Te Tennessee Wildlife Agency reintroduced otters into the Buffalo River a few years ago. As a result, the fish population has gone down drastically and as the fish decline, the otters leave the river and get into farmers’ stocked ponds and eat or kill everything they can catch. Now farmers and fishermen carry rifles with them and shoot the damned things when they can.
A lot of pest and dangerous animals to man or livestock were eliminated or nearly elimated by our ancestors because we were populating in greater numbers.
It’s silly of the enviro and animal rights people to think they can bring back all those species and live in harmony with man.
Most of that type live in cities anyway and don’t have the slightest idea what it’s like to have to put up with them on a daily basis.
“Te Tennessee Wildlife Agency reintroduced otters into the Buffalo River a few years ago. As a result, the fish population has gone down drastically and as the fish decline, the otters leave the river and get into farmers’ stocked ponds and eat or kill everything they can catch. Now farmers and fishermen carry rifles with them and shoot the damned things when they can.”
I didn’t know that. Back before I moved out here to Colorado the Beavers and Otters had moved into a section of the Harpeth river near Nashville and the enviros were having orgasms.