Silver carp vs bp

[HURRICANEBOB]

HEY......I GOT IT!

Do Asian Carp eat oil? Cut em' loose in the Gulf.

[JD7.62]

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.