Quote Originally Posted by Moveon View Post

It's a crying shame that some IDIOT brought those Asian Carps to the USA and let them escape into the Mississippi River System. That person should have been shot by a firing squad IMHO.
It's not one person to blame. It's multiple people and multiple agencies but mother nature gave us the ultimate final dagar....Asian carp have been around for SEVERAL years but its only been the last 10 or so years when you really hear people start talking about them. People in the Illinois government along with the fish and wildlife decided to allow private asian carp farming. They knew the species could overtake a water system so the farmers had to raise them in private farm ponds. All went well for several years until one year mother nature decides to have epic flooding along the Illinois River. Water gets high enough it floods the private carp farm ponds and the rest is history.

It took them a few years to go down the Illinois river, into the Mississippi, over to the Ohio and the into Ky and Barkley and establish a population. All the while Ky Dept of Fish and wildlife knew they were coming but they decided to drop $ in establishing an elk program into eastern Ky instead of combating asian carp. If my memory is correct Illinois and possibly some other northern state has placed an electric fence under the water where barge traffic passes from the great lakes in route to the Mississippi River. The electric fence prevents any fish from swimming through the area. KY knew over a period of time they would migrate down to us. If they had installed a electric fence we might not be having this conversation.

Ultimately it was not one person responsible for the introduction of Asian carp. It was multiple people an multiple agencies that decided it would be okay to farm raise them. Then mother nature thew us the final blow with an epic flood that flooded the Illinois river into the private carp farm ponds.