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Bolt Upright wrote:

Could be good resource for the cat food industry, plus it would not
have to be shipped from China.
Well, maybe. But what if it wipes out the sport and commercial
fishery in the Great Lakes?
I don't think they were eating the Asian Carp. you can't catch them on
a hook and line either.
This was a PR thing by and for the hand full of shippers and Illinois
Politicians. They don't give a damn if the US turns into another third
world country in all degrees as long as their pockets are filled.
That's what I thought too, and what I was afraid of. They are far more
concerned with keeping the canal open than they are about the ecological
risk.

The carp are going to get into the Great Lakes no matter what we do -
maybe one year from now, maybe 5. It's going to happen.

The canal is a major transportation asset, also, and I can understand
why people want to keep it open.

It would be smart to do some planning and adapting.

Last night on WGN they had an interview with a guy from Rockford who has
worked out a way to make fish meal, which has may uses, from the Asian
carp. His point is that if we harvest them *now* in great numbers from
the canal and make cat food out of them, that will slow down their
advance and make some money for the local economy. What's not to like?

Can they be caught by net?