Some interesting things about the Round Goby-they're actually preyed upon by smallmouth bass and the Lake Erie Watersnake, which has been removed from the federally threatened and endangered species list, perhaps because about 90% of it's diet consists of gobies and they can make a comeback
Just about all the fish in Lake Michigan have added gobies to their diet as well, other than king salmon which still prefer the alewives. Best bait to use
Mary the problem with goby is they can eat fish their size or bigger. Amd they are very aggressive and eat anything and everything and never get full. Theyvwhupe out whole nests of eggs and fry or juvenile fish. Which can whipe fish species out
Also they feed on Zebra Mussels which is also invasive but actually helped clean the the dirty lakes and increased the population of other fishes and plants
Same with the Zander (european walleye) population in river Rhine. There are more of them than in the last decades as they feed on the gobys and their fry is moving in open water quickly and they should benefit eels as they don t reproduce in the river but the ocean. Still these gobys suck to every other fish. They are good bait but you are only allowed to use them on the waters where you caught them and dead. Deep fried goby is tasty but after hearing they can spread diseases I will fry them extra crunchy from now on 😂
In my country, alligator gar and redtail catfish are the most invasive species that were introduced as an aquarium monster fish. They can grow up to massive size and they eat everything.
Once I stopped working in Aquarium stores, and didn't have easy access to feeder fish, I needed a better way to feed my Peacock Bass. So I used to just catch Tiliapia in lakes around me and feed them to the Bass.
The worst invasive species we had in Cyprus and southern Greece, is Lagocephalus sceleratus, the Silver-cheeked Toadfish, which is a pufferfish species closely related to the fugu pufferfish. They came to the Mediterranean the same way the lionfish did, and have caused massive damage.
I'm in Cyprus. At least the lionfish is edible and provides an incentive to spear. Puffer fish are such a nuisance people try to avoid them altogether.
In the Columbia river basin where I live, we have problems with invasive smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, channel catfish and walleye. They eat the fry of native salmon and steelhead, and are part of the reason for decreasing runs of our native salmonids. This has effects that goes well beyond the rivers where they live, because salmon are important for transporting nutrients from the ocean to the lands around the salmon spawning grounds, often high in the mountains. This is in addition to the importance of salmon to the culture her in the pacific northwest. I try to do my civic duty by catching as many of these invasive fish as I can, but anglers just can't keep up with them.
@@TsukiCove to against invasive lionfish, me should skewers this fish with spear and give this to dolphin, Orca, seal, polar bears, loggerhead, sharks, and other fish
i suggest the Lagocephalus sceleratus it is a type of puffer fish that is invasive in the eastern Mediterranean , the Adriatic and they are spreading too
My brother actually caught a round goby 2 days ago and my dad told him to give it to me as pike bait. We didn't know that it was invasive and sick. I casted it out and used it for an hour. It was still kicking after being casted out 25-30m. When we had to go I released it but it floated up to the surface... Job well done? I guess?
Yeah here in the Netherlands the Round Goby is a big problem. In like the last 10-15 years they have become a pretty dominant species out of nowhere. When you go fishing for small fish in streams or rivers here, you will now most likely catch them in large numbers, while the number of native small fish are decreasing. We also have a problem with invasive sweet water lopsters. We pretty much didn't have any of thosd either 15 years ago, and yet now they are pretty common. No clue what the impact if those are though. All i know is that they get out of the water some times, and at least then they aren't dominant. Cats play with them and kill them, while i guess some bird species prey on them.
It's interesting to watch videos of divers hunting lionfish, they gather in massive flocks underwater and even after fish are skewered by a diver the others barely react at even if the target was literally right next to them. They just float there and let themselves be picked off, it shows how out of control they are because they don't view anything as a threat
The silver carp is just 1 of 4 invasive carp in the USA that are causing alot of harm to ecosystems. The big head carp, a close relative to the silver carp but can grow much larger is also highly invasive in the us. The black carp and grass carp are also invasive but seem to not get as much coverage. Also depending on what state you are in silver and bighead carp are either media blackout or they are front page. In Wisconsin where I am from there are only warning signs and poor pictures in fishing regulations books. When a fisherman asks for any information (like myself) I was ignored by people at the state administration level. 😒 in other states you can find out where, when and how many were netted or fished out by an individual or organization.
I wouldn't be surprised if the goldfish was such an invasive species like the others that have been mentioned, considering how some people tend to throw them away into lakes or streams when they can't take care of them properly.
They would be but their family has already been introduced in Europe and the damage has already been done. The thing is that carassius lives where pretty much nothing else is able to survive so it isn't as bad as it could have been. Sometimes you even get to see wild carassius that has interbred with goldfish which is pretty cool.
Yes, the goldfish and its wild form the prussian carp are invasive in many parts of the earth, the former in most part of the world, the latter was introduced by anglers or fishkeepers into all parts of europe and also must recently into canada. the reason those two fish are such a widespread pest is that they dont need males of thier own species to reproduce, they have the ability of gynognesis, which basically means thier eggs have to be fertilized by any other cyprinid, anything from a minnow to another species of carp will do, they just have to find other fish of the carp family and spawn to lay thier eggs at the same time and place as them. the resulting young from those fertilized eggs are an exact clone of the female that laid the eggs. If you catch either a goldfish or a prussian carp in the wild *kill it!* they can be a massive threat to all native fish
Maybe do a video on which invasive species was caused by humans whose purpose was to use those to solve another issue and those brought only to be used for food.
Peacock Grouper, or Roi in Hawaii, are pretty nuts in how destructive they've become in the reefs. Especially since eating them also proves to be quite dangerous with high rates ciguatera in the species.
In Sri Lanka it’s been a huge issue of exotic fish entering urban wetlands and lakes, examples of exotics being caught are Clown KnifeFish, Alligator Gar, Mayan Chichlids and there’s been reports of Arowana being spotted as well
Add chub and pink salmon they are invasive species in Ireland and do a lot of damage to the our native fish like bradán (Atlantic Salmon) and etc. Also love the channel keep it up lad
After hearing about the lionfish I went "hmmmm.. what if we made a robot that could hunt them automatically?" Well I looked it up and people are actually already working on that lol
The round Gobi also eats a native Fish called Alewives because they’re small bait fish and are causing them to almost go extinct which is another reason why they need to go
Alewives aren't native to the great lakes though. The alwewives pretty munch almost killed the great lakes. Because Nothing ate them but lake trout. Which was almost wiped out in the 50s because of over fishing. So they had to bring in salmon, and that didn't do any thing. If any thing. The goby has actually helped the great lakes. Every thing eats them, there is more smaller species of fish, and what fish are caught for sport. Are a lot bigger then 30 years ago.
Most invasive fish in australia are tilapia,chiclids,brown and rainbow trout,mosquito fish ect..... Yet the government stocks trout. And never does anything about any other invasive fish
The European carp has absolutely devastated the Murray-Darling river basin in east Australia and many other river systems across Australia, producing huge amounts of waste, polluting the waterways, stirring up the substrate, and outcompeting the native species like murray cod and perch
Mollies? I know they’re pretty invasive, can live in fresh salt and brackish, can thrive and breed in water at 45 degrees Fahrenheit. I think they’re found in the Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, Australia probably more places.
One invasive fish I heard about was the wels catfish in areas like Paris. The waterways used to be home to carp in that region but now the wels catfish have taken over
Round gobies are also invasive in the baltic, and the rocky shores are perfect for the their nests. Another invasive one around here besides cyprinids is the bullhead catfish. great video as always!
Round gobies are aloud to use as bait if they’re dead and used in the same body of water they were caught in. DNR just caught the new record lake sturgeon in the Detroit river using gobies
I read somewhere, that a major flood in Florida had destroyed a petshop with many lion fish in stock, contributing to a mass release on the atlantic side. Also, I saw a documentary where they have recently been found in the Gulf of Mexico and the protected waters of Cuba.
Tui chubs. They took over a lake in Oregon (Diamond Lake) to the point where they had to kill off EVERYTHING in the lake to get rid of them. The result of fishing with live bait (mostly illegal).
I think I've seen mozanbique tilapia here in Mexico, recently in a river I saw a large group of tilapias in it, but I'm called atension because they had red tails, now I guess it's because they were mozanbique tilapias, and in fact I live in the center of Mexico which gets very cold in winter, so you can see that they are hardy fish.
Maybe you will make an episode about amphiumas? I know these animals are amphibians, not fishes, but as they are very primitive and similar in shape to eels, they might catch your eye:)
Yeah but still a lot of people think deforestation is also timber blocks being cut down, which is not the case, they are planted there for timber and wood, obviously.
Sorry to bother you but the lion fish invasion is now dwarfed by a more toxic animal invader, Spoiler alert its the box jellyfish[ also known as the most toxic animal in the world]. The box jellyfish usually lives in the Indian Ocean, but they are introduced to the American coast line through the cargo trade as stowaways as polyps, and they are now found in the American coast line, not just in the Atlantic Ocean, but also in the Pacific Ocean.
As for the Goby problem. In europe we have similar cases of this species invading the rhine and donsk riversystems and basically overrunning them. But after a few years it seems that the native predatory species have learned to prey and eat the gobys. So hopefully the problems can be reduced.
@@TsukiCove where I'm from in Alaska we Lost all of our rainbows to Pike that got into our lake. So when I watched your first video on invasive fish I was like he better mention them.
When I went scuba diving in the med in cyprus I saw three large common lion fish around a rocky outcrop out to sea they are beautiful but catastrophic to the ecosystem
@@WobblesandBean that won’t work on cane toads, but yeah. Easiest way for humans to fix these problems. Point and go ‘hey look! Something it’s okay to hunt to extinction in the region. It shouldn’t be here!’
@@WobblesandBean ya really think a divers just gonna grab a lionfish and eat it, it takes special equipment and caution to catch a lionfish and live to tell the tale
I wouldn't be to surprised to find the Round Goby pop up on the south coast of England at some point. I say this as I believe they have become invasive in the Netherlands as have things like Monkey and Bighead Gobies. Although I also believe Monkey and Bighead Gobies prefer fresh or low salinity brackish water.
I dive the Great Lakes on a weekly basis. Any campaign to stop the round goby is in my opinion hopeless. There are so many of them when you actually reach the bottom and stand in the rocks the entire ground moves. The reason? Nearly every inch of the bottom is occupied by a goby
I was wondering if you'd cover the lionfish. Thankfully, they're a very tasty fish and perfectly safe to eat. So divers, fishers and spear hunters, get movin'! EAT ALL INVASIVES!
I will like to point out that, lion fish Arnt a big problem anymore in Florida because Florida authorities allowed fishermen to keep an extra haul of lobster for x amount of lion fish killed. And because mini lobster season is so big down here we obliterated the lion fish population.
There is a fish in Central Texas called theTexas Black Convict. It is a South American ciclid. It is belived that the fish were released by some college students in Austin. They have taken over all the creeks that feed the Colorado river. They have no predators. They make nest in the center of a creek and force the native fish to the edges. Mean fish.
Another invasive species to add to your list: Chain Pickerel (small member of the pike family) in the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada. They've eliminated all of the trout from many bodies of water in both provinces.
My opening ad was Florida tourism (state parks etc). Fitting. Hey Yankee tourists, spend your vacations spearfishing lionfish, so you can get food, an adrenaline rush, and actually help the environment for once.
There's also another way that we're dealing with the invasive species of silver carp we have reintroduced the alligator gar we are starting to open gar hatcheries and we are releasing them back into the United States because gar eat carp this will be effective way to get rid of the silver carp invasive species
Making it illegal to use gobies as bait seems really odd. Bait usually doesn't survive and needs to be caught in the first place. I guess you wouldn't want it being transported to other waterways but it discourages them from being removed in lakes that already have them.
The Round Goby and other Goby species from the black sea have become a huge problem in Germany as well! These little fish drive me crazy as a Fishermen ...
Cover the Green Sunfish, I love them, fun to catch, good to eat, and can be very pretty for aquaria. But once 2 are introduced to any water source they out comepete everything else.
As some one who lives who fishes, and lives in the great lakes area of the states. It seems like the goby actually has helped more then harmed the lakes. Every thing eats it, the fish people catch are bigger then ever, and some spices are now less prayed on. Not saying everything is perfect, but going from a body of water that was over fished for 200 years, to what experts are saying is now a very healthy fish population. They can't be doing a whole lot of damage right now.
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There are 1000s of sub species of fish in lakes and rivers around the globe and often go extinct before even acknowledged as a species as a kid we had a mud eal living in a pool on the family farm id never seen anything else like it and it could go into the mud during droughts and stay alive .we would never kill them because the numbers were always low.when we sold the farm to some greenies we thought they would be safe.But no the pool they lived in was ripped up and concrete over to put a storm trap on an pipe that went under the road I asked the owners about them .we never saw them they said .I asked did you go there with a spot light at night when they came out no didn't think of that.
In Germany, the gobys (I think 3 or 4 species in total) got into the Rhine by ship and exploded in population initially But after about 2 years they seemed to become part of the food chain and became less prevalent, with the gobys actually benefitting some predatory fishes populations But im not sure how this is going to change the ecosystems in the long run
Very closely related. The sizes stated for the Nile Perch are actually those for a barramundi. The Nile Perch has been reported as getting as long as 10 feet or 3 metres. From memory the family containing Nile Perch and Barramundi only has about 4 members.
Some interesting things about the Round Goby-they're actually preyed upon by smallmouth bass and the Lake Erie Watersnake, which has been removed from the federally threatened and endangered species list, perhaps because about 90% of it's diet consists of gobies and they can make a comeback
Just about all the fish in Lake Michigan have added gobies to their diet as well, other than king salmon which still prefer the alewives. Best bait to use
I use round gobies for bait
Mary the problem with goby is they can eat fish their size or bigger. Amd they are very aggressive and eat anything and everything and never get full. Theyvwhupe out whole nests of eggs and fry or juvenile fish. Which can whipe fish species out
Also they feed on Zebra Mussels which is also invasive but actually helped clean the the dirty lakes and increased the population of other fishes and plants
Same with the Zander (european walleye) population in river Rhine. There are more of them than in the last decades as they feed on the gobys and their fry is moving in open water quickly and they should benefit eels as they don t reproduce in the river but the ocean. Still these gobys suck to every other fish. They are good bait but you are only allowed to use them on the waters where you caught them and dead. Deep fried goby is tasty but after hearing they can spread diseases I will fry them extra crunchy from now on 😂
In my country, alligator gar and redtail catfish are the most invasive species that were introduced as an aquarium monster fish. They can grow up to massive size and they eat everything.
What country are you from
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Once I stopped working in Aquarium stores, and didn't have easy access to feeder fish, I needed a better way to feed my Peacock Bass. So I used to just catch Tiliapia in lakes around me and feed them to the Bass.
I've been waiting for this
So have the invasive fosh
you are so underrated it’s unbelievable. i can sense your channel blowing up by the time 2022 comes around!
These vids are really good they help me to know what to watch out for and what to target. This should be a series.
The worst invasive species we had in Cyprus and southern Greece, is Lagocephalus sceleratus, the Silver-cheeked Toadfish, which is a pufferfish species closely related to the fugu pufferfish. They came to the Mediterranean the same way the lionfish did, and have caused massive damage.
I'm in Cyprus. At least the lionfish is edible and provides an incentive to spear. Puffer fish are such a nuisance people try to avoid them altogether.
In the Columbia river basin where I live, we have problems with invasive smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, channel catfish and walleye. They eat the fry of native salmon and steelhead, and are part of the reason for decreasing runs of our native salmonids. This has effects that goes well beyond the rivers where they live, because salmon are important for transporting nutrients from the ocean to the lands around the salmon spawning grounds, often high in the mountains. This is in addition to the importance of salmon to the culture her in the pacific northwest. I try to do my civic duty by catching as many of these invasive fish as I can, but anglers just can't keep up with them.
Keep up the amazing content I never knew I needed
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@@TsukiCove to against invasive lionfish, me should skewers this fish with spear and give this to dolphin, Orca, seal, polar bears, loggerhead, sharks, and other fish
Big fan of the invasive species series, keep up the good work!
i suggest the Lagocephalus sceleratus it is a type of puffer fish that is invasive in the eastern Mediterranean , the Adriatic and they are spreading too
A lot of fish from the Indo-Pacific are Lessepsian migrants in the Mediterranean.
My brother actually caught a round goby 2 days ago and my dad told him to give it to me as pike bait. We didn't know that it was invasive and sick. I casted it out and used it for an hour. It was still kicking after being casted out 25-30m. When we had to go I released it but it floated up to the surface... Job well done? I guess?
Your channel is awesome, full of great content!
Yeah here in the Netherlands the Round Goby is a big problem. In like the last 10-15 years they have become a pretty dominant species out of nowhere. When you go fishing for small fish in streams or rivers here, you will now most likely catch them in large numbers, while the number of native small fish are decreasing.
We also have a problem with invasive sweet water lopsters. We pretty much didn't have any of thosd either 15 years ago, and yet now they are pretty common. No clue what the impact if those are though. All i know is that they get out of the water some times, and at least then they aren't dominant. Cats play with them and kill them, while i guess some bird species prey on them.
Love watching your vids!
Can you do Lagocephalus sceleratus please its a huge problem in Turkey
It's interesting to watch videos of divers hunting lionfish, they gather in massive flocks underwater and even after fish are skewered by a diver the others barely react at even if the target was literally right next to them. They just float there and let themselves be picked off, it shows how out of control they are because they don't view anything as a threat
Great vid and infomational as always
thanks I appreciate it :)
The silver carp is just 1 of 4 invasive carp in the USA that are causing alot of harm to ecosystems. The big head carp, a close relative to the silver carp but can grow much larger is also highly invasive in the us. The black carp and grass carp are also invasive but seem to not get as much coverage.
Also depending on what state you are in silver and bighead carp are either media blackout or they are front page. In Wisconsin where I am from there are only warning signs and poor pictures in fishing regulations books. When a fisherman asks for any information (like myself) I was ignored by people at the state administration level. 😒 in other states you can find out where, when and how many were netted or fished out by an individual or organization.
And this is why I shoot any many carp as possible when bowfishing
You just making so much video. I love it
Hey bro check out the situation in Hungary about the brown bullhead (Ameiurus nebulosus). you have yourself another one.
I wouldn't be surprised if the goldfish was such an invasive species like the others that have been mentioned, considering how some people tend to throw them away into lakes or streams when they can't take care of them properly.
They would be but their family has already been introduced in Europe and the damage has already been done. The thing is that carassius lives where pretty much nothing else is able to survive so it isn't as bad as it could have been. Sometimes you even get to see wild carassius that has interbred with goldfish which is pretty cool.
Yes, the goldfish and its wild form the prussian carp are invasive in many parts of the earth, the former in most part of the world, the latter was introduced by anglers or fishkeepers into all parts of europe and also must recently into canada. the reason those two fish are such a widespread pest is that they dont need males of thier own species to reproduce, they have the ability of gynognesis, which basically means thier eggs have to be fertilized by any other cyprinid, anything from a minnow to another species of carp will do, they just have to find other fish of the carp family and spawn to lay thier eggs at the same time and place as them. the resulting young from those fertilized eggs are an exact clone of the female that laid the eggs. If you catch either a goldfish or a prussian carp in the wild *kill it!* they can be a massive threat to all native fish
Maybe do a video on which invasive species was caused by humans whose purpose was to use those to solve another issue and those brought only to be used for food.
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Ironically this fish also became invasive. Also the clown knifefish.
Peacock Grouper, or Roi in Hawaii, are pretty nuts in how destructive they've become in the reefs. Especially since eating them also proves to be quite dangerous with high rates ciguatera in the species.
In Sri Lanka it’s been a huge issue of exotic fish entering urban wetlands and lakes, examples of exotics being caught are Clown KnifeFish, Alligator Gar, Mayan Chichlids and there’s been reports of Arowana being spotted as well
Add chub and pink salmon they are invasive species in Ireland and do a lot of damage to the our native fish like bradán (Atlantic Salmon) and etc. Also love the channel keep it up lad
After hearing about the lionfish I went "hmmmm.. what if we made a robot that could hunt them automatically?" Well I looked it up and people are actually already working on that lol
Thats a cool idea, and they are so visually distinct it should be easy to keep them from accidentally killing other species!
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The round Gobi also eats a native Fish called Alewives because they’re small bait fish and are causing them to almost go extinct which is another reason why they need to go
Alewives aren't native to the great lakes though. The alwewives pretty munch almost killed the great lakes. Because Nothing ate them but lake trout. Which was almost wiped out in the 50s because of over fishing. So they had to bring in salmon, and that didn't do any thing. If any thing. The goby has actually helped the great lakes. Every thing eats them, there is more smaller species of fish, and what fish are caught for sport. Are a lot bigger then 30 years ago.
@@Hazel-the-Amazon I agree
@@Hazel-the-Amazon yeah that is true plus they can move in fresh and saltwater and the breed like crazy
Most invasive fish in australia are tilapia,chiclids,brown and rainbow trout,mosquito fish ect.....
Yet the government stocks trout. And never does anything about any other invasive fish
This is my new favorite channel!
The European carp has absolutely devastated the Murray-Darling river basin in east Australia and many other river systems across Australia, producing huge amounts of waste, polluting the waterways, stirring up the substrate, and outcompeting the native species like murray cod and perch
Mollies? I know they’re pretty invasive, can live in fresh salt and brackish, can thrive and breed in water at 45 degrees Fahrenheit. I think they’re found in the Gulf of Mexico, Hawaii, Australia probably more places.
One invasive fish I heard about was the wels catfish in areas like Paris. The waterways used to be home to carp in that region but now the wels catfish have taken over
Round gobies are also invasive in the baltic, and the rocky shores are perfect for the their nests. Another invasive one around here besides cyprinids is the bullhead catfish.
great video as always!
Round gobies are aloud to use as bait if they’re dead and used in the same body of water they were caught in. DNR just caught the new record lake sturgeon in the Detroit river using gobies
Tsuki please make a video about your snakehead.I really wanted to know how they grow.
Man I’ve been watching all of your videos. Falling in love really fast!! Great content and the hello from your dog is always awesome :)))
Thank you I really appreciate it and I'm glad you like the content, I'll keep the videos coming :)
European carp and English perch (redfin) here in Australia.
Them and tilapia. Mozambique mouth brooders and striped tilapia are rampant in Queensland.
I read somewhere, that a major flood in Florida had destroyed a petshop with many lion fish in stock, contributing to a mass release on the atlantic side. Also, I saw a documentary where they have recently been found in the Gulf of Mexico and the protected waters of Cuba.
If you ever need a video idea, i think best aquarium fish for beginners would be really cool and welcomed by us new aquarium keepers. :)
Tui chubs. They took over a lake in Oregon (Diamond Lake) to the point where they had to kill off EVERYTHING in the lake to get rid of them. The result of fishing with live bait (mostly illegal).
In Nova Scotia the worst ones are small mouth bass and pickeral they have almost completely taken over everything
What was the music in the beginning? Or did you make it? Nice video btw, love watching em
I think I've seen mozanbique tilapia here in Mexico, recently in a river I saw a large group of tilapias in it, but I'm called atension because they had red tails, now I guess it's because they were mozanbique tilapias, and in fact I live in the center of Mexico which gets very cold in winter, so you can see that they are hardy fish.
Yooo, mate you should do a video about most rare snakeheads or something where you include Channa Micropeltes, Love your vids tho ❤️
Maybe you will make an episode about amphiumas? I know these animals are amphibians, not fishes, but as they are very primitive and similar in shape to eels, they might catch your eye:)
Yeah but still a lot of people think deforestation is also timber blocks being cut down, which is not the case, they are planted there for timber and wood, obviously.
Sorry to bother you but the lion fish invasion is now dwarfed by a more toxic animal invader,
Spoiler alert its the box jellyfish[ also known as the most toxic animal in the world].
The box jellyfish usually lives in the Indian Ocean, but they are introduced to the American coast line through the cargo trade as stowaways as polyps, and they are now found in the American coast line, not just in the Atlantic Ocean, but also in the Pacific Ocean.
How about a list of fish that aren't an invasive species but would be disastrous if they became invasive to certain ecosystems?
I love your videos!
These vids are amazing man
As for the Goby problem.
In europe we have similar cases of this species invading the rhine and donsk riversystems and basically overrunning them. But after a few years it seems that the native predatory species have learned to prey and eat the gobys. So hopefully the problems can be reduced.
Lures that resemble gobies are a sure bet when fishing the Great Lakes.
I know it’s not really a fish but it is the zebra mussel that, where I live, is taking over many lakes and ponds.
Please do more invasive fish vids. They are weirdly my favorite
I will do, there's plenty more invasive fish out there
@@TsukiCove where I'm from in Alaska we Lost all of our rainbows to Pike that got into our lake. So when I watched your first video on invasive fish I was like he better mention them.
When I went scuba diving in the med in cyprus I saw three large common lion fish around a rocky outcrop out to sea they are beautiful but catastrophic to the ecosystem
Eat them! Seriously, they are absolutely delicious. Eat ALL invasives!
@@WobblesandBean that won’t work on cane toads, but yeah. Easiest way for humans to fix these problems. Point and go ‘hey look! Something it’s okay to hunt to extinction in the region. It shouldn’t be here!’
@@WobblesandBean ya really think a divers just gonna grab a lionfish and eat it, it takes special equipment and caution to catch a lionfish and live to tell the tale
I caught some Round Goby years back...... they never made back to the water
I wouldn't be to surprised to find the Round Goby pop up on the south coast of England at some point. I say this as I believe they have become invasive in the Netherlands as have things like Monkey and Bighead Gobies. Although I also believe Monkey and Bighead Gobies prefer fresh or low salinity brackish water.
I dive the Great Lakes on a weekly basis. Any campaign to stop the round goby is in my opinion hopeless. There are so many of them when you actually reach the bottom and stand in the rocks the entire ground moves. The reason? Nearly every inch of the bottom is occupied by a goby
I think goldfish, cichlids, grass carp, wels catfish, common carp, blue catfish, and largemouth bass should be talked about more
I was wondering if you'd cover the lionfish. Thankfully, they're a very tasty fish and perfectly safe to eat. So divers, fishers and spear hunters, get movin'! EAT ALL INVASIVES!
I will like to point out that, lion fish Arnt a big problem anymore in Florida because Florida authorities allowed fishermen to keep an extra haul of lobster for x amount of lion fish killed. And because mini lobster season is so big down here we obliterated the lion fish population.
There is a fish in Central Texas called theTexas Black Convict. It is a South American ciclid. It is belived that the fish were released by some college students in Austin. They have taken over all the creeks that feed the Colorado river. They have no predators. They make nest in the center of a creek and force the native fish to the edges. Mean fish.
Another invasive species to add to your list:
Chain Pickerel (small member of the pike family) in the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in Canada. They've eliminated all of the trout from many bodies of water in both provinces.
How about the Pacu in New Guinea? They are causing an ecological disaster down there. Even if you discredit the "ball cutter" story.
Even river monsters show mention it
Hey hey there, guess what?
Mozambique HERE! 6:22
My opening ad was Florida tourism (state parks etc). Fitting. Hey Yankee tourists, spend your vacations spearfishing lionfish, so you can get food, an adrenaline rush, and actually help the environment for once.
There's also another way that we're dealing with the invasive species of silver carp we have reintroduced the alligator gar we are starting to open gar hatcheries and we are releasing them back into the United States because gar eat carp this will be effective way to get rid of the silver carp invasive species
Making it illegal to use gobies as bait seems really odd. Bait usually doesn't survive and needs to be caught in the first place. I guess you wouldn't want it being transported to other waterways but it discourages them from being removed in lakes that already have them.
amazing series
You should make a video of the worst invasive ant and jellyfish species
Great video!!
Thanks man :)
The Round Goby and other Goby species from the black sea have become a huge problem in Germany as well!
These little fish drive me crazy as a Fishermen ...
Da kann ich nur zustimmen!
I am glad this popped up!
We were fishing a pier on lake Erie and we fishing with massive minows and the goby would just keep eating the minows
Cover the Green Sunfish, I love them, fun to catch, good to eat, and can be very pretty for aquaria. But once 2 are introduced to any water source they out comepete everything else.
Where I live the bluegill take over ponds
Knife Fish could be a good idea for the next list
Talk about the goldfish in the next video. Its one of the most common yet harmful invasive species.
I'm pretty sure that i saw a Red Lionfish in Cyprus.
Silver carp are nasty, but they make good cutbait for blue catfish.
Rainbow trout, Large and Smallmouth bass, some lampreys, and common carp are invasives too. Great list!
if you ever make a part 3 you have to talk about snakeheads
As some one who lives who fishes, and lives in the great lakes area of the states. It seems like the goby actually has helped more then harmed the lakes. Every thing eats it, the fish people catch are bigger then ever, and some spices are now less prayed on. Not saying everything is perfect, but going from a body of water that was over fished for 200 years, to what experts are saying is now a very healthy fish population. They can't be doing a whole lot of damage right now.
I Have Some Ideas For A Part 3 Based On Other People's Mentions In The Comment Section:
Largemouth Bass
Northern Pike
Sea Lamprey
Mayan Cichlid
Goldfish
Add the common carp next
Edit:add the knife fish and the NOTORIOUS GOLD FISH
will do
For most of the world the common carp is a big issue but in the us they've become a staple and I think its pretty good
In many parts of the US, the silver carp is the ultimate spear/bowfishing target! In Virginia you can even hunt fish with fire arms...
There are 1000s of sub species of fish in lakes and rivers around the globe and often go extinct before even acknowledged as a species as a kid we had a mud eal living in a pool on the family farm id never seen anything else like it and it could go into the mud during droughts and stay alive .we would never kill them because the numbers were always low.when we sold the farm to some greenies we thought they would be safe.But no the pool they lived in was ripped up and concrete over to put a storm trap on an pipe that went under the road I asked the owners about them .we never saw them they said .I asked did you go there with a spot light at night when they came out no didn't think of that.
The Nile perch is such an amazing fish it’s a shame it eats all the other fish in lake Victoria
In Germany, the gobys (I think 3 or 4 species in total) got into the Rhine by ship and exploded in population initially
But after about 2 years they seemed to become part of the food chain and became less prevalent, with the gobys actually benefitting some predatory fishes populations
But im not sure how this is going to change the ecosystems in the long run
Please do one on silver and Asian carp
Oh, i have a list for florida alone. There are TONS here
Housed to catch lion fish regularly had a bait fishing boat that sting but you get housed to it
Aren't Mory Eels able to eat Lion Fish? I know that doesn't help too much against their spread, but just wondering.
Yeah they can and have been documented doing so
I love this channel lol
Alewife in the Great Lakes. Common plecos in Florida.
There’s Nile perch in Georgia
The Nile perch looks like a barramundi
they are in the same family if I remember correctly
Very closely related. The sizes stated for the Nile Perch are actually those for a barramundi. The Nile Perch has been reported as getting as long as 10 feet or 3 metres. From memory the family containing Nile Perch and Barramundi only has about 4 members.
you should talk about large crab species. I personal favorite crab is the Puget Sound King Crab
You should check out Goldfish in North America. They are pretty invasive up here