Posted on 04/23/2009 5:02:59 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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 an additional $510,000.
Hey, maybe we can get the govt to pay us to fish!
A lot of people might consider them garbage fish, but you haven’t angled until you’ve got a 25-lb. carp on the end of 5-lb. test using ultralight tackle. (Extra points if you have to construct a jury-rigged net, as my old fishing gang did, in order to lift caught carp vertically 15 feet up the side of the bridge you’re fishing from!)
They aren’t Carp, they’re Goldfish. In these potentially inflationary times, Goldfish can be a good investment.
#1 Are carps good eatin'?
#2 If #1 is "yes" then why is it going to cost the taxpayers 1.5 million dollars?
#3 is this part of that economic stimulus plan from OBAMA!?
Around the Great Lakes they have the affectionate nickname of "sewer inspectors." We don't eat them, for reasons one may deduce.
LOL!
These aren’t the triploid variant of carp, are they?
Grass carp(the triploid variant) are increasingly being used here to reduce vegitation without the risk that reproductive carp carry.
Saw a blue heron due that last summer with a duckling. If you’ve seen a blue heron, you can imagine how impressive the sight.
Can’t imagine what the real result will be. This sort of project never goes as planned.
I can remember my dad taking us kids to Utah Lake to fish for carp. They were big fish, usually around 10 pounds. I don’t remember eating them, but I remember dad catching them and reeling them in. The lake is shallow, and quite warm in the summer, which makes fish grow fast.
Isn't gefilte fish made from carp?
Good luck.
In Lake Davis (CA) $21 million has been spent on eradication efforts of the non-native Northern Pike Since 2000, which included attempts to poison the entire fish population of the lake.
Fish and Game has a full-time team of 35 employees working on the pike effort.
What’s wrong with “Northerns”, as we called them in Wisconsin?
Fierce fighting fish and good eatin’, too.
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