Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee
"As we begin 2013, I think it's important to note that the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee (ACRCC) made significant progress in 2012 along a number of fronts in our efforts to prevent Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes. For example, the electrical dispersal barriers are now operating at optimal parameters; no new live Asian carp have been found in the CAWS above the electric dispersal barriers, with over 40,000 hours of netting, electrofishing, and keen observation by experienced fisheries biologists; and we're making advances on efforts to identify technologies to control or eradicate Asian carp."
http://asiancarp.us/
Zebra mussel, that, I don't have a recipe for.
/johnny
****Ever since Asian carp were accidentally introduced into U.S. rivers in the 1970s, the invasive fish****
Invasive fish? If I remember correctly the European carp was introduced in the 1800s by the US government.
The Asian grass carp was introduced on purpose in the 1970s to clean up waterways and ponds clogged with moss.
I wonder how well that carp will do once those big Northern Pikes get at them. Not many Pikes in the rivers, but plenty in the lakes if I recall correctly.
There is a canal within walking distance of my house and I sometimes fish for them there. They bite readily on white bread pinched onto a number 6 hook. They get huge and put up a great fight. I pull them up out of the canal, step on them so I can retrieve the hook, then kick them back in. I would eat them except that they are so disgusting and they grow a coating of slime that really stinks. That's why I handle them the way I do.
This guy caught a good one:
Good control tactic is eating them. I hear they are quite good when smoked . . .
“Southern Michigan University”
No such thing. Although this is the nickname of the penitentiary in Jackson.
>> I knew about Asian carp. My wife carps all the time, but she’s not Asian.
But does she comprain or the time?
No such place that I know of in the USA.
There is a Notre Dame de Namur University in Silicon Valley. There is a Notre Dame of Maryland University in Baltimore. There is one in Lebanon. And another in Mindanao.
But there is a University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
I always worry about articles that start of with a mistake in the first few sentences. Kind of like calling the University of Texas by the name 'Texas University.'
How about "uninvited lake inhabitant?"
Regards,
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.
The Illegal Invasion Continues!
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.
Canada Ping!
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.
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.
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.
