Well, Great Lakes, It Was Nice Knowing You. Asian Carp Have Arrived.

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[Right Wing Assault]

Based on your post #17 and my #19, I think Alison Fairbrother needs to work on “attention to details.”

Two fictitious schools in one paragraph.

[Hot Tabasco]

I wonder how well that carp will do once those big Northern Pikes get at them.

As small fry, they're going to be a great food source for the walleye, lake trout, salmon and bass too........

[Hot Tabasco]

we should be allowed to shoot them out of boats with shotguns.

Gotta use steel shot, the lead shot pollutes the lakes........LOL!

[JoeProBono]

[NY.SS-Bar9]

Got anything for Cicadas?

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

A company in Illinois makes fertilizer out of the Asian carp. Check out Schafer Fisheries in Thompson Ill. I am trying it out on the farm his year. Organic 100%.

It is liquid and smells like grandma before she showers but you get used to it.

It feeds soil microbes that tend to the roots and helps break down the fertilizers into usable forms for the plants.

[chicagolady]

The Illegal Invasion Continues!

[mohresearcher]

The Great Lakes are also subject to massive algae blooms that destroy oxygen needed by all fish.

The asian carp are a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to the fish populations in the Great Lakes, and every effort should be made to eradicate these destructive fish.

[Rebelbase]

No photoshop, those are real Sheepshead teeth.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“My personal opinion is we should be allowed to shoot them out of boats with shotguns.”

Sporting Carps. :-)

[cripplecreek]

As usual, lots of stupidity with no real answers.



Michigan legislative action thread

[Mr Rogers]

“I find the phrase “invasive species” racist, “specist,” and judgmental.”

May I suggest, “Undocumented carp”?

[cripplecreek]

Its certainly not funny if you make your living off the great lakes sportfishing industry which is worth between 7 and 10 billion per year in Michigan alone.

It would have been so much easier to just shut down the Chicago sewage canal but Obama stepped in on behalf of his Chicago buddies (plus appointed 2 separate czars to not deal with the same issue)

[Cyber Liberty]

Never heard that. Just called it “Cooper Street.”

[Squawk 8888]

To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.

Canada Ping!

[cripplecreek]

I wouldn’t say goodbye to the great lakes exactly but its going to cost taxpayers millions per year to control the carp like it does to control the sea lampreys.

[cripplecreek]

Never heard that. Just called it “Cooper Street.”

That's the local name.

[Darren McCarty]

Asian(silver) carp are a problem but I have a question. Where the Hellis Southern Michigan University? I’ve never heard of that. Northern, Central, and Eastern, yes.

[hinckley buzzard]

If you cause any perturbations in fisheries like Lake Erie’s walleye and yellow perch fisheries, that could be hugely problematic.”

A bit tangential, but note how the recovery of the "dead" Lake Erie is taken for granted by this statement. In the 1970's environmental wackoes were saying that the only fish left were weird mutants who could live on toxic waste. So much for "science" liberal style.

[hinckley buzzard]

The sheephead is also known as freshwater drum, and colloquially as the "sewer inspector" because they can be found around warm water outlets along the shoreline. Bottom feeders, iow, and yes they love to eat mussels and the like. Nature restores the balance.