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So in 1993 a massive flood of the Mississippi allowed Asian Carp to escape the fish farm ponds where they were kept to keep the water clean. And up the Miss, to the Ohio, and even the Great Lakes they are moving.
Obviously, a comercial used product got loose and look at the mess theyare making.
Bp has the oil rig, and they are getting nailed to the cross to pay for it.
So who is making the Asian Carp farmers pay for all the costs associated with those puppies getting loose? -
The same people making the people who unleashed kudzoo pay, and alewives pay, and snakeheads pay, and zebra mussels pay...
[QUOTE=HURRICANEBOB;420091]So in 1993 a massive flood of the Mississippi allowed Asian Carp to escape the fish farm ponds where they were kept to keep the water clean. And up the Miss, to the Ohio, and even the Great Lakes they are moving.
Obviously, a comercial used product got loose and look at the mess theyare making.
Bp has the oil rig, and they are getting nailed to the cross to pay for it.
So who is making the Asian Carp farmers pay for all the costs associated with those puppies getting loose? -[/QUOTE]
I've been to the MS delta fish farms and to Amish prawn and catfish farms and they don't use Asian carp to keep the ponds clean. They use grass carp. I know there are reports that Asian carp escaped from fish farms but I don't understand why the farmers would use them because they eat everything that swims and are destructive to the fishing business.
The farms they escaped from were in Arkansas. They're filter feeders, just like other carp, so they only eat phytoplankton, but they eat one heluva lot of it, which I guess is why they chose them. I don't know if they didn't have the technology at the time to make triploids, or what. Sure seems stupid in hindsight.
HEY......I GOT IT!
Do Asian Carp eat oil? Cut em' loose in the Gulf.
The term Asian carp is misleading. ALL carp are Asian carp. Common carp, grass carp, Silver Carp, big head carp, koi and goldfish are all from Asia.
Roadtoad is right.
It is true that the Silver and Bighead carp were first introduced into our water ways by the flooding of the Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers. Big heads and silvers are filter feeders that feed on the explosive algae blooms in aquaculture ponds caused by the large amounts of nutrients due to the over population of fish obviously found in these ponds. Believe it or not, snake heads, specifically Channa argus or northern snake heads were heavily farmed in many states up until the 2004 federal ban (this ban is ridiculous but that is a whole other thread).
As far as fining the people, its probably because the .gov also most likely stocked ponds with these carp as well. There is a small and isolated population of snakeheads (Channa argus) in the Potomac but its hard to pin point who was at fault for their release. Both populations of Channa in the lower 48 (C. argus as previously mentioned in the Potomac and C. marulia in Miami) were very import food fish in the live food fish industry. C. argus was very cold tolerant hence the reason they were sold in markets up north and C. marulia is a tropical heat tolerant species hence why it was sold in Miami. Neither fish were popular outside of the food fish industry.