Sidestreamer
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Then you haven't checked out the endangered species act lately. For instance there exist a peculiar little fish that once shut down several construction projects in and around San Fancisco Bay because the environmental crowd decided they were an endangered species. Turns out they were half right. The little fishies are endangered when they are in San Francisco Bay. You see that isn't there natural habitat. The only time they ever enter the Bay is when a powerful storm blows them in they are normally open ocean residents where they exist in the millions but they are still listed as an endangered species.
So the question then is what kind of ecological purpose they serve in the bay? If they are common in the Pacific but rare in San Francisco Bay, I would think they still fit somewhere in the food chain there or they feed upon something, or do something that sustains the overall environment. Just looking at your post I can't pretend to know what that would be, I'm not an ecologist, but just because they are plentiful elsewhere doesn't mean they shouldn't be protected.