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Utah officials are about to embark on what they believe is the nation's biggest carp removal project. Later this year, commercial fishermen are expected to begin removing about 5 million pounds of carp from Utah Lake. Over six years, they hope to remove about 30 million pounds of the fish, which officials say is impeding efforts to recover a native species called the June sucker. The carp removal project got a boost this week with news that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is providing about $1 million for the work. State officials plan to match that federal grant with...

I am the owner of the lake located behind the old Rockmart High School on College Street. A few weeks ago I observed that there was something floating at the top of my lake and I called my grandson to come check out the situation. When my grandson arrived at my house, he and one of his friends floated out in the lake to see what it was. Once he was out in the boat, he realized that it was an injured carp that I had purchased when the fish was only 8 inches long. He and his friend pulled...

Fish flies out of lake, breaks Arkansas teen's jaw Sun Sep 7, 8:26 PM ET LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It's a fishing tale that packs a wallop so strong it broke the jaw of a southeastern Arkansas teen and covered him in fish blood and guts. Seth Russell, 15, of Crossett, was cruising Lake Chicot on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asian carp leaped from the water and smacked him in the face. Seth was knocked unconscious. "He doesn't remember anything at all," the boy's mother, Linda Russell, said last week. "He was laughing,...

So far we've heard bogus rumors that Sarah Palin had an affair, covered up her daughter's pregnancy by claiming her baby as her own, is a bad mother for running for VP with a baby and daughter who is pregnant, etc. Let's just go ahead and get all the possible rumors out of the way now so we don't have to put up with this carp for the next two months.

River's abundance of corpses ruins Iraqis' appetite for carp REUTERS July 11, 2007 BAGHDAD – River fish are off the menu in Baghdad. Dead bodies frequently pulled from the River Tigris have dulled the Iraqi capital's appetite for masqouf, its popular dish of grilled carp, after it was reported that clerics had warned that the fish dined on rotting corpses. “They spread rumors about the fish, that they eat the bodies of drowned people, but this is just a rumor,” said fisherman Hussein Ahmed, 62, after setting his nets within sight of the heavily fortified Green Zone compound on the...

Shooting carps in Wisconsin BY DAVE BARRY (This classic Dave Barry column was originally published June 25, 2000.) A fundamental belief held by Americans is that if you are on land, you cannot be killed by a fish. This belief has been reinforced by the Steven Spielberg movies ''Jaws,'' ''Jaws II,'' ''Jaws Goes to Porky's'' and ''Saving Private Ryan From Jaws,'' in which the only characters to die were the ones stupid enough to venture into the Atlantic Ocean, where even ankle-deep water often conceals predators the size of Winnebagos. So most Americans remain on land, believing they're safe. Unfortunately,...

A 45- to 50-pound grass carp, more commonly known as flying Asian carp, was caught in the Lower St. Croix River earlier this month, fueling concern about several types of Asian carp that are making their way up the Mississippi River from southern states, the Pioneer Press is reporting. A commercial fisherman caught the carp April 7 near Prescott, Wis., Jay Rendall, invasive species program coordinator for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, told the St. Paul paper. Grass carp are one of four species of Asian carp that were imported into the United States in the 1960s and '70s,...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fish that leap into passing boats may be a fisherman's fantasy, but scientists fear that hyperactive Asian carp will reach the U.S. Great Lakes, devour the base of the food chain and spoil drinking water for 40 million people. In less than a decade since escaping southern U.S. fish farms, the hardy and voracious carp have come to dominate sections of the Mississippi River and its tributaries. "It is a crisis," said Phil Moy of the University of Wisconsin and the government-affiliated water protection group Sea Grant. "We've seen some pretty significant adverse invaders in the Great...

HUNDREDS of pounds worth of ornamental fish have been stolen from outside the corporate headquarters of Hyundai UK, in Easton Street, High Wycombe. The theft of three ghost carp and eight comet goldfish was discovered by Hyundai data administrator Lindsey Morant on Tuesday last week. Ms Morant brought some fish food from home to entice the fish out of hiding after the cleaner reported that she hadn't seen them swimming about at all on Monday.

China: A Tiger-faced Carp A carp with a face resembling a tiger swims in the Wulong Pool at a park in Jinan, east China's Shandong province February 25, 2005. The strange fish was found by local residents and has drawn hundreds of visitors in the past two days. Staff at the park said some fish-lovers even called the park and offered a high price to buy the fish. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Newsphoto

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,...

In a sworn statement to be made public Tuesday, University of Colorado President Elizabeth Hoffman said a four-letter word used toward women can sometimes be used as a "term of endearment." The comment comes from Hoffman's latest sworn testimony in connection with a federal lawsuit against the university. The suit was filed by women who say they were sexually assaulted by CU football players and recruits. A lawyer for one of the women asked Hoffman about former CU kicker Katie Hnida being called the "c- word" by a teammate. That player was later disciplined by coach Gary Barnett for making...

<p>Remember these Asian fish species: silver carp and bighead carp.</p> <p>You will likely hear their names many times as Kentucky and neighboring states try to prevent the two invasive species from destroying sport and commercial fisheries, and endangering recreational boaters and water skiers.</p>

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Crazy carp have invaded Missouri's rivers. Two species of nonnative carp have been jumping into boats, injuring occupants and damaging the watercraft. A state fisheries biologist motoring near Columbia had a filling knocked out of his tooth by a high-flying fish that struck him on the side of the head. Another state biologist in the St. Charles area was seriously hurt when he was hit by a giant carp. Brian Todd of the Missouri Department of Conservation said the big head carp and silver carp were brought to private fish hatcheries from Asia by the aquaculture...

SANTA CRUZ — A 20-pound fish named Midas is dead, and the county District Attorney’s Office will soon be on the case. A member of the UC Santa Cruz fraternity Delta Omega Chi, now taking part in an MTV reality show, said two members were the koi-snatching culprits, but that the frat as a whole had nothing to do with the incident. Campus spokeswoman Liz Irwin confirmed two students have admitted filching the fish from a Porter College pond in the wee hours of May 20, but she declined to name them. Campus police turned the case over to the...

CARP bombshell: LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS SET WEBCAST ROYALTY RATES BASED ON YAHOO! DEAL THAT WAS DESIGNED TO REDUCE COMPETITION AND HURT SMALL WEBCASTERSBroadcast.com founder Mark Cuban tells "RAIN: Radio And Internet Newsletter" about the strategy behind the RIAA license that Billington used as template for the industry CHICAGO (6/24/02): The voluntary royalty deal between Yahoo! and the RIAA that the Librarian of Congress announced as his template for the entire industry last week was a deal crafted by Yahoo! to shut out small webcasters and decrease competition, Broadcast.com founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban revealed to "RAIN: Radio And...

May 21, 2002 The United States Copyright Office on Tuesday rejected an arbitration panel ruling on Webcasting royalty rates, a decision that brought smiles to the face of Internet radio executives nationwide. In a brief note posted on its Web site, the Librarian of Congress rejected the recommendation by the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP) that would have set royalty fees at 14/100 of a cent per performance, a price tag denounced by Webcasters as prohibitive. "The Register of Copyrights recommends, and the Librarian agrees, that the CARP's determination must be rejected. A final decision will be issued no...