It's offical........Asian Carp are in Minnesota waters :(

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jworth said:
They are here to stay... Just like the snakeheads, nature will adapt and be fine.
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I dunno about that one. There are some papers that there are noticeable declining in native populations when Asian carps take over the river systems. Buffaloes, gizzard shads and paddlefish showing the signs of starvation by being in poor conditons and the native population declines. Even the asian carps are being starved in some sections of the river where overpopulation occurs. It's hard to say that nature will adapt and be fine...

You are right, they are here to stay but that doesn't mean nature will adapt and just hopefully be fine.
 
.....not mentioned that I live by Mississippi River.......
 
it has no choice but to adapt. Paddlefish populations could suffer as well as gizzard shad because they are so prolific, but other fish will forage on the offspring asians. They may start to "replace" shad populations. They do make good cut bait as well. I heard they are pretty delicious.
 
jworth said:
it has no choice but to adapt. Paddlefish populations could suffer as well as gizzard shad because they are so prolific, but other fish will forage on the offspring asians. They may start to "replace" shad populations. They do make good cut bait as well. I heard they are pretty delicious.
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Your are right, the nature and us have no choice but to adapt to these asian carps, even if us and the native fishes have to suffering for awhile.
 
jworth said:
we just need to learn how to fillet out the set of 'y' bones they have.
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Or treat them like whitefish/cisco/tulibees......after all they have Y-bones and is excellent when smoked. I've seen some Asian carp fillets and they are quite whitey and less red than common carp fillets. Honesty I think the name "carp" prevents most Americans to eat these Asian carps since they thinks their meat are same to the common carp.
 
MN_Rebel said:
Yeah I did heard about Asian carps in Lake Michigan...I believe they did find some traces of Asian carp DNA in Lake Michigan, just not an actual fish. Funny thing MN DNR did find traces of asian carp DNA in Twin Cities also (in Mississippi River & Lake Pepin) but no actual fish. They did found their first asian carp in that area in 2006.

I hope they don't get past Coon Rapids because once they got past Coon Rapids....they are going ruin Minnesota's excellent fisheries up north.
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coon rapids wont stop them. the overflow side is passable. thats not including the full opened main side. when everything is opened it is slow enough to pass.
 
Again, if people started eating them regularly, this really wouldn't be a problem.

Heck, it would help local economies if some people had the mind to commercial fish for these Carp and sell them off to Asia, where a lot of us would eat a carp given the chance.
 
jworth said:
They are here to stay... Just like the snakeheads, nature will adapt and be fine.
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The difference between these carp and the snakeheads is that the snakeheads didn't decimate entire ecosystems rather they were able to live side-by-side with the native fishes with little trouble versus these carp simply eat most, if not all, of the food and starve off most of the native fishes. The snakeheads are also far less invasive and are not spreading much, if at all, any more whereas these carp spread extremely quickly in comparison to the snakeheads.
 
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