On Mon, 1 Jan 2018 15:37:15 -0800 (PST), Steve Wartz
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>notbob wrote:
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>> On 2018-01-01, > wrote:
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>> > Yes I prefer salt water fish and particularly northern sal****er fish,
>> > better flavour than tropical water fish.
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>> So, what I wanna know, is, why hasn't anyone figured out a way to
>> harvest all the damn 'jumping carp', in The Great Lakes feeder rivers.
>> Seems like they'd be a perfect source fer 'fish meal' to feed to farmed
>> salmon, if nothing else. 8|
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>There are so many MONSTER - sized Asian carp about that they are UNSTOPPABLE, nb.... :
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>http://farmweeknow.com/story-asian-c...aters-0-161896
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>"Asian carp growing into 'monsters' in Illinois waters
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>WIU students reel in 76-pounder from a Mississippi River bay south of the Quad Cities; silver carp caught near Lake Michigan.
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>Published on: Jun 30, 2017
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>Students at Western Illinois University (WIU), who monitor invasive Asian carp in Illinois, caught a 76-pounder recently in Sturgeon Bay near New Boston.
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>Jim Lamer, site manager for WIU’s Alice L. Kibbe Life Science Research Station, says carp that size aren’t uncommon.
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>“You see this really big and rapid growth and these fish attaining really large sizes in these areas where they’ve newly invaded or their densities aren’t very high, so there’s not a lot of competition,” Lamer said. “They can grow very quickly.”
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>The research station, based in Warsaw IL, monitors Asian carp at various sites throughout Illinois.
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>Meanwhile, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources reported the finding of an 8-pound silver carp in the Illinois Waterway, approximately 9 miles from Lake Michigan. The location is upriver from a system of electronic barriers designed to keep Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes..."

I hope they have more success than they did with zebra mussels
reaching the Great Lakes, but I doubt it.