Fisheries have recently discovered what appears to be a huge threat to WA native waterways.
They have been raiding fish shops and peoples houses to capture and destroy all of these animals.
There must have been some research into these that causes massive risks to the environment, obviously on a vastly larger scale than anything you can imagine.
When raiding your house atleast 3 people will rock up, treat you like a criminal, and video tape everything.
So what is this highly dangerous creature?
The Cherry Shrimp
This scary creature reaches a max size of about 20mm or 20 000 000 nano meters (it sounds bigger that way
)They are highly dangerous to local fish populations, they probably reach as high as krill on the food chain.
And are actually really good parents to other fish eggs, if the parents don't eat them, as they clean and remove fungus eggs stopping it spreading.
So if you have purchased or sold any of these vicious scary creatures, beware, they may come knocking.
And if you happen to have any other form of shrimp as well, including natives, they will seize and destroy those too if you haven't completed a translocation permit for them.
It doesn't matter if they are kept for ornamental purposes only, apparently fisheries want translocation permits for all fish now.
Currently being discussed here
http://www.perthcichlid.com.au/forum/in ... opic=53504
So watch out next time you swim in a fresh water lake around WA, you may get attacked by some deadly thumbnail sized shrimp.
Everyone who has complained about how easy ornamental fish keepers have it... the times are changing
Congrats Dept of Fisheries, you truly have paid yourselves off by finding this biosecurity threat.
Andrew
ps. I no longer keep these creatures, their pure evilness forced me to give them away to people for free, I still suffer from the nightmares
