|
|
|
CLAY -- It appears that the controversy surrounding "Rocky", the snakehead fish, isn’t going away.
Rocky’s owner, Chris Deverso, says the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is renewing its efforts to take Rocky away from him. Deverso, who is from Clay, says he spent about three hours on the phone with the DEC yesterday. According to Deverso, the DEC says it’s still planning to come and take Rocky. Deverso told the DEC they will need "a warrant and a battering ram" to get into his house. The DEC says the snakehead fish is a threat to other species if it were ever to wind up in a body of water.
Deverso thinks he has found a way to save Rocky. He claims biologists with the Department of Natural Resources in Maryland actually studied 29 different species of snakehead fish and found Rocky's species is a tropical kind that can't harm our waterways, unlike northern snakeheads. Using that information, Deverso says he wants to get the current law changed so Rocky would be legal.
Popular Stories
|
