Asian Carp Barrier Act - Healthy Lakes - Healthy Lives

[elmer]

We may have a chance to save the Great lakes if everyone jumps on the
band wagon and "encourages" extreme measures by the government to stop
this threat.
The idiots that imported these thing, in the first place, should be
forced to pay for eliminating them, if even possible.

http://www.healthylakes.org/policy/asian-carp-barrier-act

[mgg]

"elmer" <e...@f.udd> wrote in message
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Unfortunately, it's not possible, unless you kill everything else as well.

The key here is to try to find a use for them. We seem to be able to
fish/hunt everything else to near extinction. Are they edible? Probably, but
no one wants to eat carp... at least not in the US. So you gotta rename
them. I don't think that the name "patagonian toothfish" was too palatable
until it was renamed to "chilean sea bass. " Rename them, anything but
"carp."

Maybe they simply aren't palatable... even for fish sticks. I know nothing
about them. Maybe fertilizer? Hell, the pilgrims used to use lobster for
fertilizer, since they were so plentiful. Carp... the next lobster? Who
knows.

--Mike

[jpj...@psbnewton.com]

What you're suggesting isn't to far off from what is in this article;

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5542199

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[Grizzly]

In this case the fish weren't pet industry fish, nor were they imported
as a food species like the german carp were..The stupid friggin' federal
government imported them for use in sewage treatment plants..Big shitty
fish..I think people should catch them and mail them back to the federal
government..In fact I think we should have a send a carp to D.C.
campaign wherebye each and every senator, congressman and other federal
official recieves a percentage of the carp population via the mail, UPS,
and FedEx..They should of course be at least three days old upon arrival
and not packed in ice..

[jpj...@psbnewton.com]

Here are a couple of videos clips that illustrate the direct dangers
posed to boaters;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS7zkTnQVaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ChwJiKKBdA

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per jpj...@psbnewton.com:

>Here are a couple of videos clips that illustrate the direct dangers
>posed to boaters;
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS7zkTnQVaM
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ChwJiKKBdA

Is it the noise from the boat's motor that makes them jump?
--
PeteCresswell

[jpj...@psbnewton.com]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:28:55 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)" <x...@y.Invalid>
wrote:

That's my understanding. But the carp will jump ahead of an
approaching boat, too. I'm no expert, though. I was speaking with a
retired CAT employee last year who belongs to a Carp Anglers Group in
the Tazewell county area. He told of an an incident in which an Asian
Carp hit a boater in the face, knocking her out of her boat. The
water wasn't deep where she fell in; but, where she fell was very
muddy. Her face was very bloodied, and being stuck in the mud and
water up to her shoulders, she had to wait for someone to come along
to extract her. This apparently happened on the Illinois River.