Here's the solution. Introduce gators.
Posted on 03/05/2017 9:05:27 PM PST by Leaning Right
Faced with the threat that Asian carp could enter the Great Lakes, Michigan is turning to the public for new ideas and plans to offer a prize to whoever comes up with a way to stop the voracious fish.
Michigan's global search challenge comes after the U.S. government and others have spent hundreds of millions searching for a solution to stop the carp from entering the world's largest freshwater system. If they aren't stopped, officials fear the aggressive fish will crowd out prize native fish and hamper recreational boating in large sections of the lakes...
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They’re actually in the same family of fish as tilapia.
CC
Even better. Peddle them as 100% organic and artisan grown, pre-moistened, and charge $175/lb., limited to a single shop on the Upper West Side.
The trick to cooking them is to nail them to a cedar plank, skinned, hand rubbed with cumin, oregano, stone ground pepper, roasted over a slow flame and basted with clarified butter.
Then, take off the fish, throw it away, and eat the plank...
Flenty of healthy fiber in the plank.
LOL
CC
Flenty=plenty. I is tired.
CC
This will work, as long as the carp can't vote.
Screw worm fly was extirpated from the USA starting in the late 1950s by releasing swarms of radiation-sterilized males.
Shock the river with
DC voltage. The fish
will be stunned and
float to the surface.
Then it’s a matter of
scooping them up with
nets.
We did this on our stock
ponds (using an old crank
style phone) to rid the
ponds of carp.
We contacted a fish biologist
while trying to figure out
how the carp infested the
ponds to begin with. The
culprit was birds with the
carp eggs sticking to the
bills and feet of the birds.
Then would land from pond
to pond, distributing the
carp eggs. We couldn’t stop
the birds, so we shocked
the ponds once a year.
We stocked the ponds with
bluegill and large mouth bass.
After a few minutes, the stocked
fish would “wake up” and swim off.
Feed them to the democrats — they’re also bottom feeders.
Ok.
Still, the point I was trying to get across is the Asian carp are not 'bottom feeders' like the German Brown (otherwise known as "common") carp are.
Some years back an electric fence of sorts was installed in the upper reaches of the Illinois River, right below the last lock -- I think.
The biologists use that very method when doing carp surveys. There are you-tube videos of it being done.
You must be talking about common carp?
I've been wondering if the Asian carp can spread to waters they are not contiguous with in similar manner, but don't know much of anything about how they spawn, when and where it's preffered by the Asian type, etc.
The way I've seen it explained was that the carp had been introduced into the fish farms to check/control growth of algae.
Carp is a delicacy in Eastern Europe. As others have noted, because carp are bottom feeders there is a dirt taste to the flesh of wild caught carp. To get around this fish farmers take carp and put them in pens that are elevated off of the bottom, basically starving them and flushing them out with fresh water until the dirt taste goes away and you end up with a decent tasting fish. This could have been what was going on at the farm they escaped from.
...And in this corner puddle, we've got Whopping Wilbur, weighing in at 37 9/10 lbs...
Catholic Church should make it a rule that Fridays in Lent are Asian Carp days served with hushpuppies and cole slaw.
As I've noted, repeatedly, the Asian carp are not bottom feeders in the same way common (German Brown) carp are.
These Asian carp much prefer to feed on plankton and small bits of vegetation.
Once people get that through their heads, they'll be more likely to try eating some of it.
'Merica could eat it's way part-way out of "the problem".
>Then, take off the fish, throw it away, and eat the plank.<
Sheesh, I first heard that joke when I served in the USAF in Galena, AS in 1957.
“...but a kick in the rear to fish for with a bow.”
We used to do that as kids. One time I met up with a buddy from to fish at his hang out. He saw my bow with the spool and line and said “Oh - that’s not how we do it.”
It was in more of a swamp than a river. Shoot them without the string, and then we would go running through the swamp after the carp with an arrow sticking out of his back. Looking back it may not have been the safest or kindest thing to be doing. (I don’t know - can you be “mean” to a carp?)
I think carp are a big game fish in England and France - although not sure if it is the same type. We never ate ours. One guy would use them for fertilizer.
lol
It’s brilliant!! I’ll start working on a plan right away :)
Would probably involve a dem as they can get anyone to hate and fight.
“Faced with the threat that Asian carp could enter the Great Lakes, Michigan is turning to the public for new ideas and plans to offer a prize to whoever comes up with a way to stop the voracious fish.”
Dump 50,000 truckloads of dirt/rocks in the Chicago locks so it no longer connects to Lake Michigan.
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