Boat registration may go up due to Asian Carp Invasion

[SLP]

As long as that's what it's used for, bring it. Charge me more for my license, KDFWR. Don't care. We have to do something big, and do it before it's too late.

Yeah, I bet if they offered an optional donation when buying licenses for donating money that went exclusively towards fighting the Asian Carp problem they would get a lot of people donating. People understand this has to be attacked sooner than later before it's to late.

[waterdog101]

I haven't seen a single one, snagged one or had one of those carp to jump in my boat yet, and I've fished the ky river, Ohio river, Ky lake, Barkley lake, Dale hollow, Cherokee, Norris lakes in tn, Weiss lake, Guntersville lakes in Alabama, Sardis lake in Mississippi, and santee cooper in SC. makes me wonder if the carp problem is as bad as the tax collectors are saying it is..

[jcb]

I haven't seen a single one, snagged one or had one of those carp to jump in my boat yet, and I've fished the ky river, Ohio river, Ky lake, Barkley lake, Dale hollow, Cherokee, Norris lakes in tn, Weiss lake, Guntersville lakes in Alabama, Sardis lake in Mississippi, and santee cooper in SC. makes me wonder if the carp problem is as bad as the tax collectors are saying it is..

Seriously? I don't know or see a lot of heroin addicts, but I know what a huge problem it is.

I don't need to catch one to believe the folks who are saying it could end fishing as we know it. Dave Stewart and others. For a guy who makes his living fishing, I tend to believe him when he says "Unless mother nature steps in and evens things out like she does in many cases where a species is getting over populated....your kids and grandkids will be fishing for Asians in order to catch any numbers of fish."

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[kentuckykingfisher]

I haven't seen a single one, snagged one or had one of those carp to jump in my boat yet, and I've fished the ky river, Ohio river, Ky lake, Barkley lake, Dale hollow, Cherokee, Norris lakes in tn, Weiss lake, Guntersville lakes in Alabama, Sardis lake in Mississippi, and santee cooper in SC. makes me wonder if the carp problem is as bad as the tax collectors are saying it is..

Shoot, go fish below ky or barkley dam. Its a graveyard most the time down there on the banks where people catch them carp and toss em on the banks. People snag down there and hit a carp on every retrieve. Here before to long these carp will be below every dam and sooner rather than later be in every lake. They already seem to believe the asian carp are in taylorsville

[crappiepappy]

They already seem to believe the asian carp are in taylorsville

IF they are, then someone PUT THEM THERE !! They are in the Salt River, BELOW the Taylorsville Dam ... I can verify that. But, there's no way for them to be IN Taylorsville Lake, other than being manually placed there.

[kentuckykingfisher]

IF they are, then someone PUT THEM THERE !! They are in the Salt River, BELOW the Taylorsville Dam ... I can verify that. But, there's no way for them to be IN Taylorsville Lake, other than being manually placed there.

lots of guys go down there and throw cast nets for shad and take them up in the lake for catfish bait. Im willing to bet that thats how they have gotten in there. If they even are. I was watching ky afield when a biologist had reported seeing a small school of asian carp on the lake. With that being the only report ive heard of, who knows still dont understand why anyone would throw a net fown there when the lakes overflowing with shad

[peter]

lots of guys go down there and throw cast nets for shad and take them up in the lake for catfish bait. Im willing to bet that thats how they have gotten in there. If they even are. I was watching ky afield when a biologist had reported seeing a small school of asian carp on the lake. With that being the only report ive heard of, who knows still dont understand why anyone would throw a net fown there when the lakes overflowing with shad

Transferring bait like that is highly illegal now. Down at KY and Barkley they can also lock through.

The lakes without locks are protected from the locking through problem but transferring bait from below a dam to above the dam on a lake without locks (or one lake to another) can get it started in the lake real fast. A Juvenile asian carp looks just like a gizzard shad. Google it. It will blow your mind. That is why they passed the regulation-no transferring shad from one body of water to another. If you see somebody doing it please remind them that it could start a real problem.

[GeoFisher]

IF they are, then someone PUT THEM THERE !! They are in the Salt River, BELOW the Taylorsville Dam ... I can verify that. But, there's no way for them to be IN Taylorsville Lake, other than being manually placed there.

They look EXACTLY like a Threadfin Shad, so they WILL end up in Taylorsville. By accident, but someone will dump bait and undoubtedly there will be an influx of Asian Carp.

[pintail311]

I'm always blown away by the amount of people (including scientists) who genuinely believe this can be stopped. It's a losing battle. Nature is the only mechanism which will "figure it out." I personally think that over time they will evolve down in size.

[jcb]

I'm always blown away by the amount of people (including scientists) who genuinely believe this can be stopped. It's a losing battle. Nature is the only mechanism which will "figure it out." I personally think that over time they will evolve down in size.

Most of the scientists, and other experts I've heard/read don't claim it can be stopped, only lessened. And because WHAT they eat--plankton--is the life blood of the aquatic food chain, unless their numbers are brought down the only thing that may stop them is when their food source is gone.

[waterdog101]

I've read where these fish are good to eat, and with so many people in the world needing food each day, why don't some people start a market for them and ship them world wide, the commercial fishing nets should be easy filled with the fish, seams like the carp are running near the surface of the lakes, they could market the fish world wide at a very cheap price, to help keep the supply in high demand, and the states that are so infested with the carp like KY, could stop wasting money on what ever method, they have been using to control the carp and failing so bad at. and use the money to subsidized the price the commercial fishermen are getting, for keeping the fish eaters around the world well feed, and by doing so free our lakes of carp, and remove the worry from our tax collectors... it could be like killing two birds with one stone..

[crappiepappy]

I've read where these fish are good to eat, and with so many people in the world needing food each day, why don't some people start a market for them and ship them world wide, the commercial fishing nets should be easy filled with the fish, seams like the carp are running near the surface of the lakes, they could market the fish world wide at a very cheap price, to help keep the supply in high demand, and the states that are so infested with the carp like KY, could stop wasting money on what ever method, they have been using to control the carp and failing so bad at. and use the money to subsidized the price the commercial fishermen are getting, for keeping the fish eaters around the world well feed, and by doing so free our lakes of carp, and remove the worry from our tax collectors... it could be like killing two birds with one stone..

There are some commercial canneries & commercial fisherman doing just that ... the problem being that it's not that simple or cost effective to make that big of a dent in the population.