Linking out to this article and then to some on youtube really got my attention. I saw some videos on youtube talking about the Illinois river and trying to keep them out of the great lakes and they said these thing have absolutely taken over the Illinois river. 95% of the fish bio-mass in that river is now asian carp representing 8 out of 10 fish. They showed one video piece where one of the DFW boats was shocking them and literally hundreds of them were jumping at once around the boat! It looked like it was raining carp. Stretching that to our beloved big lakes they say what the threat is that these things can take out the bottom of the food chain. They are plankton eaters and can eat more than half their weight a day which takes that resource from other fish in the food chain. Shad and fish fry come to mind which also feed on plankton. If these things go crazy in numbers they could really crowd out other fish not to mention making boating a real adventure as I learned first hand over the weekend. Scary stuff! I say put a bounty on their heads and kill all we can!! Shame that shotgun idea wouldn't work!

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