Asian Carp Mess

[Cane Pole]

Out the back of the boat today. Pumphouse Restaurant and Marina in background.

Be careful, these fish can kill you. I don't know the answer.

[Shad]

It really sucks that the ones that could have done something about it where in denial for so long. Now it seems to be too late. They are here to stay. Too many of them to eradicate. I see them a lot now on Kentucky Lake.

[ET Fish]

That's just wild! I'm sure they're headed this way....or already here!

[wicklundrh]

I'm waiting for someone to start shooting them with a shotgun like skeet

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[M R Dux]

I'm waiting for someone to start shooting them with a shotgun like skeet

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More like snow geese with no limit and extended choke tubes. There are lots of folks who ask me about that. From 30 years of experience guiding waterfowl hunters, I don't want to be in the same zip-code with folks with shotguns shooting carp.

[FurFlyin]

Surely, somebody will come up with a solution. Are they ruining the fishery? I've heard that they will, but that may be an urban legend.

[wannabe fisherman]

Surely, somebody will come up with a solution. Are they ruining the fishery? I've heard that they will, but that may be an urban legend.

definitely ruining the fishery and getting worse. On Ky lake they're trying to encouraging commercial fishermen to catch them to send to a local cannery to be sent overseas.
I've had a few pieces of them cooked up at the Crappie camp on the lake and they're not bad fried up, not as good as Crappie though.

[Boa3]

They are filter feeders and eat the same thing that minnows and invertebrates eat. They now make up at least 80% of the bio-mass of the Illinois river. The head of the Commercial fishers said that they could reduce the % to 5 if there was money to make fishing for them profitable but at .12 per pound it isn't feasible to run the boats, trucks, and nets and still make a profit.

[wicklundrh]

It will take some big chain like McDonald's to switch their fish sandwich from haddock or pollock to these. The one that does will capitalize. Only issue is that if it isn't quick, the problem could and will ruin things.

The issue right now is that it costs more to get and process than to export. If however the gov decided to supplement the industry similar to the milk industry, it could take care of the issue. If not, no one will harvest at .18 and sell for .12 and it seems there just isn't enough hillbillies like me to solve the problem alone

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[skiptomylu]

That's what happens when the foreign animals get let loose in our waters! Shame they can't tag them back to who started this crap and let them fix it!

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