The modified-unified method of asian carp removal is brand new, and revolutionary. It's being tested on Kentucky waters for the first time ever, and this video will teach you all about it!
Gar/pike/bass and welsh catfish will do the job fast, in Europe we got opposite problem with predators like catfish and pikes, everyone want to fish for carp and they destroying carp population.
That is actually genius. They have a bunch of bones that make them hard to prepare them for our consumption, but cats don't care. It would make for a high protein cat food that's cheap as all shit.
Serious cat food. Fish emulsion is great in the garden. Shoot I’m sure there’s a way to fish stick-i-lize em heard there boney but good eatin will get this figured out. Can’t beat em use em haha
There are retired salmon seiners in Alaska that could be purchased for little, transported to this lake and could catch this many fish in 45 minutes. A few sets per year in each lake would help keep these carp cleaned up at a reasonable cost.
That's a good point. However, I wonder if the cost of driving/freighting the boat across land would, on top of maintenance repairs on old boats, would outweigh the benefits
@@illinidave the Carp came to USA because someone introduce them to eat up algae in a lake and they got away after a flood in the early 20th century You actually stole the carp from Asia
Invasive carp were originally imported from Southeast Asia to the southern United States to help aquaculture and wastewater treatment facilities keep retention ponds clean. Flooding and accidental releases allowed these fish to escape into the Mississippi River system and migrate into the Missouri and Illinois rivers. The Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers are all connected and therefore fish swim freely between them. The Illinois River is also connected to the Great Lakes by a manmade connection, known as the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
@@BobbyOfEarth yes and it works, although marginally when you consider the thousands (millions?) of carp that are living, breeding and decimating that whole multi river system. They may never catch up with this issue. Not at all unlike all the non native snakes in the everglades. It is a gross understatement to say that they are trying to keep the carp from becoming overpopulated. The Carp already are by a significant factor. Being non native 2 is being overpopulated in reality.
Agree, isn't the biomass fish protein alone worth mega dollars? It has to be, create a new industry, fish the hell out of it and have a double effect; reduce the carp and pocket some serious money in the affected States.
Andrew Zimmern from the show ''Bizarre Food'' said the same about this fish. With food insecurity going ever higher in the states and around the world, this fish could help immensely in the fight against world hunger.
I snag for them at Alton IL, when I go over there to fish. They taste like crap and there are hundreds of bones in them. Only the big ones yield any sizable meat. I've seen 75 pounders snagged, and heard of 90-100 pounders being caught. They're a shit fish and ugly as hell. But a lot of fun to snag.
@@bgdesignandsolutions Damn, sounds like you don't know how to cook them. The east has eaten them for hundreds of years at least. People who only eat fried fish with easy, boneless fillets are missing out.
I heard about a great carp recipe. Cook carp with butter, salt, pepper and lemon on a cedar shingle at 350° for 35 min. When fish done, throw away and eat shingle.
I recently tried it and was very surprised how good they tast. In fact I won't be throwing them back any longer them dudes are going home w me from now on and eaten. I was surprised how they were not fishy tasting at all. Now looking into canning them I have heard via RU-vid they can well much like salmon. Nothing like having my pantry full of 100% protein for free. I hear it's really good just on a craker.... cooking ... pan medium heat olive oil, butter, spice, 3 minutes each side until cooked throughly.... meat slides off the bone easy w a fork.
We are about to under go an extreme fertilizer shortage over the next year. These carp make very good fertilizer if processed as such? So, get business to take advantage of it and they should make away with these fish in short order.
Less a shortage and more of an equalization. Too much fertilizer is bad as it encourages the growing of algaes and other things that love nitrates. This removal will help keep those things down and help these ecosystems.
I'd love to have been in the meeting where they picked the name "modified unified method" - I bet they were laughing like there were stoned - knowing that people would have to say "modified unified method" thousands and thousands of times - and write it in emails and newsletters .... good times 🤣🤣🤣💀💀
I live in Illinois 10 years ago I told business in and around Kentucky lake they had a Asian carp problem they denied and ignored me now look what they got Ben going there with my party for 50 years no reason to go any more with all those carp
Are they doing damaging amounts of removal of ANY local/native species? Buffalo specifically? Are the numbers taken beyond what is protected? How knowledgable are you in this field?
This looks more like a commercial harvesting technique than an invasive species management technique. Everywhere in the lake where the nets are not, the fish are thriving. That includes the main body of KY Lake. I don't know how you'd do that, considering the barge traffic.
These Asian "Carp" aren't really related to those found in Australia, which were imported from europe back in the day. This fish doesn't compare to those on the table too; they're delicious eating. It's mild, white flesh is sweeter than tilapia, cleaner tasting than catfish and less flaky than cod.
There is a plant that flash freeze it and sell them to Asia. Because the carp is wild fish instead of fish farms. It gets attention despite being frozen over fresh fish. The fish is ate all the way from Poland to East Asia
These fish would be clean easily if those states wasn't so hard head on being doing their way.. there was business offers but none went through due to certain factors. These fish taste great just that for the American, they preferred less boney fish. Like they said, a fruit that is nutritionist always thorny.
Looked up AUSTRALIA for help European carp infestation 1980s to 2010 basically on top of it next the Cane toad along with foxes & rabbits boar and other wild animals that roam the deserts who breed up in plagues when the wet season comes . 20 years work to reduced invasions . surrounding islands also rabbits rats foxes
Good luck getting rid of those fish the Asian carp . If those get into the great lakes they will devastate our commercial fishing industry and sporting and fishing industry.
Because of intentional introduction by people who don't care about native species down south. They were "farming" in Southern US for the Asian population in those areas and the fish escaped during a hurricane. Since then they been slowly working their way up the Mississippi River system.
nvasive carp were originally imported from Southeast Asia to the southern United States to help aquaculture and wastewater treatment facilities keep retention ponds clean. Flooding and accidental releases allowed these fish to escape into the Mississippi River system and migrate into the Missouri and Illinois rivers. The Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers are all connected and therefore fish swim freely between them. The Illinois River is also connected to the Great Lakes by a manmade connection, known as the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.
why not weld some aluminum poles onto a boat, one on each side and hook a big net to them, Trail close behind another boat and they would jump right into your nets. That way you stop impacting other fish species.
Carp is crap as food because the bone structure is completely different from other fish. The are long curvy bones embedded in the flesh and one can easily choke on them while eating. Destroy them.
Asian carp problem has very little to do with mother nature,more human intervention and stupidity,over population has affected Australia more than weather,we've always had storms,floods,fire and drought. I'm only 51 but I've seen plenty of heat,cold and all the rest,but carp in our dams was not a natural occurrence
Its annoying to have to put up with unrelated useless talk and taking over 7 minutes to explain a relatively simply process of using nets to concentrate masses of these problematic Asian carp for removal. Only goes to say making (and wasting your time) trying to be "intelligent" when it can be explained in less than a minute
