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McConnell Helps Deliver Decisive Blow to Win the ‘War on Carp’
Townhall.com ^ | January 11, 2020 | Ryan Shucard

Posted on 01/11/2020 6:30:18 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/11/2020 6:30:18 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Ok....when I first read the title I thought it was a war on crap.


2 posted on 01/11/2020 6:34:07 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Kaslin

Most efforts to eliminate an invasive species fail. Foxes and cats in Australia, wild hogs in Texas, Fire ants and Kudzu in Alabama, Eucalyptus in California, Zebra mussels in the Great Lakes...

Good luck but the best way is to eat as many as you can.


3 posted on 01/11/2020 6:39:00 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: Islander7
Post 2.... I had the same reaction to the headline.

Here I was expecting to read an article about WaPo or NYT.

At least, the story provided a photo of dead fish, which will be useful elsewhere on Free Republic.

This image can also be used for summarizing the many fake news stories floating around the net.

4 posted on 01/11/2020 6:44:41 AM PST by ptsal
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To: Kaslin
Just like this


5 posted on 01/11/2020 6:44:42 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: Kaslin

Turtle swimming with the fishes in the swamp?


6 posted on 01/11/2020 6:48:09 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Kaslin

The Chinese need to replace the protein from all their infected pigs they killed. Sounds like a win-win to me.


7 posted on 01/11/2020 6:51:10 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Kaslin

On a side note, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was forced to close the uppermost lock and dam on the Mississippi, due to pressure from enviro wackos and concern trolls, due to carp.
This action effectively cut off river travel to boaters, canoeists and kayakers, who live, or launch upstream. Also, it caused transfers and loss of jobs for lock operators, tow boat crews, and much industry upstream.
Biggest problem with this solution was, the carp were already above the dam.
One of the kooks responsible for this government action?
None other than the genius, Amy Klobuchar.


8 posted on 01/11/2020 7:06:08 AM PST by Fireone (Build the gallows first, then the wall!)
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To: Kaslin

I thought the name was changed to “Silver” carp because “Asian” carp was deemed to be RACIST!!!!!


9 posted on 01/11/2020 7:15:50 AM PST by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
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Harvest the flying carp and turn them into Fish emulsion fertilizer. Sell it cheap to farmers. Sell it to China.

OR fund an initiative to develop a way to produce oil and gas from the carp.

Maybe they can do both at the same time!

Create a new fresh water fishery!

If they can produce fuel and fertilizer from kitchen waste, they can produce it from flying carp!


10 posted on 01/11/2020 7:19:15 AM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: Alas Babylon!
Good luck but the best way is to eat as many as you can.

Turn 'em into cat food. Or fertilizer.

11 posted on 01/11/2020 7:30:58 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Kaslin

And what is the “decisive blow?”


12 posted on 01/11/2020 7:38:45 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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"I thought the name was changed to 'Silver' carp because 'Asian' carp was deemed to be RACIST!!!!!"

Settle the issue by calling them Oriental carp.

13 posted on 01/11/2020 7:44:00 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Alas Babylon!

Has anyone anywhere successfully eradicated an invasive species?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species_in_the_United_States

Nile Crocodile: Several specimens have been recently captured in South Florida, though no signs that the population is reproducing in the wild have been found.

YET!

Could be more problems down in God’s waiting room?


14 posted on 01/11/2020 7:51:21 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
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To: Kaslin

A federal issue?


15 posted on 01/11/2020 7:53:23 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: familyop; Roccus
re. Settle the issue by calling them Oriental carp.

No, they're here now, and we can call them "Oriental-American carp". /s

16 posted on 01/11/2020 7:55:26 AM PST by ken in texas
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To: Kaslin

You see an invasive species taking over.

I see cat food, high protein chicken feed, hog feed, fertilizer...

...and paging Jethro Tull (Ian Anderson) pelletized fish to feed the salmon in his aquaculture pens!


17 posted on 01/11/2020 7:56:05 AM PST by null and void (The government wants to disarm us after 243 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!)
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To: 9YearLurker

Federal waterways.


18 posted on 01/11/2020 7:56:21 AM PST by shelterguy
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Bass tournaments in the areas where the Asian Carp have established themselves are suffering. Several of my acquaintances that follow the Bass Pro Circuit say that where the Asian Carp have established the bass fishing has gone to poor to non-existent.
19 posted on 01/11/2020 7:59:30 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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Don’t the silver carp start out as gold fish?


20 posted on 01/11/2020 8:00:35 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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