Asian Carp Fish Apparently Need To Be Killed

From the Twin Cities Pioneer

A 27-pound bighead carp, caught Monday in the St. Croix River near Prescott, Wis., was on display at the Department of Natural Resources headquarters in St. Paul on Wednesday April 20, 2011. The 34-inch carp is among several invasive Asian carp species that could cause serious damage to the state's aquatic ecosystems. (Pioneer Press: Richard Marshall) (Richard Marshall)

A rogue bighead carp was pulled from the Lower St. Croix River this week, adding to fears the invasive creatures are slowly working their way into Minnesota border waters.

A commercial fisherman netting for buffalo and common carp caught the 27-pound fish Monday just north of the St. Croix's confluence with the Mississippi River and contacted the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, agency officials said.

It was the seventh bighead carp found in eastern border waters since 1996 but the sixth since 2003. DNR officials stressed the fish appears to be a loner that swam north and there's no indication yet of a reproducing population in Minnesota portions of the Mississippi or St. Croix rivers.

"Large migratory river fish — that's what they do ... they migrate," said Brad Parsons, DNR central region fisheries manager.

"It's alarming, but it's one fish," added DNR communications director Chris Niskanen.

Bighead and silver carp, another type of Asian carp noted for its leaping abilities, have been on the agency's radar for years because of the threat they pose to the state's $2.7 billion fishing industry.

Imported from Asia four decades ago to control algae and other problems in Southern fish farms, they eventually escaped or were released into the wild and have been slowly making their way up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers to southeastern Minnesota and South Dakota. They consume huge amounts of tiny plankton, upsetting the food chain and

pushing out native fish, eventually making up 90 percent of some area's fish biomass.
With their acrobatic leaps from the water when bothered by motor sounds, the silver carp have become especially well-known.

The state is scrambling to put some sort of barrier in place.

Years ago, it explored an underwater acoustic barrier in the Mississippi to discourage a northward migration, but that experimental and admittedly temporary effort has stalled.




I'm not going to lie, I had no idea that the Asian Carp fish needed to be killed, but after watching this video I sure as hell do. Fuck going water skiing and getting pelted by stupid Asian fish the whole time. I want to be trying to grind some heady H20, not getting fish blasted. Upon seeing this video, I immediately googled "Asian Carp Problem" and shit is no joke. Asian carp are fucking shit up.


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