Posted on 10/14/2004 2:31:06 PM PDT by Willie Green
Once again, man steps forward to tinker with nature in order to fix the damage done by man's previous tinkering with nature.
And this time it's only going to cost taxpayers a little more than $9 million.
In two weeks, the Army Corps of Engineers will begin building a permanent electric barrier to keep Asian carp from swimming into the Great Lakes.
Asian carp are a big threat. Literally. They can grow up to 150 pounds and gobble as much as 40 percent of their body weight a day. According to Tom Henry, a reporter with The Blade in Toledo, Ohio, each female carries up to a million eggs, making them capable of colonizing the Great Lakes.
The Asian carp were never meant for the Great Lakes. In fact, they were never meant for the Great Western Hemisphere. That's why they're called Asian carp.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
Carp Diem! Sieze The Fish!
That would be "Carpe Carp". "Carp Diem" is fish-of-the-day.
Would that not be "Fish the day" ?
"some fish farmers down in Arkansas thought it would be a good idea to import Asian carp from China to eat up all the pond scum in their hatcheries."
Another harmful 'gift' from Arkansas.
I thought the Great Lakes were all shot from zebra mussels. Whatever happened to them?
...hmmm....some seem to be carping about your latin.
Would that mean Strone Diem is Soup-of-the-day ?
Still there, but dang, the lake sure is clean!
Sounds like Rosanne or Rosie.
The little expletives-deleted are still there :(
I'll never tell. You can't make me. Torture me if you like.
There going to spend $9M on a barrier, but all likelood some jerk read about it and decide to throw some Asian carp in the lake.
Perhaps, in "mini" quantities.
the zebra mussles arent even talked about anymore.. are they still a problem? i dont know, but DAMM you are right - the lake water is crystal clear lately (great for scuba)
I know & it seems to be a strange, unexpected consequence.
After I heard that they raised the water quality, reports about them seem to have dropped to nil.
Unless you are in France, where it would be carp de jure
My French spelling ability is non existant.
I never ventured far up north but somewhere “up there” he claimed they had some sort of sturgeon or something that were huge. He was probably 6 feet tall and 185 pounds and claimed the fish were big enough to eat him.
In the summer I live on the lake and winter just a few miles away. I am awestruck every time I look at it. It's a sight to behold!
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