TomInTib Owns Lakes, Big Lakes, Hot Rod

[GOBUCKS]

Thread is just a stupid kpete-ish copy-and-paste job, and then Hollis chimes in:

Mon Oct 28, 2013, 06:34 PM
Star Member Purveyor (15,730 posts)

Asian Carp Breed In Great Lakes, Threaten Fishing


TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Scientists said Monday they have for the first time documented that an Asian carp species has successfully reproduced within the Great Lakes watershed, an ominous development in the struggle to slam the door on the hungry invaders that could threaten native fish.

An analysis of four grass carp captured last year in Ohio's Sandusky River, a tributary of Lake Erie, found they had spent their entire lives there and were not introduced through means such as stocking, according to researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey and Bowling Green State University.

Grass carp are among four species imported from Asia decades ago to control algae and unwanted plants in controlled settings such as sewage treatment lagoons. They escaped into the wild and have spread into the Mississippi and other rivers and lakes across the nation's heartland.

Of greatest concern in the Great Lakes region are bighead and silver carp, prolific breeders that gobble huge amounts of plankton — tiny plants and animals that are vital to aquatic food chains. Scientists say if they gain a foothold in the lakes, they could spread widely and destabilize a fishing industry valued at $7 billion.

Grass carp are less worrisome because they eat larger plants instead of plankton and don't compete with native species, although they could harm valuable wetland vegetation where some fish spawn.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023939002#post10
      

Response to Purveyor (Original post)
Mon Oct 28, 2013, 06:42 PM
Star Member panader0 (10,018 posts)
2. Fish for the carp. They are not as tasty as other fish to humans,

but could be a good source of food and nutrition.

Response to panader0 (Reply #2)
Mon Oct 28, 2013, 08:31 PM
Link Speed (584 posts)
11. Tilapia are grass carp. And they're so tasty, too.

Hey, Dude, from those of us in Wine Country.

I was banging on a guitar and thinking about you, just last night

Response to Purveyor (Original post)
Mon Oct 28, 2013, 08:27 PM
Link Speed (584 posts)
10. We got some in one of our tanks

We think they came in a tank of Florida Bass fingerlings. Even though we sorted the whole lot, a few must have gotten past us.

They wiped out the vegetation of a 20-foot-deep, 370-acre tank within three years. Caused us all kinds of problems.

[Ptarmigan]

In his fantasy world. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Lakes?  Hell, I'm surprised he didn't claim to own a large share of the Lakers.

[diesel driver]

Lakes?  Hell, I'm surprised he didn't claim to own a large share of the Lakers.

That's tomorrow's post.   

Since when is a 24 foot deep, 370 acre LAKE referred to as a TANK?

[Big Dog]

That's tomorrow's post.   

Since when is a 24 foot deep, 370 acre LAKE referred to as a TANK?

Hell, I thought that was Hollis TomInTib Link Speed's hot tub!

[JohnnyReb]

That's tomorrow's post.   

Since when is a 24 foot deep, 370 acre LAKE referred to as a TANK?

My relatives in Texas call a farm pond a tank.

[Alpha Mare]

My relatives in Texas call a farm pond a tank.

I don't know anyone with a tank that big. He's talking about stocking a fishing lake; probably in a public park.

[GOBUCKS]

I don't know anyone with a tank that big. He's talking about stocking a fishing lake; probably in a public park.

I guarantee you, in TiTworld that 370-acre lake is entirely on his property, and is far from his biggest lake.

He once had a lake nearly that large that, on a whim, he filled with wine.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I guarantee you, in TiTworld that 370-acre lake is entirely on his property, and is far from his biggest lake.

He once had a lake nearly that large that, on a whim, he filled with wine.

...and not just any old cheap wine...