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Michigan to offer prize in fight against invasive Asian carp
AP via Yahoo ^ | March 5, 2017 | Chris Ehrmann

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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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: carp; fish
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To: BlueDragon

They’re actually in the same family of fish as tilapia.

CC


41 posted on 03/05/2017 10:14:03 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Celtic Conservative
"How do they taste?"
"Not great. They’re bottom feeders."

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...

42 posted on 03/05/2017 10:23:32 PM PST by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: jonascord

Flenty of healthy fiber in the plank.

LOL

CC


43 posted on 03/05/2017 10:26:23 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Flenty=plenty. I is tired.

CC


44 posted on 03/05/2017 10:27:56 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Put the Federal Government in charge of Increasing the species.

This will work, as long as the carp can't vote.

45 posted on 03/05/2017 10:41:03 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Leaning Right
Two similar technologies that show promise for eradicating invasive fish are genetically modified "daughter-less males" and "Trojan-Y" chromosomes.

Screw worm fly was extirpated from the USA starting in the late 1950s by releasing swarms of radiation-sterilized males.

46 posted on 03/05/2017 10:50:32 PM PST by Spirochete (GOP: Give Obama Power)
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To: Leaning Right

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.


47 posted on 03/05/2017 10:51:27 PM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Feed them to the democrats — they’re also bottom feeders.


48 posted on 03/05/2017 10:55:04 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

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.

49 posted on 03/05/2017 11:16:33 PM PST by BlueDragon (my kinfolk had to fight off wagon burnin' scalp taking Comanches, reckon we could take on a few more)
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To: Lean-Right; Leaning Right

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.

50 posted on 03/05/2017 11:23:58 PM PST by BlueDragon (my kinfolk had to fight off wagon burnin' scalp taking Comanches, reckon we could take on a few more)
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To: BlueDragon
Someone has to like them, they escaped from a commercial fish farm in a flood.

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.

51 posted on 03/05/2017 11:25:12 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Leaning Right
golf course alligator with fish in its mouth
 
Here's the solution. Introduce gators.
52 posted on 03/05/2017 11:27:13 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: dp0622

...And in this corner puddle, we've got Whopping Wilbur, weighing in at 37 9/10 lbs...

53 posted on 03/05/2017 11:29:43 PM PST by BlueDragon (my kinfolk had to fight off wagon burnin' scalp taking Comanches, reckon we could take on a few more)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Catholic Church should make it a rule that Fridays in Lent are Asian Carp days served with hushpuppies and cole slaw.


54 posted on 03/05/2017 11:33:06 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

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".

55 posted on 03/05/2017 11:34:22 PM PST by BlueDragon (my kinfolk had to fight off wagon burnin' scalp taking Comanches, reckon we could take on a few more)
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To: jonascord

>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.


56 posted on 03/05/2017 11:41:29 PM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: gundog

“...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.


57 posted on 03/05/2017 11:48:15 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: BlueDragon

lol


58 posted on 03/05/2017 11:55:38 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Leaning Right

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.


59 posted on 03/05/2017 11:56:34 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: 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.”

Dump 50,000 truckloads of dirt/rocks in the Chicago locks so it no longer connects to Lake Michigan.


60 posted on 03/06/2017 12:48:22 AM PST by Beagle8U (Long live Yoga Pants! ( and boycott 84 lumber. Let's bankrupt the bastards!))
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