Asian Carp: Another Stream Invasion

[oneshot]

Ahh heck yeah, just call it FISH SPAM. It'll be flying off the shelves much like the carp themselves were just hours before.

Mmmmm, FISH SPAM Taco's!!!!

Use to see Carp in the Meat Section of the stores all the time.

oneshot

[rainbow]

There is a start up plant in Illinois upriver from St. Louis. They are going to buy Asian carp from fishermen and process it for China. Huge demand over there. If it becomes a food fish that will help control it. They are going to call it Silver Fish. Many don't know it but Chilean sea bass is the result of a marketing program by Chile for the Patagonian tooth fish that while very good eating is ugly as all get out. I am sure that private enterprise can help solve this problem especially if the government stays out of it.

[sitting fishing]

I think that is the official story and probably true. The problem I have is that they were ever allowed in. The same thing with snakeheads in the east. It would take and idiot, or government official that could care less to not know that eventual escape was likely.

The early grass carp introductions were guaranteed to be safe because they were either sterile or one gender, it depended on which official report you read. They have worked well in ponds where only one was present and there was no danger of escape. Mart your friend will probably regret removing the grassie, especially if there are cattle near the pond.

The Osage river below Bagnell is in jeopardy for sure. You'd think that depletion of the MDC's beloved spoonbill would have them on a full-out crusade to control asian carp, but it seems that hands have been thrown in the air and the river surrendered to them.

WHY NOT GET OBAMA to create a new program designed to increase their population and increase the number of waters they can be found ???

[Mark]

Wouldn't work - Republicans would vote it down as they have vowed to do every piece of legislation proposed by Democrats - talk about childish!!!

Maybe send Chaney with a bottle of Jim Beam and a shotgun

[bfishn]

Contrary to the popular internet myth, silver carp (the ubiquitous jumpers that are freaking people out), weren't accidentally released to the wild by some careless Arkansas fish farmer. Wild samples were reported 2 years prior to aquaculture use. The facts as reported by some folks that were involved and there at the time;

http://www.fisheriessociety.org/proofs/iac/kellytwo.pdf

Start near the end of page 5, continue thru p7. Only one of the authors is involved in private aquaculture, the rest are or were employed by public agencies, seeking to find non-chemical alternatives to cleaning wastewater. It would be easy to let the rumors alone, virtually ensuring history blames the fish farmer. I find it admirable that some of those involved came out to try to set the record straight, especially for no personal gain.

[Quillback]

Well at this point who done what doesn't really matter that much.

That whole rebranding thing Rainbow is talking about was tried with Chum salmon. Chums have a bad rap because as soon as they hit the rivers they deteriorate quickly, but if you catch them in the salt water, bleed them and ice them right away they are tasty. So the salmon industry came up with a marketing campaign and sold them as "Silver Brite" salmon.

[bluebasser86]

This video was on a crappie fishing forum and I thought it was pretty interesting.

[Mitch f]

Very depressing

[chambug]

We can hope that nature will solve the problem....like a spell of the coldest winter we have seen in decades.

[fishinwrench]

We can hope that nature will solve the problem....like a spell of the coldest winter we have seen in decades.

Doubt that'd do it. They'd just retreat downstream a ways and come right back in the Spring.

Maybe once they (or we) get the water cleaned up the filter feeder population will diminish somewhat.