Flying Carp Invasion in US

[chris73]

Check this out - easpecially the video. It would be too funny if it was not so sad for the ecosystems. Couldn't fish farmers use them to make food pellets?

http://www.canada.com/technology/Giant+leaping+Asian+carp+threaten+Great+Lakes/2463897/story.html

 

[Barbender]

What is a real shame is that they do not take hooks or bait so can't fish for them. I have seen video of people hunting them with bows and arrows.

 

[Gunsmith]

But another problem caused by fish farming. Very sad indeed.[V]

 

[cuttlefish]

True Lake Michigan is a US Great Lake, but what about the rest. How telling that this report came from canaduh.com but didn't consider the ramifications to Canada. When, not if this comes to pass it will be the worst ecological disaster to hit North America since the introduction of the internal combustion engine.

 

[chris73]

Actually you can catch them with hooks. In Europe they use chunks of bread right at the surface. And apparently during spawning time they can get very aggressive and some take a spinner etc.

 

[agentaqua]

quote:Originally posted by chris73

Check this out - easpecially the video. It would be too funny if it was not so sad for the ecosystems. Couldn't fish farmers use them to make food pellets?

http://www.canada.com/technology/Giant+leaping+Asian+carp+threaten+Great+Lakes/2463897/story.html

Only for growing flying fish...

 

[cuttlefish]

PBS NewsHours weighs in with a story about the US Supreme Court decision and ramifications of stopping or not stopping the invasion. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/environment/jan-june10/carp_01-25.html
They even interviewed a fisherman.

 

[agentaqua]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/winds...-ministry-of-natural-resources-says-1.3234287
Asian carp caught near Point Pelee, Ministry of Natural Resources says

 

[agentaqua]

Grass carp have arrived in Great Lakes, study concludes
Fish have been found in Lake Michigan, Erie and Ontario
CBC News Posted: Jan 27, 2017 3:52 PM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/grass-carp-great-lakes-1.3954946
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/SAR-AS/2016/2016_057-eng.pdf
http://glc.org/files/projects/ais/GLPMeeting-April2015-Conover-DFO.pdf

 

[agentaqua]

Resource References
http://asiancarp.ca/RESOURCES/References
Update to the Ecological Risk Assessment of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) for the Great Lakes Basin: Lake Ontario
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/ScR-RS/2016/2016_049-eng.html
Ecological Risk Proceedings of the Regional Peer Review of the Binational Ecological Risk Assessment for Grass Carp in the Great Lakes Basin; June 1-3, 2015
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/Pro-Cr/2016/2016_052-eng.html
Assessment of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) for the Great Lakes Basin
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/SAR-AS/2016/2016_057-eng.html
Modelling Survival and Establishment of Grass Carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella, in the Great Lakes Basin
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/ResDocs-DocRech/2016/2016_101-eng.html
Updated (2003–2015) Biological Synopsis of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella)
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/ResDocs-DocRech/2016/2016_102-eng.html
Modelling spread and assessing movement of Grass Carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella, in the Great Lakes basin
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/ResDocs-DocRech/2016/2016_114-eng.html
Ecological Consequences of Grass Carp, Ctenopharyngodon idella, in the Great Lakes Basin: vegetation, fishes and birds
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/ResDocs-DocRech/2016/2016_117-eng.html
Ecological Risk Assessment of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) for the Great Lakes Basin
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas-sccs/Publications/ResDocs-DocRech/2016/2016_118-eng.html