non-native life should not be supported as part of a current ecosystem. that ecosystem was there before the introduced spieces was there. removing the invasve/non-native will have an impact at the begining but the ecosystem will bounce back.

again, things start small and then tend to blow up and cause huge problems. take the green mussel as an example. it was found in tampa bay to start. not too big of a deal right? you can now find them everywhere in the bay and they have now started to move south and many fear they will soon be on the east coast of FL. they casue millions of dollars of damage to the extent that electric companies have included the cost of removing them from their intake pipes in peoples bills.

now we have lion fish. there has been few reports to show that they have a negative impact. their numbers are climbing rapidly and they have no predators. should we leave them? absolutely not! i don't care how pretty they are, they should be killed on sight if they are in atlantic waters. it is only a matter of time until they replace some other native speices due to out competing them for food.

the list of non-native species here in FL continues to rise. and i get real tired of the arguments for leaving them here. they are not part of the previous ecosystem and should be removed regaurdless if they help support native life and reguardless if they are pretty.