What are they eating? Perhaps they like Zebra Mussels?
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Well, I think even a little Asian crap needs to be regulated. And … and TAXED, too! We have too much Asian crap as it is. Asian crap here, Asian crap there — why it’s a veritable Asian crap storm! Now we even have Asian crap in our water, for crying out loud! Enough of this cra… .
Oh … “carp,” you said? Never mind.
After reading more about the topic… this has all the look and feel of another government fear monger – the objective being for environmentals to shut down the Chicago sanitary canal and kill the remaining U.S. industry in the area.
There are two main types of Asian Carp in the rivers – they have been there for 30 years, having escaped from containment ponds used to raise catfish. Bighead carp live on plankton. They can grow to be very big.
Silver Carp are the ones in the video – they live on algae (and plankton). Fertilizer runoff throws nutrients in the rivers which creates massive amounts of algae bloom, which the silver carp devour. They also have the ability to multiply rapidly with a good food supply. However, when the population gets too big, they run out of food and there are massive die-offs. Silver carp live at the surface, not down deep – they spook easily which why they jump out of the water when a boat comes by.
So did something happen in the last few years that increased the pressure on farms to put more land into production and use more fertilizer? Oh…. how about the corn for ethanol program?
Silver Carp require warm temperatures and strong currents to breed successfully. They are unlikely to have much of an effect on the Great Lakes when they arrive there. The water in the Great Lakes is quite cold and are deep. Carp were introduced into lakes in Europe and have not killed off native species.
We have had carp out in the western rivers and the Delta reigon for many years, I believe it was the advent of ships comming from China and other ports with their balast tanks full of water and emptying them out as they loaded grain in our port. I don’t think I have seen it as bad as the video, but then again I dont fish in the delta anymore either.