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Crazy Carp Have Invaded Missouri's River
NW Cable News ^
| 08/28/03
| Staff Writer
Posted on 08/28/2003 7:31:09 AM PDT by bedolido
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Crazy carp have invaded Missouri's rivers. Two species of nonnative carp have been jumping into boats, injuring occupants and damaging the watercraft.
A state fisheries biologist motoring near Columbia had a filling knocked out of his tooth by a high-flying fish that struck him on the side of the head. Another state biologist in the St. Charles area was seriously hurt when he was hit by a giant carp.
Brian Todd of the Missouri Department of Conservation said the big head carp and silver carp were brought to private fish hatcheries from Asia by the aquaculture industry. They were intended to eat excess algae and waste in aquaculture ponds - which grow fish for food as well as bait and tropical fish. But they escaped in floodwaters in 1993, 1995 and 2002.
"This could be an indefinite problem," Todd said. "They are safe to eat, but ecologically they could damage the mussel population and are competing with native fish for food. We are going to hear more and more over the next few years about the problems these fish are causing, especially injuries to boaters and anglers."
Todd said the carp have been spotted in many of Missouri's rivers, including throughout the Missouri River.
"The sound of a propeller under water makes these fish go crazy," Todd said. "The fish don't jump if you're sitting there without the motor on, but the higher the RPMs, the greater the noise, the higher these fish jump."
Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: carp; crazy; environment; fishing; flyingfish; invaded; missouris; river
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To: carptracker
Somebody please tell a newbie what PING means? Not sure I understand some of what is going on.
To: glock rocks
New recipe ping!
62
posted on
12/21/2003 12:03:46 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
(NASCAR...everything else is just a game!)
To: ChefKeith; Pete-R-Bilt
well smack me in the head with a carp!
High RPM boat motor ping, Pete! (bet yer smallblock Evinrude will make em totally nuts!)
63
posted on
12/21/2003 12:15:56 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(molon labe)
To: carptracker
Welcome to Free Republic.
"Ping" means "hey, come look at this thread over here"
on the news page, on the top right, is "my comments"
when someone replies to you, this will change to "new posts to you" and if you click there, you'll see this post from me. that's a ping. click on the number below my name on that entry (it will look like "64 of 64" or something similar), and it will take you exactly to this post.
64
posted on
12/21/2003 12:19:43 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(molon labe)
To: glock rocks
Thanks, Glock. Starting to catch on now.
To: glock rocks
My brother had a drum jump in the boat one night years ago when it grounded on a sandbar, the fish was so big it would not fit in the 4' long igloo cooler they had.
66
posted on
12/21/2003 12:39:46 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
(NASCAR...everything else is just a game!)
To: carptracker
67
posted on
12/21/2003 12:42:02 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(molon labe)
To: carptracker
"...but it is illegal to shoot fish with a firearm in Missouri. That's the funniest thing I have read in quite awhile. Welcome to Free Republic.
68
posted on
12/21/2003 1:44:27 PM PST
by
forester
To: Skylight
"Wasn't that by the Salmon Skeins?"....Nah,
the---- SouthEastern Florida Flounders
69
posted on
12/21/2003 1:52:40 PM PST
by
litehaus
To: carptracker
Okay then, contests with purses provided by entry fees.
70
posted on
12/21/2003 7:14:58 PM PST
by
tiki
To: cajun-jack
Yes, I've never met a Louisiana man yet who wasn't a fantastic hunter, fisherman and cook. I love Louisiana men. They are the cream of the crop, if you ask me! I've been married to my wonderful Louisiana country boy for 14 years now. He's a fine cook, too, just like his brother.
I'm real familiar with John Folse. I used to watch him all the time when I lived down in Louisiana and when I lived in Texas, too. I spent four or five years at Mamou and Eunice, so I had a chance to experience some of the finest Cajun cooking in the world. There are some little old ladies around that neck of the woods who are outstanding cooks.
To: carpio
I'll have to try them your way. Maybe when warm weather gets here again?
To: g'nad; osagebowman
Master Anglers, for your enjoyment ...
73
posted on
12/22/2003 9:41:40 PM PST
by
Rose in RoseBear
(HHD [Visit THORLO SOCKS at http://www.thorlo.com! They support our troops!])
To: ChefKeith
My brother had a drum jump in the boat one night years ago when it grounded on a sandbar, the fish was so big it would not fit in the 4' long igloo cooler they had. who exactly was grounded on the sandbar?
pardon my desert upbringing, but does one bbq a drum?
74
posted on
12/23/2003 4:11:19 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(molon labe)
To: glock rocks
A freshwater drum is a fish, also known locally as sheepshead or gaspergou. I could imagine one getting cornered between a boat and a sandbar and somehow jumping in a boat, although it would really weird. (just guessing, I bet this is a misidentification of a silver carp, which is large and silvery like a freshwater drum - but it could happen with a drum, once in a few lifetimes.) Freshwater drum are excellent blackened, but if you freeze the meat it is ruined.
To: glock rocks
They were in a small (?10-12'?) skif one of the first boats He had fishing at night with a trolling motor and the fish was snoozing when they grounded.
IIRC they gave it to some "brothers" at work and the next day was told it ate "real good", personally I would not waste the wood on cooking it.
76
posted on
12/23/2003 5:23:30 PM PST
by
ChefKeith
(NASCAR...everything else is just a game!)
To: carptracker
Freshwater drum are excellent blackened, but if you freeze the meat it is ruined. Tracker,
I have eaten vast amounts of fresh water drum in my long career of fresh water fish eating. I usually only eat the smaller ones of say 3-4 ponds or less. Often I filet them and freeze the filets in plastic baggies of water for some time prior to eating them.
I handle all fish very carefully and all suffer a little bit from freezing but I don't notice fresh water Drum to be any more delicate than others in this respect.
Have you actually frozen the Drum yourself (properly) and then tried them? Or have you just eaten some that were frozen by someone perhaps less careful than yourself?
Just curious because I think I am pretty picky and I don't notice any harm from freezing Drum. While on the other hand I almost never freeze Carp because I have had very bad luck with the ill effects of freezing on them.
Carpio
77
posted on
12/27/2003 3:06:29 PM PST
by
carpio
To: carpio
Carpio - thanks very much for the response. I'm very interested in your reply. I will give freezing drum another try. But my two attempts at freezing freshwater drum have not met with success. Neither of those attempts were frozen in water. I usually only freeze fish in water if I expect to keep the meat more than two or three weeks. I usually consider the water a defense against freezer burn, which is not a problem with short term freezing. And I think sometimes fish that is frozen with more than a thin film of water does not taste as good to me, or cook as well, because it becomes water-logged and leaches out some of the flavor. But the drum had another problem. I (surprisingly) found the frozen and then thawed drum to be tough as boot leather. The stuff was even hard to cut. So I have not frozen drum since. It is a funny thing, because most fish, especially some fish in the drum family (especialy the trout-form drums, like silver seatrout and sand seatrout) become extremely soft if frozen. The bootleather thing has only happened to me with freshwater drum, but it has happened twice. Nevertheless, my experiences with fresh freshwater drum have been every bit as good as its saltwater cousin the redfish. Blackened drum with Paul Prudhomme's blackened redfish seasoning is absolutely great.
To: Dick Vomer
HOLY CARP, BATMAN!
79
posted on
12/27/2003 7:28:50 PM PST
by
Blue Collar Christian
(Part of the Vast Right Wing Apparatus since Ford lost. ><BCC>)
To: carptracker
Freshwater drum are excellent blackened You might want to check for parasitic cysts / dermal neoplasms in drum.
80
posted on
12/27/2003 7:39:45 PM PST
by
bwteim
(Begin With The End In Mind)
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