[quote]
More Asian carp DNA has turned up in Lake Erie, accelerating the urgent need for Congress and the Obama administration to push the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to move faster on a long-term solution to the threat posed by the voracious fish.
Twenty of 150 water samples collected in early August from Lake Erie's Sandusky Bay included DNA of silver carp, the species that captures attention by leaping into the air when scared by boat motors. It is one of four main species of Asian carp, and one of the two that are the biggest threats to the Great Lakes region's $7 billion fishery.
The other is Asian bighead carp, which are larger and eat more. Bighead carp weigh up to 100 pounds. Asian carp disrupt the food chain and threaten to devour other species in the waterways they invade.
The Obama administration has invested much time and effort in helping the president's home state of Illinois fend off efforts to suspend shipping in the Chicago Area Waterway System temporarily to address the carp threat. Otherwise, the lakes region would be further ahead.
It's not known whether Lake Erie has Asian carp. If so, there's no way to know if they arrived through the passageway that connects Lake Michigan to the carp-infested Mississippi River. But lawmakers who support a separation of the Mississippi and Great Lakes watersheds are right to keep pushing for that outcome.
Carp DNA can be transported into Lake Erie in the bilge water of freighters or other boats, via storm sewers or by fish-eating birds. But the latest discovery suggests that previous identification of bighead carp DNA in Sandusky Bay was not a fluke.
State and federal agencies, with help from conservation groups and universities, have canvassed the five Great Lakes since 2010. A study for the Great Lakes Commission says the two watersheds could be separated hydrologically for $9.5 billion -- less than the cost of some federal highway projects.
How much more carp DNA must be found throughout the Great Lakes before the corps becomes more diligent about finally giving Congress its plan to repel the carp invasion?
Read more: [URL]http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/editorials/carp-evidence-dna-samples-in-lake-erie-call-for-a-solution-652371/#ixzz25yalHCaX[/URL][/quote]
Fuck.
Carps killed half of my brethren and sent the rest into melancholy or berserk.
They are horrible creatures.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Bf0WhvsNk[/media]
These things are insane.
fuck (most) invasive species
I can't be the only one who read carp as crap.
I live pretty close to the Illinois River. It's completely brimming with Asian carp. They're a pretty big nuisance, really.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;37601516]Carps killed half of my brethren and sent the rest into melancholy or berserk.
They are horrible creatures.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://dwarffortresswiki.org/images/1/1a/Carp_escape.jpg[/img]
God damn carps man, eating my dorfs.
[QUOTE=Awesomecaek;37601516]Carps killed half of my brethren and sent the rest into melancholy or berserk.
They are horrible creatures.[/QUOTE]
The Carp burned my holds and slaughtered my people...
Does carp taste like shit or something? Why don't they just catch these and sell them?
what a bunch of carp
Oh no.
[QUOTE=TrippyJuicyj;37602405]Does carp taste like shit or something? Why don't they just catch these and sell them?[/QUOTE]
They taste [I]alright[/I], but the problem is the amount of bones these bastards have.
Not to mention the industries in Lake Erie/Lake Ontario are mainly geared towards Steelhead, Walleye, Smallmouth, Pike, and Perch fishing.
[QUOTE=OvB;37602557]Oh no.[/QUOTE]
I somehow was expecting a longer reply from you on this matter.
[QUOTE=An Armed Bear;37601519][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Bf0WhvsNk[/media]
These things are insane.[/QUOTE]
That's my kind of fishing.
They're incubating. we're fucked
I got bitch-slapped by a carp once when I was fishing.
The jerks.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37602702]I somehow was expecting a longer reply from you on this matter.[/QUOTE]
Asian carp are the scourge of the rivers and lakes. Kill them all. Unfortunately, our attempts at killing them all have been mostly ineffective.
[editline]9th September 2012[/editline]
GO BACK TO WHENCE YOU CAME, BEASTS.
Pretty sure these are the only solid proof that somewhere like hell exists.
[QUOTE=An Armed Bear;37601519][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Bf0WhvsNk[/media]
These things are insane.[/QUOTE]
We should make a device that agitates the water in a way that makes then jump. There will be multiple collection troughs that they will jump into like that boat where they will fall onto a conveyor belt leading into a factory where they will be turned into cat food.
Rev up the patent office!
[QUOTE=An Armed Bear;37601519][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3Bf0WhvsNk[/media]
These things are insane.[/QUOTE]
Indiana in a nutshell
Oh god i have to do this sometime.
Or make some type of evil sonar device that tunes into a certain frequency making the carp explode.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37602702]I somehow was expecting a longer reply from you on this matter.[/QUOTE]
you know things are bad when OvB simply goes "Oh no."
[QUOTE=OvB;37602786]Asian carp are the scourge of the rivers and lakes. Kill them all. Unfortunately, our attempts at killing them all have been mostly ineffective.
[editline]9th September 2012[/editline]
GO BACK TO ONCE YOU CAME, BEASTS.[/QUOTE]
Whence, but I know what you mean.
Why are they bleeding, when they enter the boat?
[QUOTE=erie1555;37603272]Why are they bleeding, when they enter the boat?[/QUOTE]
You try flying several times your height into the air, then landing on solid metal.
[QUOTE=erie1555;37603272]Why are they bleeding, when they enter the boat?[/QUOTE]
They impacted something other than water and then proceeded to flail madly against a hard surface.
[QUOTE=OvB;37602873]We should make a device that agitates the water in a way that makes then jump. There will be multiple collection troughs that they will jump into like that boat where they will fall onto a conveyor belt leading into a factory where they will be turned into cat food.
Rev up the patent office![/QUOTE]
Isn't it the frequency that the propeller and motor emits into the water that makes them jump?
Besides I know that there's a gizmo that electrocutes the water and paralyzes pretty much every fish nearby so they're practically floating right under the surface, ready to be picked up.
Combine that and you could easily "harvest all the fishes, sort them and put the native one's back in the water, and put the invasive species in a water filled storage tank.
And sell them to any put&take farms nearby.
oh no
that's near my area!
OH NO
If they get into Lake Michigan (or any of the other Great Lakes) it could kill a Billion dollar industry.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.