish, which do get huge? That's also interesting to know, I was not aware that Bullheads are invasive anywhere.
@@michaelwilkinson5393 Hello, I meant brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulous). Following Wikipedia: "Adult brown bullheads range in size from 200 to 500 mm (7.9 to 19.7 in) and weigh between 0.5 kg (1.1 lb) and 3.6 kg (7.9 lb) (in extreme cases)." Polish Wikipedia saying, the in Europe they reach max size about 30cm (12 in) and weight 200g/0.2kg, which is about 0.4 lb. Biggest which i caught was about 20cm (8 in), i heard about bit bigger caughtes, but it's really rare. Again following Wikipedia, in 1885th some German guy introduce them to his ponds in North West Poland (that time was German territory), and been introduced to few other places after. That was found as a fail, becouse they was growing smaller than in America, so show up small angling and fish farming value, wich was the reason of that introduction. From that time's they start to spread they range in Europe naturally, now they recorded from several countries, mainly central, East, and south-east Europe, they range is pathy, but on some places where they get, they occurred in huge amounts, often become dominant species in some bodies of water. They treat as a pest, becouse they a concurrent for native species, and feed on they spawn and fry. Even in Polish angling license, there is a note, the in case of caugh bullhead, few other invasive species of fish, and two species of Americans crawfishes, your not allowed to release it back where you caught it, or to any other natural body of water. About channel catfish, i heard, there is some population in Europe, in some part of Italy, if I remember correctly, but I have no any closer knowledge about it
@@michaelwilkinson5393 By the way, there are common conviction between Polish anglers, the reason of that massive occurrence of bullheads in places where they got in, its becouse of they venomous spines on pectoral fins, and becouse of that predators don't prey on them. That make sense, becouse, as far i know, there are no native freshwater European fish wich have that kind of defence mechanism, frome other poit of viev, we have a lot closesly realeted species between North American and Europe, if they close american cousins prey on them, europians equivalents should be able to do it too. I wonder about what prey on them in America, and opinion about it from you, and others American vievers
Lol everybody competing to be first no love
Great vid by the way im still watching it while commenting
thanks i appreciate it :)
Yes
Unless u watch at two speed u cant watch finish im 7minutes early
He could legit Make a 2-hour long video about all of the invasive species in Florida
I really needed this thank you man
And to nobody’s surprise almost all of them are in Florida.
Aww man I love brown trout lol
Please do a spotlight on bichir species! Not invasive but very cool!
Brown Trout are from Canada as well.
Florida tops most areas of the world when it comes to ecological disasters.
Florida tops a lot of things not to be proud of if i believe the memes :P
"Only in florida"
Silver carp and common carp
I'm very surprised about brown trout. But on the other hand, a lake in Connecticut has a history of being stocked with brown trout. I've heard a story that when the state first began stocking the lake, the native chain pickerel was killing and eating a lot of the stocked brown trout, which made the state decide to have a special fishing event that involved keeping and eating tons of chain pickerel from that lake in order to make stocking brown trout successful.
A fish I'm surprised you didn't include is the Asian Carp
Sad to see people are easily mistaking the native bowfin for the invasive snakehead
Yeah, some of the stocking programs in Eastern States are real head-scratchers. Most of them are blessed with cool, fast-flowing streams that can support trout species (as long as they aren't poisoned or polluted), but they choose to stock these fish into ponds and lakes? And other states in the East that have terribly polluted streams - like West Virginia and Pennsylvania - dump thousands of trout, each year, into streams that are otherwise dead. If a body of water won't even support minnows or crayfish, then you know that the trout probably don't live longer than a few weeks.
One fish that comes to mind to me in the Cleveland Ohio area of Lake Erie is the Gobie invasive fish.They can also swim down river .
Asain carp are the most invasive species of fish in the American
Hear in Pasoe County Florida Miskito Control releases the Miskito fish.
Great video and channel I just subscribed
Thanks I appreciate it :)
Anyone that lives where chain pickerel were introduced knows how devastating it is to the native fish…
Those fish have ruined trout fishing where I live, the trout are pretty much gone forever.
It was quite astute of you to show a picture of Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor when you mentioned the invasiveness of the snakehead.
In 2002, the snakehead was first discovered in a pond in Southern Maryland; but today, it seems to be prevalent in most large bodies of water in the state ... so much so, that many anglers now actually fish for them. I moved away from Maryland in 2004, but I still tell all of my friends, who live there, that they should kill every snakehead that they catch.
Common Pleco are also huge problems in Thailand too. Gladly, in Thailand we learn they are edible and eat them. We have created lots of ways to cook them. But still, they are still thriving.
These pleco are bycatch after fisherman catch whatever fish they want. They mostly sent to industry fish meal to make fertilizer and grounded fish meal. As also, their tasty meat are often easy to eat with a few cracks and open.
There’s something strangely comedic about needing to put up a fence on land so that a fish doesn’t walk into your hatchery
Up here in washington Common Placo and other in the family is huntable and able to be caught and kept . No size limit and only 10lb weight limit a day.
I have mosquito fish in my pond and i am very happy with them there
I used to volunteer at an aquarium in Biloxi MS and we had a snakehead for a while, which I think someone had surrendered. I remember that it ate voraciously and grew fast. I always felt that fish had a sad, "don't judge me for who I am" expression. The aquarium applied for a permit to keep it but was denied and eventually euthanized it by freezing.
Clove Oul could have been more painless way to euthanize that snake head fish. Like putting it into deep sleep.
Freezing it is a torturous death.
Big fan of your work…wondering if you could do “5 or 10 crabs or lobsters that keep in a planted aquarium” video
Here in Maryland the DNR has added flathead and blue cats to the Kill List along with snakeheads. All three are invasive and only the white catfish is native, though I think that channel cats may be native to western Maryland. Any and all that are caught are to be destroyed, but luckily all three are tasty so at least they don’t have to go to waste.
In california we are having a soft shell turtle problem. We dont have anything that can kill them and the rangers arent doing anything about it.
The fact Silver Carp isn't on this list but Mosquito fish are???? Bruh
Largemouth bass, smallmouth bass and Asian and common carp species are probably the worst everywhere they have been introduced outside of their native range in my experience.
Great snappy little vid and will trigger awareness in many folk, ecology yay!
The Gobi is an invasive fish that is ravaging the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario!
and lake michigan! but finally the smallies are starting to eat them
I read snakeheads aren’t as bad as first thought.... also read that they taste great
Love the activity lately :)
In Turkey we have similar problem . Sunfish, walking catfish, mosquito fish, crassius these are some of the invasive fish. Common carp, barbel, catfish, chub, bream effected by them.
Bowfin is not the only victim of snake head misidentification.. the Burbot, also known as the eelpout is also a North American native that looks like the Bowfin. Sadly many people have a whole other hate with the Bowfin. Meaning they don't have any love at all for the Burbot. The Burbot is a ice fishing delicacy that has given the Burbot its other nickname "freshwater cod"
I think the music is balanced too low, still a really informative video though!
music should be balanced low
I like the balance
In Upstate New York, the Goby fish has infested a number of water ways, especially Lake Ontario and many of the streams and rivers that stem from it.
Just looking through you vids and noticed that you last snakehead update was 3 months ago. Do another!!!!!