Asian Carp in the Great lakes

[Ttown]

I've tried to scale down my efforts on these barbs lately, to let others have a ray of hope while they clown around, even if they are green in the gills. I could just whale out puns without any porpoise, telling one tail after another and baiting others to join, but that wouldn't make my rod bigger than theirs. Too many puns and folks will be like sharks in the water, looking to take me to school or put my head on a pike.

As much as I enjoy all these puns, especially the magnificent post for the grand master (before whom we all bow)I have to fish for one unused.
This causes me much whaling and grief. Salmon will always be out there just waiting to strike with yet another pun. And BB73, well eel always be ready to show his mettle.

 

[Ttown]

The lake states are still pushing for a remedy, Ohio needs to step up and be more than just a MIchoigan supporter.

Link

White House to host Asian carp talks
BLADE STAFF

The Obama Administration said it will host a White House summit on Feb. 8 to discuss the Asian carp crisis with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn.

The 2:30 p.m. meeting, which the administration has closed to the public, will include Nancy Sutley, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Coast Guard.

The participants are trying to settle on how to keep the voracious carp from destroying the Great Lakes fishery, valued at $7 billion.

 

[Ttown]

Last month the Supreme court rejected proposals to shut the canal by Chicago. Recently this plan was put forth to combat the invasion by removing oxygen from the water.
Sounds great if they can implement it efficiently.
Plan hatched to halt Asian carp migration

Plan to reduce oxygen content in stretch of water would eliminate fish

CHICAGO | A scientist and an environmental engineering professor unveiled a plan Wednesday using a control technology they said could prevent Asian carp from migrating to the Great Lakes via the Chicago area.
In a presentation to about 50 people at a Calumet Area Industrial Commission meeting, Donald Hey and Paul Anderson said reducing the level of dissolved oxygen in a portion of a waterway would make it impossible for Asian carp or any fish to pass through the area to the Great Lakes.
The effort would create a "hypoxic zone" in a stretch of water between a lock and dam in Lockport, Ill., and the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant, about five miles north of Midway Airport.
Both are used by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago. Anderson and Hey don't represent the district, and the district has said it has no position on methods used to prevent further Asian carp migration.
The plan was presented as an alternative to closing the locks completely, an idea assailed by many Chicago area business owners.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Phil Lloyd with Two Tone in 1992, the first time the mighty carp was caught. Photograph: BNPS.co.uk

Anglers mourn death of ?marriage wrecking? giant fish

Two Tone the elusive carp lived to about 45 years old and weighed nearly 70 pounds

Anglers are mourning the death of a carp believed to be Britain's largest freshwater fish, who tipped the scales at almost 70 pounds and was nicknamed "the marriage wrecker."
Two Tone, a mirror carp who weighed 67 pounds, 14 ounces, was found floating on the surface of Conningbrook Lake in Kent, England where it lived. It was believed to be about 45 years old and to have died from old age.
The fish, named for its skin color, was only caught once or twice a year and no more than 50 times in its lifetime, which made him a prize catch among anglers across the country.
"It's a unique creature. It's genetically unusual. There's no other fish ever grown to that size in this country," Coningbrook fisheries manager Chris Logsdon told Reuters Television.
"Obviously it was the pinnacle of carp angling. It was the fish that everybody wanted to catch."
It was the hours that some anglers spent trying to catch Two Tone that won the fish the nickname "the marriage wrecker."

Entire article: Anglers mourn death of ‘marriage wrecking’ fish - TODAY Pets & Animals - TODAYshow.com

 

[Jake]

The lake states are still pushing for a remedy, Ohio needs to step up and be more than just a MIchoigan supporter.



The Obama Administration said it will host a White House summit on Feb. 8 to discuss the Asian carp crisis with Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, and Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn.

Shades of the Algonquin Roundtable. I recommend the Great Lakes fishermen look for new careers, post haste.

 

[Rugger]

There's already a tuna them in the lakes right now. We'll be herring about this on a national scale in the coming years.

 

[Best Buckeye]

well halibut this perception, it's a whale of a story that people will be carping about for years but people will be either perched on one side of this fight or just sit on their bass and let the catfishfight go on and on.