RE: exotic loach in Marysville (fwd)

[Laurie Hughes <lhughes@drizzle.com>]

LOL! Here I was worrying about a meeting at the end of this month. Commuting to 
the East side by bus stinks, so I'd better have my truck back LONG before Aug.

Thanks for the reminder.
Laurie

-----Original Message-----
From:   Kathy Olson [SMTP:kathy@thekrib.com]
Sent:   Sunday, June 20, 1999 5:50 PM
To:     Laurie Hughes
Subject:        RE: exotic loach in Marysville (fwd)

Laurie,

The next board meeting isn't until the end of august.....so I hope your
truck is fixed by then :)

Kathy


On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Laurie Hughes wrote:

> I would love to go, but I am also going to be out of town those dates. I'm 
> headed to hot, hot Phoenix on Wed thru the weekend. 
> 
> Also, doubt that I can make the next board meeting. My truck is in the shop, 
> waiting for a new engine. Please send me an update after?
> 
> Thanks,
> Laurie
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Olson [SMTP:erik@thekrib.com]
> Sent: Saturday, June 19, 1999 9:02 AM
> To:   gsas-board@gsas.org
> Subject:      exotic loach in Marysville (fwd)
> 
> Kathy & I will be gone during this time, but maybe you guys...
> 
>   - Erik
> 
> PS: Two new mailing lists created: gsas-announce and gsas-member. I'm
> working on making the web archives work so folks can look up old messages
> too.  I'll probably spam the database's e-mail addresses and put an
> announcement on the web site soon.
> 
> -- 
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 08:06:42 -0700
> From: Jay DeLong <thirdwind@att.net>
> To: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
> Subject: exotic loach in Marysville
> 
> Hi Erik.  In case you or anyone else at GSAS might be interested, here's
> something that happened last week.  I'll include my original post instead of
> typing everything again.  The date for the search is next Saturday June 26
> (you'll see what I mean from the attached email).  And also check out
> http://home.att.net/~thirdwind/WantedLoach.htm for a bit of fun.  A photo of
> the loach is at http://home.att.net/~thirdwind/aquariumfish.htm.  It has
> been sent to the curator of the UW fish collection for ID and as a voucher
> specimen.
> 
> Feel free to join us in the search.  It should last from 1-5 PM or so, and
> will be hard, hot and dirty work.  On top of that, our greatest success will
> be in NOT finding any more loaches!
> 
> Jay DeLong
> 
> ------------------------------------
> 
> Original message:
> 
> I got a call today from Cliff Bengston, a hatchery manager who found a fish
> he didn't recognize.  He described it to me like this: "It's about 7 inches
> long, shaped like a gunnel and it has 4 barbels".  All I could think was
> loach.  I told him that what he has wasn't native, but that reproducing
> populations of weather loaches have been found in several states, including
> Oregon and Idaho.  I told him they've been found in areas of still water
> with mud substrate in Oregon (from a conversation with Dan Logan--the person
> who found it in Oregon).  Cliff said the fish was in a settling pond in
> several inches of silt.  Boy was I glad when he said "I think someone should
> be told about this.  Do you want to take care of it for me?"  So I meet him
> halfway and got the fish.  Sure enough it was a loach of some kind, and
> still alive (and now in my aquarium).  I believe it's the Chinese
> Weatherfish Misgurnus mizoepis.  Check out the picture I found at Loaches
> On-Line at http://aquaweb.pair.com/LOACH/misgurnus_mizoepis.shtml.  I'll get
> back to you when I get a positive ID.
> 
> Now I'm curious if there are others in the area.  If so, this will be a
> first for Washington, but there's a possibility it was a lone aquarium
> release.  Only one way to find out.  I asked Cliff if he'd like to find out
> if there was a population of them in the creek, and I offered the help of
> NANFA members to conduct such a search.  He said he'd be grateful for any
> help.  According to one paper (Logan, Daniel J., E.L. Bibles and D.F.
> Markle. 1996. Recent Collections of Exotic Aquarium Fishes in the
> Freshwaters of Oregon and Thermal Tolerance of Oriental Weatherfish and
> Pirapatinga. 1996. California Fish and Game 82(2):66-80), weatherfish could
> be predators on native fishes or parasite and disease vectors.  Cliff was
> especially concerned about the disease issue.
> 
> So, Oregon and Washington NANFA members, do you want to get together for a
> weatherfish search day?  We'd be going to Tulalip Creek, just north of
> Everett, on the Tulalip Indian reservation?   This will be a great
> opportunity for us.
> 
> Jay
>