These fish are such prolific breeders that if only a few breeding pair survive you will right back in a mess within a few years. Each female lays hundreds of thousands of eggs more than once a year and they have an incredible survival rate.

It's going to take a biological agent to get them. Or a market for them which will allow huge harvest every year just to hold their numbers in check. Using them as the basis for fish food and fertilizer and cat food would be a good start. Turning them all into a base product that could be added into products that use fish meal would be a good .

Problems in State budgets as a whole and the percentage of Fish and Wildlife budgets dedicated to fisheries is an insurmountable problem at this point it would appear.

A private enterprise that could produce this universal fish meal and have their own fishing fleets could put their numbers in check if the market existed. I am not sure if it ever will.

I haven't heard much lately about the attempt to export them back to the Asian countries that do consume them regularly . Not sure how much success they have had.