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Originally Posted by MudCat08
Since NJ considers these invasive, do we really have to take them if we catch any?
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yes
you must kill them. it is illegal to return them alive to the water.
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Originally Posted by NJ Freshwater Digest p17
Potentially Dangerous Fish
The possession or release of live, potentially dangerous fish is prohibited. These species include Asian swamp eel, bighead, grass (diploid) and silver carp, brook stickleback, green sunfish, flathead catfish, oriental weatherfish, snakehead and warmouth. Anglers MUST destroy these species if encountered while fishing and are directed to submit specimen(s) or photos to a Fish and Wildlife Bureau of Freshwater Fisheries biologist for verification. To reach a biologist, call (908) 236-2118 for north Jersey or (856) 629-4950 for south Jersey. These nonnative species are likely to cause environmental harm to the states fisheries resources by outcompeting preferred game fish species.
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if the biologists are already aware of the issue (like flatheads in the big D or green sunfish in the rockaway river watershed) and you don't really want to take it home, at least toss them up in the woods far enough that they can't get back in to the water and a raccoon or fox will eat them.
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Originally Posted by MudCat08
I don't think I'd want to eat a catfish out of the Delaware in our state even though i wouldn't mind trying a flathead for dinner. It sounds too polluted..
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your state tax dollars are paying for research and monitoring of potential toxins in freshwater fish. use the resource at
http://www.nj.gov/dep/dsr/njmainfish.htm
the delaware is plenty fine to take fish from, eat those flatheads up
