This fish with human like teeth is inflicting issues in Arizona

 An Arizona trained worker had associate sudden catch of the day this month once he reeled during a fish with human-like teeth.

Jeff Evans, UN agency was fishing on the side of Tucson's Silverbell Lake on January. 12, told the Arizona Daily Star that the fish even tried to bite him some times.

The creature was later known as a pacu fish, native to South America and a relative of the piranha, in keeping with the Arizona Game and Fish Department in urban center.

Game and Fish does not stock waterways with pacu fish, in keeping with voice Mark Hart. those that show up in community waters begin out as pets that folks dump into lakes once they get too massive to manage, he said. 

 Hart aforementioned folks merchandising in urban center waters is AN current downside.

"What they do not notice is that invasive species force out native species," he said. "It's a foul apply, and folks don't need to destroy one thing that is been a pet. however it isn't useful and may cause some confusion."

Kevin Airola, WHO works at the ocean bottom marine museum and tropical-fish store in Phoenix, aforementioned they usually don't have any over 5 pacu fish available at any given time.

The attract of the pacu fish is that it's therefore kind of like a piranha, Airola aforementioned, however its adult size willcreate it a less-than-ideal pet: The pacu will become old to two feet long. 

 "We do the most effective we are able to with explaining to individuals the scale. one in all the negatives of owning a pacu is that they get quite giant," he said, adding that those unbroken in aquariums can even be predatory, snacking on worms and tiny fish. Pacu principally eat plants.

Don Mitchell, Arizona Game and Fish regional aquatic life program supervisor, same pacu fish are literally on Arizona's restricted life list of animals that can't be closely-held while not a allow.

Mitchell same one downside is that individuals obtain pacu fish while not permits and, oftentimes, whoever is commercialism pacu fish do not know the life laws.

"They're simply there," he said. "You will even obtain them with the net." 

 Mitchell aforementioned that, in twenty six years, he has seen regarding ten to twelve pacu fish in Arizona waters.

Game and Fish in metropolis stocks lakes with rainbow trout in cold-weather months and catfish and sunfish in warm-weather months, consistent with Hart.

He aforementioned he needs to lift awareness of the matter with non-native species and urged folks notice a higherchoice to get eliminate pacu, like taking it back to the pet store.

Airola, too, is alert to the problems of merchandising pacu fish into lakes and ponds. He aforementioned customers United Nations agency will now not lookout of the fish could bring it back to the ocean bottom, that lief takes fish back on donation.