Re: Frogs are better than fish!

**Lynn Jenkins j*@iquest.net**

Some states have laws against using native fish (not sure whether it has to
do with capturing them or stocking them) which complicates the issue. The
Sunday Telegraph (Portland Press, ME) ran a good article on fish for water
gardens, pointing out state law banning goldfish, and recommending some
native fish, the kind of article I wish more people would write. It was in
the last year, unfortunately I didn't save it.

I'll try to fish it out of a newspaper database I have access to.

The same concerns about what makes a plant native apply to fish, and their
ecology and habits are not well understood by the typical gardener, so be
careful about introducing "native" fish to waters it is not suited to or
waters it too might "invade".

Sally
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