Fish Hunters Use Pitchforks, Water Skis to Hunt Asian Carp

[fish or swim]

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/ ... sian-carp/

Watch what happens when ABC’s Alex Perez goes out on the boat to hunt for carp with the extreme fishing team:

video in link

[panfisher]

This kind of looks like some kind of fun. But it will be no joke when these and there bighead cousins get into the big lakes, and other waters like the finger lakes connected to them via natural and man made connectors (the New York State Canal system, etc.)..... !

[rolmops]

It is hard to understand why nobody is fishing these carp with big nets and make a fortune turning them into organic fertilizer.

[ifishy]

i believe they are pretty good as table fare as well they should be commercially fished and turned into fish sticks

[Chas0218]

Right one rolmops! Get these things out of here! There has to be some sort of chemical that will sterilize the fish and not allow them to breed. I wonder how many native fish are in the areas that would in impacted by netting the entire river.

[fish or swim]

They're shipping them back to China. The pollution is so bad they are killing them all off over there.

Some see dollar signs in invasive fish

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/busin ... asive-fish

"Investor Lu Xu Wu was also on hand in Grafton to announce a partnership with American Heartland to ship 35 million pounds of carp to China over the next three years."