Carp Stimulus

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

For many people, Asian carp are proving more boon than bane. Bolstered by government support, the Asian carp harvest has leapt thirtyfold in the past decade, creating a new industry, attracting fishermen and entrepreneurs, and feeding people all over the world.

LINK (Via: The NY Times)

Meanwhile on the St Croix things are not looking so rosy.

Record Idaho trout was hybrid

The record-breaking trout Mark Adams caught on July 25 in American Falls Reservoir turns out to be a rainbow-cutthroat hybrid.

LINK (Via:The Spokesman Review)

Ottawa silences scientist over West Coast salmon study

Photo: Marlies Jordan

Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading fisheries scientist whose discovery could help explain why salmon stocks have been crashing off Canada's West Coast, according to documents obtained by Postmedia News. The government released 762 pages of documents relating to the Miller study to Postmedia but many passages and pages were blacked out before they were released.

The documents show the Fisheries Department wanted to publicize Miller's study, which raises the spectre of a mysterious virus killing huge numbers of Fraser River salmon before they reach their spawning grounds.

LINK (The Vancouver Sun)

Could it be the migrating salmon are picking up the virus as they pass the fish farms?

A virus that has killed millions of salmon in Chile and ravaged the fish farming industry there was probably brought over from Norway, a major salmon producer has acknowledged.

Since 1984, when it was first diagnosed in Norway, the I.S.A. virus had an outbreak in every major salmon-farming region in the world except British Columbia, said Don Staniford, the global coordinator for the Global Alliance Against Industrial Aquaculture.

LINK (Via:The NY Times)

Yellowstone cutthroat returned to Clarks Fork system

The flatbed truck with a green aquatics tank arrived at the trailhead at 9 a.m., carrying 900 genetically pure Yellowstone cutthroat trout.

Bucket by bucket, technicians with Wyoming Game and Fish carried the trout to the banks of Dead Indian Creek, a fast-running tributary that feeds the Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River.

Monday"s release marks an ongoing effort by state biologists to restore Yellowstone cutthroat to native waters across the greater Yellowstone ecosystem, including Dead Indian Creek.

LINK (Via: The Billings Gazette)

According to the biologists “This stocking will help provide immediate angler opportunities.”

Let Them Eat Carp

Illinois says it wants to deal with the problem of invasive Asian carp by grinding them up into fish sticks and feeding the poor.

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Government Shutdown Prevents Potential Record Fish

Well sort of....

John Gergen landed a monster musky on Lake Sallie in Minnesota that came in at 57.5 inches and 54+ pounds on the family scale -- a weight that would break the state record.

Only problem for John was that due to Minnesota's government shutdown, that is also threatening to cut off the states beer supply, he could not find an open DNR office to direct him to a certified scale.So instead of doing a Google search, which would have told him that the local meat market or bait shop would have a state certified scale, he gave up on getting the fish officially weighed.

LINK (Via: The Twin Cities Pioneer Press)