Bigheads Have Agencies Carping About High Costs

[DrownedDesertRat]

Just curious what your thoughts are on this. Maybe we can help influence the decision that's made.

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ST. PAUL, MN—According to preliminary estimates by a fisheries technology company, the fight to keep Asian carp out of the Upper Mississippi River might cost $15 to $25 million.

The expensive proposal recently pitched to natural resource officials from Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin involves creating an underwater electric barrier across the Mississippi River, similar to the ones recently built in a Chicago-area canal to prevent the harmful exotics from entering Lake Michigan. The barrier would feature underwater electric cables that shock fish.

Some opposed to the plan say the barrier is impractical and might interfere with recreation and prevent natural spawning migrations of native fish.

No decision has been made on whether to build the barrier.
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[Flagmanonice]

[cool][cool] I have a solution !!!! Plant bigger predator fish that will eat those things !!!! LOL

Flagmanonice.......[]
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[DrownedDesertRat]

Great solution! Except for one problem. The bigger predator fish will eat the other fish that are traveling through the area also.

What they need to do is find a bacterium that affects only the carp just like they do with the unwanted insects.
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[davetclown]

here is the problem, thost things get to 70 pounds and eat entires beds of predetor eggs long before the preditors get a chance to take hold.

what they need to do is run carp lines simmilar to trout lines with good dough balls on them, a man could go in to the catfish food business real easy.

an even beter way if you could trust a comercial fish co is to have them net the carp for the catfish food industry and release every thing else. but you and both know that wont happen. as soon as they start catching something else they wont throw it back they will find a way to get around the license and sell their ill gotten booty on a black market.

how about this one, every two weeks run a kids carp fishing derby on the river... the kid who catches the most carp each event wins. all the carp will have to be catch and kill....

when they planted the carp here in michigan they destroyed our natural trout populatons and habitats.
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[tubeN2]

Hey minneman, there is only one catch to that as far as males and females go. All fish are born males. They only change their sex once it is time to spawn. Then only a select few will change their sex to females.[shocked] Just a little food for thought.
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