All they need is to post a bounty of $1 a fish or so and let all the young boys near the Great Lakes loose with fishing poles.
The lakes would be cleaned out of Asian carp in a hurry.
Now that makes sense but we’re getting a Carp Czar to oversee the education, training and licensing of Federally-approved Carp Catchers.
Can’t have just any ol’ people out there stomping around in potential wetlands, using non-OSHA compliant poles or anything but “PETA-approved, cruelty free, free range” bait ya know!
Not according to The Toledo Blade or scientists. Question I have is why has the fisheries department allowed the algae to accumulate this long (5 years) without getting it under control? Sounds to me like they need to be replaced with competent management (people who would have been doing something to correct the problem when it was first noticed rather than waiting for scientific backup).
Other states, by the way, have boat inspections (all boats must stop) for prevention of such infestation of lakes and waterways.
Toxic algae blooms choking Lake Erie
After years of recovery, Lake Erie is sick again. Ask the boaters who get the spinach-like clumps of algae on their boat propellers, the tourists grossed out by the sight of pea-green water, the property owners picking up whiffs of stench, the beach-goers confronted by signs urging them to stay out of the water, and the scientists who have said at conferences for at least five years that an ecological backslide is in progress.