04-11-2022, 05:45 PM
(04-11-2022, 04:32 PM)gaardvark Wrote: If the program has expired, does that mean that the seining operations have been suspended, or simply that it is no longer being publicly funded? I had understood this was a business that had been operating on the lake for many years before the state funded removal efforts began in earnest. Has the removal program been so successful that continuing to net the carp is no longer commercially viable?The Loy family has had a commercial carp seining business for several generations. In the past they sold fresh carp to retail outlets in several big cities throughout the country...largely for cultural groups from other countries that were used to eating and enjoying carp. They also sold to mink farmers in Utah until that business went south. Then, not long before they got the contract for the June Sucker Program carp eradication nettings, it was discovered that the carp from Utah Lake had unsafe levels of PCBs. That killed their ability to sell carp for human consumption. I doubt there is any other place to sell their carp...and the ones they harvested under contract were usually just dumped in the landfill.