Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Asian Carp: Exporting the Problem to China
America may be about ready to solve the Asian carp problem.
Job One is to turn it into a business. Towards that end, the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity has made a $2 million grant to the Big River Fish Corp of Pike County, Illinois so they can expand operations and export Asian carp back to China. The company is kicking in $1.5 million of its own money, and plans to create 60 jobs, according to Prairie State Outdoors.
Job Two is to trap these pesky bastards in even larger numbers than then are now being netted. Towards that end, Peter Sorenson at the University of Minnesota has developed a hormonal implant that simulates the production of sex pheromones in fish so that a "bait" fish, put in a trap becomes sexually irresisable. If that's is successful, one can imagine a permanent trapping system put into a river or canal, where the fish would be netted up in the front, ground up, and chummed out the back. Dust to dust, and fish back to fish. In the mean time, it's nets, shocking systems, and poison.
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3 comments:
Sounds like a plan to me, sounds safer than redirecting the flow of the river and won't require jiggering the river another time.
Can they do this with those hideous stink bugs?
From what I've heard the carp is a good eating fish. It's just our cultural prejudice that generates a gag reflex.
Has anyone on this blog eaten asian fresh water carp? I'm not sure if I have. I've eaten at a lot of Chinese resturants in my time. Otherwise I have not knowingly. I'm tempted to try. Could it be worse than talapia?
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