Grave News on Lake Erie

[Adamrhh]

As someone who has grown up literally 2 minutes from Lake Erie an still live right on it.. that sucks.

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[warmouth]

I don't think a gator gar can eat a 3-4 feet asain carp anyways, unless the gar is 15 feet long or something.

A 7ft long gator gar can eat lots of 2ft long carp, which are when these Asian carp are spreading millions of eggs up and down the rivers and lakes.

 

[MN_Rebel]

A 7ft long gator gar can eat lots of 2ft long carp, which are when these Asian carp are spreading millions of eggs up and down the rivers and lakes.

Still it's a problematic for the gator gars since the Asian carps are more pelagic in nature than the gator gars and even if the gator gars can eat them, they will never put a dent on the carp populations.

 

[warmouth]

Still it's a problematic for the gator gars since the Asian carps are more pelagic in nature than the gator gars and even if the gator gars can eat them, they will never put a dent on the carp populations.

Your probably right.....but its a darn good excuse to bring back a native monster to the great lakes

 

[crash83]

As far as gator gars they are still around up north in the Ohio river ..
They can be caught and transferred.
Also increase the number if bowfin will help kill off the carp young and fry. As well as Muskie and walleye .
He'll even Large mouth bass can make a dent in the juvenile population
If the carp.




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[warmouth]

As far as gator gars they are still around up north in the Ohio river ..
They can be caught and transferred.
Also increase the number if bowfin will help kill off the carp young and fry. As well as Muskie and walleye .
He'll even Large mouth bass can make a dent in the juvenile population
If the carp.




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+1

 

[projectile]

I wonder , wouldn't it be possible to engineer some chemical/ therapeutic which could selectively sterlize a given species or ensure all turn to females, since a few species are so invasive something on these lines should be studied in the long run.

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[Longshot]

I wonder , wouldn't it be possible to engineer some chemical/ therapeutic which could selectively sterlize a given species or ensure all turn to females, since a few species are so invasive something on these lines should be studied in the long run.

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If you did that you would want them to all turn male. One male can fertilize many females.

If things get too infested they could introduce triploid carp.

 

[wantokeeptrout]

new introductions rarely work out human action is the only thing that will make any noticeable change in the carp populations, adults have far too few predators, and grow too rapidly for any sort of species to make any difference unless humans start mass commercial fishing for them

as i stated earlier eat em to beat em

 

[MN_Rebel]

new introductions rarely work out human action is the only thing that will make any noticeable change in the carp populations, adults have far too few predators, and grow too rapidly for any sort of species to make any difference unless humans start mass commercial fishing for them

as i stated earlier eat em to beat em

I completely agreed with you! There are plenty of predators in Asian carp infested rivers, including gator gars, giant catfish and muskellunge and guess what? They can't even put a dent on them. That's why human action seems best thing to me to control the carp populations.