When Fish Fight Back!!

[Chunkee]

One Fish, Two Fish, 100 Fish , 1000 Fish.

 

[Modular]

Ridiculous.

Edit: I love the drama surrounding the fish impact!

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Solving world hunger is an outboard motor and a net away.

 

[ViviTheMage]

insanity!!

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

i think a new sport involving a shotgun needs to be invented.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Chunkee
One Fish, Two Fish, 100 Fish , 1000 Fish.

is this a fox production? looks as bad as the US kitchen nightmares.




are they good eating? if so just cover the boat in nets and drive around.



edit: win

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
i think a new sport involving a shotgun needs to be invented.

This is win. And I have no clue why it hasn't already been done.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I for one welcome our new flying carp overlords.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

MFL

 

[Jeeebus]

They're almost as bad of drivers as their human counterparts.

 

[DaWhim]

the fishes jump onto the boat without you spending energy to catch it. what more can you ask for?

 

[Paladin3]

The sad part is carp are not edible, but if you squint they look kinda like skeet.

 

[Peetoeng]

Make catfood out of them.

 

[vi edit]

The Illinois river is polluted with these things too. A few years back a woman on a jetski was actually killed when one of them jumped out of the water and hit her in the head. I don't remember if she drowned or if she died from head trauma. A 15 pound fish hitting your head at 20 mile per hour isn't cool.

They are excited by boat motors and that makes them jump. There are contests each year on the river where your goal is to try and get as many of them as you can to jump into your boat.

As far as their usefulness...you can't eat them. But I guess there's a company around here looking to harvest them for fish oil supplements. The rest gets turned into some kind of sloppy gruel that they give to the prisons for punishment.

 

[Ruptga]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
i think a new sport involving a shotgun needs to be invented.

This is win. And I have no clue why it hasn't already been done.

It's already being done with bows, and the fish are even edible to boot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_carp

 

[Tea Bag]

These carp are edible (smoked carp really isn't THAT bad) and there actually is a market for them. But the problem doesn't lie in harvesting and finding a use for them. If we could we'd just net them all and grind them into fertilizer.

The problem is they have no natural predators and are reproducing at such an alarming rate that no one has a sound option for stopping these things. None of the river's predatory fish will control them and they're taking food away from forage fish, dropping other species' populations. I'm dreading the day when I catch/snag one or worse get hit in the FACE by one boating out on the Mississippi up here.

EDIT: Never thought about bow hunting for them although lots of people shoot 'regular' carp around here when they spawn. I should plan a trip to a section of the Illinois river this summer

 

[Pepsei]

In 2003 a woman jet-skiing broke her nose and a vertebra colliding with a silver carp and nearly drowned.....

 

[shocksyde]

:music: Give me back that Filet O' Fish, give me that fish! :music:

 

[Pliablemoose]

When I was a teen, we used to sneak up to overhangs over a river where carp congregated, and open up on them with shotguns. Carp massacres were great when we were stoned :evil:

 

[KGB]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
When I was a teen, we used to sneak up to overhangs over a river where carp congregated, and open up on them with shotguns. Carp massacres were great when we were stoned :evil:

Moose, That's f'ckin' sick.

 

[jonks]

another gov't experiment gone horribly awry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN8uUZZWtSk

 

[Slick5150]

These things are a MAJOR problem. Once they get into a waterbody, they completely take it over. So every other fish will die off because the Asian Carp eat all the food.

There's a huge effort ongoing to keep them from getting into the Great Lakes.

 

[uhohs]

did someone say Fish Fight?

 

[KDOG]

Originally posted by: uhohs
did someone say Fish Fight?

Win. Just EPIC win. LOL

 

[Chunkee]

Originally posted by: Slick5150
These things are a MAJOR problem. Once they get into a waterbody, they completely take it over. So every other fish will die off because the Asian Carp eat all the food.

There's a huge effort ongoing to keep them from getting into the Great Lakes.

Give them cigarettes...