Feds Pass on Surest Solution to Asian Carp Advance

[CID1990]

This is just stupid as hell.

Everybody knows that if we didn't have those dumb laws against dynamite fishin' these fish wouldn't be a problem.

[travelinman67]

Fuck y'all. When the Lord gives you lemons...

Just got my trademark on "Carp Diem". Franchising sit-down restaurants located throughout the midwest with a specialty menu of healthy Carp dishes like:

Carp Poppers (baked Carp fingers filled with low-fat jalapeno jack)
Asian Carp wraps (like egg rolls, but baked)
Steamed Carp
California Roll (selection of chilled, pickled Carp sushi)
Blackened Carp
Pan-seared Carp
BBQ Carp with Greens
Carp tacos
Curried Carp
Carpiopino (fish stew)

...and waiting on final paperwork for my fast-food chain, "Carp's Jr."

[kalm]

the Northern Pike Minnow (aka Squaw Fish) was causing similar problems in the Columbia River system. The Bonnevile Power Administration created a bounty program on the fish where some fisherman were making $30K/year to catch and remove the fish.

So take the $ that would have been wasted and pay bounties on the carp. Unemployed people who know how to fish earn income and ag companies have a cheap source of fertilizer to sell to organic hippie farmers.

Economic stimulus and everyone is happy.

[grizzaholic]

Well they started looking for them carp.

http://missoulian.com/news/national/art ... 3e976.html

Wildlife officials have begun their hunt for the destructive Asian carp in Chicago-area waterways.

Officials already have DNA evidence that suggests the fish has made it past the area's electric fish barriers. Now, they're looking for actual fish.

Crews are focusing on areas where warm water from industrial operations enters the waterways. That's because fish tend to congregate near the warmer water in the winter.

Crews will use commercial fishing nets and electrofishing to search over the next two to three weeks. They put up the nets Wednesday.

In December, officials discovered a single carp in a canal leading to Lake Michigan, the closest the species has been found to the Great Lakes.

Environmentalists fear invasive carp could endanger the lakes' $7 billion-a-year fishing industry.

[BlueHen86]

I'm guessing that scientists somewhere could gin up some giant parasitic wasps that would take care of this carp problem once they're released into the wild...

I was thinking more alomng the line of some sort of aquatic wolf species.

[dbackjon]

I'm guessing that scientists somewhere could gin up some giant parasitic wasps that would take care of this carp problem once they're released into the wild...

I was thinking more alomng the line of some sort of aquatic wolf species.

[dbackjon]

I'm guessing that scientists somewhere could gin up some giant parasitic wasps that would take care of this carp problem once they're released into the wild...

I was thinking more alomng the line of some sort of aquatic wolf species.

The Wolf Fish?

[Ivytalk]

All those Koreans at the Olympics who are bitching about Anton Ohno qualify as carping Asians!

Ba-dum-bump!

[blueballs]

Kinda looks like Armanti w/o the dreads...

[andy7171]

I'm guessing that scientists somewhere could gin up some giant parasitic wasps that would take care of this carp problem once they're released into the wild...

[Pwns]

There's no problem a UN resolution won't fix.

[JohnStOnge]

Just go with it. Bighead and silver carp are prized as food fish by much of the world. Here's a story about somebody who's doing well fishing for Asian carp:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5542199

"Briney used to think carp were ugly. 'But now, I think they look pretty good,' he says, laughing, noting that they bring 'about $4 a fish.'"

Don't think of ecosystems as being destroyed. Think of them as changing. They always do that. Sometimes they do it because a new species is introduced. Sometimes they do it for other reasons. But they always change over time. Just deal with what is.

[JayJ79]

Gefilte fish for everyone!

[grizzaholic]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100221/ap_ ... reat_lakes

The plan envisions spending more than $2.2 billion for long-awaited repairs after a century of damage to the lakes, which hold 20 percent of the world's fresh water. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the document, which Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, was releasing at a news conference Sunday in Washington.

"We're committed to creating a new standard of care that will leave the Great Lakes better for the next generation," Jackson said in a statement.

Among the goals is a "zero tolerance policy" toward future invasions by foreign species, including the Asian carp, a huge, ravenous fish that has overrun portions of the Mississippi River system and is threatening to enter Lake Michigan.

[houndawg]

Just another "illegal Immigrant" that needs some amnesty on Hussein Obamas watch...

This guy is a fu*king joke on a such a scale that Africa is laughing at us. He is by FAR the most embarrassing president in the last 100 years. The entire world is laughing at us because this undocumented worker took over and is trying to ram socialism down our throats.

Too late Alvin, they're already in the Great Lakes and passing out copies of Maos Red Book quotations to the other fish.

[Rob Iola]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100221/ap_ ... reat_lakes

The plan envisions spending more than $2.2 billion for long-awaited repairs after a century of damage to the lakes, which hold 20 percent of the world's fresh water. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the document, which Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, was releasing at a news conference Sunday in Washington.

"We're committed to creating a new standard of care that will leave the Great Lakes better for the next generation," Jackson said in a statement.

Among the goals is a "zero tolerance policy" toward future invasions by foreign species, including the Asian carp, a huge, ravenous fish that has overrun portions of the Mississippi River system and is threatening to enter Lake Michigan.

Oh good Lord - why don't we just have a zero tolerance policy for $2.2 billion government boondoggles instead?

[grizzaholic]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100221/ap_ ... reat_lakes

The plan envisions spending more than $2.2 billion for long-awaited repairs after a century of damage to the lakes, which hold 20 percent of the world's fresh water. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the document, which Lisa Jackson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, was releasing at a news conference Sunday in Washington.

"We're committed to creating a new standard of care that will leave the Great Lakes better for the next generation," Jackson said in a statement.

Among the goals is a "zero tolerance policy" toward future invasions by foreign species, including the Asian carp, a huge, ravenous fish that has overrun portions of the Mississippi River system and is threatening to enter Lake Michigan.

Oh good Lord - why don't we just have a zero tolerance policy for $2.2 billion government boondoggles instead?

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[Rob Iola]

Oh good Lord - why don't we just have a zero tolerance policy for $2.2 billion government boondoggles instead?

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What exactly do we get for $2.2 billion, other than a whole raft of studies and new restrictive policies that have virtually no impact on Great Lake water quality?

[grizzaholic]

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What exactly do we get for $2.2 billion, other than a whole raft of studies and new restrictive policies that have virtually no impact on Great Lake water quality?

I am agreeing with you. I just saw the article while bumming around the internet and thought I would post it here.

[travelinman67]

...Among the goals is a "zero tolerance policy" toward future invasions by foreign species, including the Asian carp, a huge, ravenous fish that has overrun portions of the Mississippi River system and is threatening to enter Lake Michigan.

If the Carp's presence in the Great Lakes provided financial benefit to an industry, you can bet your life the EPA would step in and use all measures necessary, no expenses spared, to prevent their introduction into the Lakes.