Public vs Private--Asian carp
02-08-2010, 07:10 AM
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Public vs Private--Asian carp
The asian carp is an invasive species introduced to the US years ago. It has made its way up the Mississippi and through the Illinois river and it is at the gates of the Great Lakes. This is the huge, crazy fish that is attracted to motor noise and will leap out of the water at boats.
I was reading Reason magazine and the had a blurb about this--the government had spent some millions of dollars to: trap other fish and move them, then poison the Illinois river to kill the carp, then recover the bodies. the article said that one carp carcass was recovered.
At the same time, enterprising guides are charging sportsmen $1,000 for crossbow hunting the carp on the Illinois--removing more fish from the river in one launch than the fed's entire program.
I'll see if I can find the link.
WW
I was reading Reason magazine and the had a blurb about this--the government had spent some millions of dollars to: trap other fish and move them, then poison the Illinois river to kill the carp, then recover the bodies. the article said that one carp carcass was recovered.
At the same time, enterprising guides are charging sportsmen $1,000 for crossbow hunting the carp on the Illinois--removing more fish from the river in one launch than the fed's entire program.
I'll see if I can find the link.
WW
02-11-2010, 01:36 PM
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Considering that it was the Dept. of Agriculture who introduced them to the States back in the '70s, would you really trust the government to properly stop the advance of the carp? Tax dollars hard at work...
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