Big Sandy Asian Carp Catch

[trypman1]

They do taste ok. I have tried 2. Fairly easy to clean. No, I am not going to fish for them.

[Ketchn]

12 tons of carp !
WOW ......

[Tradbow]

Just makes you wonder how many are in the waters of North America. Grind them up for hog feed maybe.

[Buzzsaw]

Just a drop in the bucket

[Cane Pole]

Just a drop in the bucket

Yep. I have seen the carp so thick that it looked like the water was only 3 foot deep in 20 FOW. I saw these thick layer of carp near Mansard Island which is near the location the Carp were hauled in.


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[happycaster58]

Time for some big underwater explosives to get a lot more out! KABOOM???

[bigdoug03]

This asian carp issue is going to be a real disaster in the next years / decades. They eat plankton, the same stuff that our native shad and fry would be eating. Every pound of biomass of these carp represents 1 pound of baitfish that the lake can no longer support. They've already ruined fishing in the Mississippi in my area. No only are they the dominant fish but you can't drive a boat without getting smacked by one of these things jumping into the boat!

My prediction is that they'll come to dominate any lakes / rivers that have a connection to the Mississippi river in the next 5/10 years. They'll become so overpopulated that they eventually outstrip the food supply. At that point, a disease or parasite of these fish will finally make it to the US and absolutely ravage the dense, weakened population, and we will see a nationwide fish kill like we've never seen before.

[MikeF]

This asian carp issue is going to be a real disaster in the next years / decades. They eat plankton, the same stuff that our native shad and fry would be eating. Every pound of biomass of these carp represents 1 pound of baitfish that the lake can no longer support. They've already ruined fishing in the Mississippi in my area. No only are they the dominant fish but you can't drive a boat without getting smacked by one of these things jumping into the boat!

My prediction is that they'll come to dominate any lakes / rivers that have a connection to the Mississippi river in the next 5/10 years. They'll become so overpopulated that they eventually outstrip the food supply. At that point, a disease or parasite of these fish will finally make it to the US and absolutely ravage the dense, weakened population, and we will see a nationwide fish kill like we've never seen before.

The annual walleye/sauger spring tourneys out of Spring Valley on the Illinois are almost dismal compared to years past.

From 2012

Extent of Illinois' Asian carp problem detailed -- ScienceDaily

[Schmoopie]

There is no way to eradicate them in the near term. If those electric "fences" work, they need to put them in at the top of the rivers and push the fish down, then add another section and push them further down, move the first one below the second and keep leapfrogging down until they die in the saltwater.

Otherwise, we are just patting ourselves on the back for removing a few tons, when the millions of tons are just replacing them as fast as they can be removed.

[S10CHEVY]

A few years ago, on Pymatuning in Pennsylvania, there was some king of virus, killing off regular carp in the lake. It was so bad, that you could smell them in the air. Wonder if anyone thought about trying to use what killed them here, in the rivers and lakes, for the asian ones. Maybe they can catch it too. It didn't affect all the other fish. So would be a good way to kill them.