Ontario takes Asian carp fight to U.S. Supreme Court

Kakato

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I guess we'd better come up with several good recipes for muddy tasting
Asian Carp then. I vote for Battered, Deep-Fried, & swimming in Tartar
Sauce. That should hide the taste of almost anything.

Imagine if they get into the hudsons bay and the Thelon up north and then great slave lake if they like cold fresh water.
Hopefully the whales,bears,walrus and seals take a liking to them.
The farther north you go the more delicate the balance is with the environment.
Change is supposed to be slow when it comes to a new species moving in though,this is really going to throw a fu** into the balance.
 

ironsides

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Asian Carp


They're heeeeerree. Well, maybe. Asian carp DNA — but thankfully, no actual fish — has been found in water samples taken from the Chicago river near a pumping station in the Chicago suburb of Wilmette, Ill. In the 1970s, catfish farmers used these hardy foreign carp to remove algae from their ponds. But over the decades, floods that caused catfish ponds to overflow have released the species into the Mississippi river basin. Asian carp can grow to 4 ft. (1.2 m) in length and weigh over 100 lb. (45 kg), and have a tendency to leap out of the water, injuring fishermen and the occasional newscaster. With no natural predators and a predilection for killing off other marine life by eating all the plankton, the carp have overrun the Mississippi and are swimming towards the Great Lakes, the world's largest freshwater ecosystem. An elaborate system of barriers was constructed in 2002 to keep them contained, but the Wilmette DNA sample indicates that the fish have most likely found away around it. In December 2009 the state of Michigan filed a lawsuit against Illinois, which refuses to close the locks along Chicago's waterways. Despite the threat to the multibillion dollar fishing industry, the Supreme Court ruled against Michigan on Jan. 19. Chicago's waterways will remain open for now.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1958657_1958656,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly#ixzz0f2UqKijx
 

#juan

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The carp are better stronger fish, it's the law of nature, a tackle change is what you need. Don't expect our taxes to subsidize your torturing worms by protecting obsolete fish that can't make the cut.

There is nothing natural about the Asian Carp invasion. Asian Carp were brought to America as tank cleaners. They escaped from the tanks during a flood and have invaded the rivers and lakes of America. In some areas of water they are 90% of the fish by weight. They are also voracious eaters and will attack boats going down the river. They can jump 8 feet high and break bones. They have no natural predators here and taste bad. Asians eat them because they have no choice
 

petros

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Why not just send a couple Jap trollers up the St Larry & Mississippi? They cleaned out 90% of the oceans in just a few years. The great lakes would be a weekend operation at half crew.
 

ironsides

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Little tarter sauce, lemon, cocktail sauce and maybe a little hot sauce will make them palatable. Wish there was a simple solution to stop their spread, but short of sealing one lake from another I cannot think of any.
 

Johnnny

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You let us down ironsides, the US Army engineers should be able to build these barriers flawlessly. Tell those boys at the engineering corps to hit the books again and crunch some equations because someone forgot to carry the Y somewhere :p
 

ironsides

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Same guys who built the dikes around N. Orleans, same guys who built jetties to stop beach erosion and instead accelerated it, same people who built flood control canals and dikes in Florida and caused the everglades to start drying up. Oh sure, lets put them in charge of intrusive animal control. :) Leave it up to them and you will soon have pythons running around up there.