Thread: Asian Carp

These species have the ability to produce over 1 million eggs per large adult each year, and where conditions are suitable for reproduction, their numbers cannot be controlled by agency efforts alone.

Commercial harvest is the only means of which we have to realistically reduce Asian carp numbers in those two important reservoirs, and KDFWR will do everything we can to promote additional harvest.

Both of the above were copied directly from the KDFWR website on what they have said about Ky/Barkley lakes. That is why I suggested federal subsidy for commercial fishermen to make harvesting them profitable and thus an incentive to do so in sufficient numbers to reduce the population to the point it brings the exosystem back into balance. This will allow the baitfish to rebound and the fish that depend on the baitfish.


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Originally Posted by KFC

These species have the ability to produce over 1 million eggs per large adult each year, and where conditions are suitable for reproduction, their numbers cannot be controlled by agency efforts alone.

Commercial harvest is the only means of which we have to realistically reduce Asian carp numbers in those two important reservoirs, and KDFWR will do everything we can to promote additional harvest.

Both of the above were copied directly from the KDFWR website on what they have said about Ky/Barkley lakes. That is why I suggested federal subsidy for commercial fishermen to make harvesting them profitable and thus an incentive to do so in sufficient numbers to reduce the population to the point it brings the exosystem back into balance. This will allow the baitfish to rebound and the fish that depend on the baitfish.


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KFC,
That's exactly my point. Right now commercial fishing is about the only option there is.
Someone (Feds?) will have to subsidize it enough to make it worth the commercial fishermens time.
At today's prices it's just not worth it to them,especially when they have nets hacked up by "sportsmen" who get a bait hung in them.

P