No Place for Fish with No Name December 6, 2001 11:20 am EST

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Fishermen in Gabon demonstrated in protest against the "fish with no name" wiping out other species in the central African country.

The villain, known outside Gabon as the African Bony-Tongue or Heterotis niloticus, was introduced accidentally to the 620-mile-long Ogooue river in the 1980s.

Scores of fishermen demonstrated Wednesday against the fish which they call the "No Name" in Gabon's second city of Port Gentil, residents there said.

Although prized for its flesh, Gabon's fishermen blame the fish for the disappearance of other species by gobbling up all available food.

A native of the Nile and West Africa's Senegal and Niger rivers, the heavily-scaled Bony-Tongue is popular with aquarium keepers when small, but it can grow up to one yard long.

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2001