Westwood wrote on May 6^th, 2011 at 2:38am:

Android, In most if not all MN water the small mouth bass is a native species.  The small mouth bass is not native to the Arctic watershed.  At the gathering in Madison at Canoecopia, I spoke with Doug from WCPP about smallmouth bass.  In the WCPP pamphlet, it had a red x over a picture of a smallmouth bass.  Then on the same page they had restrictions on when and what size of smallmouth bass you could keep.  I asked Doug why not let anglers catch and keep any size of bass any time of the year.  There is an internal debate on how to treat smallmouth bass.  It will be interesting to see what the final decision will be. So let me see if I understand you, invasive is different than non-native just like you can have six or a half dozen.Westwood

Westwood,
I remember hearing stories of our canoe camping fore fathers transplanting SM into lakes where they were not native. So maybe they are native to the mississippi basin but not to the arrowhead regoin. I guess I assumed you were talking about the BWCA. Either way I would say there is a huge difference between non native and invasive. Milfoil=invasive....Ring neck Pheasant=non native  ;)