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23 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said:

Leave it to Roscoe and Cletus in Kentucky to solve the Asian carp influx. A little backwoods ingenuity addresses the problem created by @ExiledInIllinois and his 10 hours per week brethren. 

 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/us/2019/07/31/asian-carp-shock-electric-fishing-orig-cl.cnn

Oh, no. That will never fly at The Locks of @ExiledInIllinois.  There is actually labor involved in scooping the carp into the boat and that's a deal breaker for his crew.

 

On a related note, Mrs. @ExiledInIllinois has found a cattle prod helpful in getting his lazy ass off to work 1.5 day's/week.

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3 hours ago, Cripple Creek said:

Oh, no. That will never fly at The Locks of @ExiledInIllinois.  There is actually labor involved in scooping the carp into the boat and that's a deal breaker for his crew.

 

On a related note, Mrs. @ExiledInIllinois has found a cattle prod helpful in getting his lazy ass off to work 1.5 day's/week.

Two words: Button pusher.

 

He'd never think about shocking the fish and then selling them to reduce our national debt; it's much easier to open the gates wide, allow the invasion of a genetically modified creature, and then hold Congressional hearing to figure out how to control them.  In the words of Ronald Reagan "The scariest phrase ever spoken is "I'm with the government and I'm here to help"

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3 hours ago, Cripple Creek said:

Oh, no. That will never fly at The Locks of @ExiledInIllinois.  There is actually labor involved in scooping the carp into the boat and that's a deal breaker for his crew.

 

On a related note, Mrs. @ExiledInIllinois has found a cattle prod helpful in getting his lazy ass off to work 1.5 day's/week.

 

Modern engineering   -  Use a BIG net and drag it behind a tug.  Bring it to shore and advertise FREE FISH FRESH out of the water 

 

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Dude... Didn't even read it yet... But, I suspect this has been happening for 20 years.  Where have you been?

 

There is a stock photo on internet since 2009:

 

GSA_Asian-Carp01-720x420.jpg

 

It's 2019... 10 years later and you are coming to the realization, they shock fish. WTF... Nothing like getting with the program... Glad I am NOT in a jailhouse trying to call my attorney.  Put down the football-sized burrito and BigGulp® Dr.Pepper® and wake up, it's 2019 Rip Van Carpwinkle!

 

4 hours ago, BringBackFergy said:

Leave it to Roscoe and Cletus in Kentucky to solve the Asian carp influx. A little backwoods ingenuity addresses the problem created by @ExiledInIllinois and his 10 hours per week brethren. 

 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/us/2019/07/31/asian-carp-shock-electric-fishing-orig-cl.cnn

 

 

Can anybody say: Posting Malpractice!

 

Even a button pusher can recognize that!

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3 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Dude... Didn't even read it yet... But, I suspect this has been happening for 20 years.  Where have you been?

 

There is a stock photo on internet since 2009:

 

GSA_Asian-Carp01-720x420.jpg

 

It's 2019... 10 years later and you are coming to the realization, they shock fish. WTF... Nothing like getting with the program... Glad I am NOT in a jailhouse trying to call my attorney.  Put down the football-sized burrito and BigGulp® Dr.Pepper®!

 

 

These Kentucky rednecks don't screw around like you fellas in the "Corps".  They don't buy government brand fish food and feed the little pests nor do they hand out coloring books entitled "Albert the Asian Carp Swims Upstream", and they certainly don't hand out baseball caps with an Asian Carp head on the front.  These good ole boys put their minds to work and eradicated thousands of "foreigners" while providing sustenance for those less fortunate.  I'd say they are teaching you a lesson but you're too bullheaded (see what I did there?) to take their advice.

 

Oh, I forgot. You and your PETA friends may protest this method as painful for the carp. I'd gladly contribute to their electric bill to clean out waters of these pesky animals which you have single-handedly allowed to pollute our inland waters.

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6 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said:

These Kentucky rednecks don't screw around like you fellas in the "Corps".  They don't buy government brand fish food and feed the little pests nor do they hand out coloring books entitled "Albert the Asian Carp Swims Upstream", and they certainly don't hand out baseball caps with an Asian Carp head on the front.  These good ole boys put their minds to work and eradicated thousands of "foreigners" while providing sustenance for those less fortunate.  I'd say they are teaching you a lesson but you're too bullheaded (see what I did there?) to take their advice.

 

Oh, I forgot. You and your PETA friends may protest this method as painful for the carp. I'd gladly contribute to their electric bill to clean out waters of these pesky animals which you have single-handedly allowed to pollute our inland waters.

That's why 10 years ago... The people in Kentucky proposed renaming Asian carp: "Kentucky Bluefin" so they can market it better for human consumption.

 

Where have you been the last decade?

 

This is new? 

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1 minute ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

That's why 10 years ago... The people in Kentucky proposed renaming Asian carp: "Kentucky Bluefin" so they can market it better for human consumption.

 

Where have you been the last decade?

 

This is new? 

No, the question is "Where have you been for the last 10 years?" Mr. "Come on in Carp...the water's great!!"

 

It's ok to admit the Kentuckians have the answer....as opposed to the USACOE

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One fish kill took place in 2009:

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121104335

 

They shock the good, "game" fish first, then relocate them.

 

Then in 2011, they did it again... That time taking out 100,000 pounds of fish with about 11,000 different pieces of fish from 30+ different species.  NOT ONE Asian carp was found.  2 miles were wiped out below the lock where I push buttons.

 

That's over a decade ago?  What did @BringBackFergy wake up from his decade long nap?

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1 minute ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

One fish kill took place in 2009:

 

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121104335

 

They shock the good, "game" fish first, then relocate them.

 

Then in 2011, they did it again... That time taking out 100,000 pounds of fish with about 11,000 different pieces of fish from 30+ different species.  NOT ONE Asian carp was found.  2 miles were wiped out below the lock where I push buttons.

 

That's over a decade ago?  What did @BringBackFergy wake up from his decade long nap?

So why did this most recent "shock and awe" (shown above) yield thousands of pounds of Asian carp?? Maybe someone was asleep at the switch upstream to allow thousands and thousands of carp to enter Kentucky waters in the last 9 years??? Maybe...just maybe

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17 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said:

No, the question is "Where have you been for the last 10 years?" Mr. "Come on in Carp...the water's great!!"

 

It's ok to admit the Kentuckians have the answer....as opposed to the USACOE

 

I've been thinking on this .. FAKE NEWS   Rednecks done use no stinking Eel-ectricity 

 

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And  I found out what @ExiledInIllinois does with his Free time 

 

https://www.pbs.org/video/redneck-fishing-flying-asian-carp-illinois-river-qt6u1a/

 

 

 

the 33 second mark 

 

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Just now, BringBackFergy said:

So why did this most recent "shock and awe" (shown above) yield thousands of pounds of Asian carp?? Maybe someone was asleep at the switch upstream to allow thousands and thousands of carp to enter Kentucky waters in the last 9 years??? Maybe...just maybe

Because our environment, water is getting cleaner and healthier every year?

 

Why aren't they taking off in Asia, rest of world?

 

USACE has been shocking for 10+ years.  They come in by the lock and launch.  I can show you the log book.  Hundreds of pages from the last 10 summers where they sign in... They shock and net.

 

Again... I am (seriously) confused... This ain't new with some hick from Kentucky thinking this up.  It's 2019. Where have you been?

 

I hope you don't pull this sh... In court!  LoL...

 

Yet... In 10+ years, they only found 2 Asian carp up by where I push buttons.  They found more alligators.  Go figure.

 

True.  I sh.... You not.

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Throw $2 million of nitrogen in the water a year.  Create a stinking stagnant dead zone for 2 miles.  Just like the old polluted days, nothing will get through, they will stay in Kentucky.

 

The other $100s millions wasted on biologists, etc... Keeping "job security" will go back to taxpayers.

 

Boom!  Problem solved... But what do these science guys do, clean water freaks do... They make the water cleaner every year... Even add oxygen, waterfalls all along the canals to get the water clean.  Sure I add bubbles in winter to keep ice forming... But a nitrogen dead zone, kill zone, would create a barrier miles away...

 

Yet... We waste 100s of millions to pay some high-priced pencil pushing biologist... So they can pay off their degree.

 

Such a simple solution.  Why wasn't this a propblem years ago... Because the waters were too damn polluted.

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@BringBackFergy is a bit skeptical.

 

How come invasive species weren't that much of a problem before 1972? We found a way around the sea lamprey.  They came from the Finger Lakes region, Atlantic.

 

Zebra mussel "invasion" dates back to one ballast transfer in Detroit area, 1987... We are dealing with that.

 

Why the problem now?

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16 hours ago, BringBackFergy said:

No, the question is "Where have you been for the last 10 years?" Mr. "Come on in Carp...the water's great!!"

 

It's ok to admit the Kentuckians have the answer....as opposed to the USACOE

Do the carp get health insurance and a driver’s license when the USACOE let them in?

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19 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Throw $2 million of nitrogen in the water a year.  Create a stinking stagnant dead zone for 2 miles.  Just like the old polluted days, nothing will get through, they will stay in Kentucky.

 

The other $100s millions wasted on biologists, etc... Keeping "job security" will go back to taxpayers.

 

Boom!  Problem solved... But what do these science guys do, clean water freaks do... They make the water cleaner every year... Even add oxygen, waterfalls all along the canals to get the water clean.  Sure I add bubbles in winter to keep ice forming... But a nitrogen dead zone, kill zone, would create a barrier miles away...

 

Yet... We waste 100s of millions to pay some high-priced pencil pushing biologist... So they can pay off their degree.

 

Such a simple solution.  Why wasn't this a propblem years ago... Because the waters were too damn polluted.

Sure, problem solved. Thousands out of work whilst (AAFM) you continued to be paid for your non work. You and your ilk who care only about themselves need a wake up call.

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21 minutes ago, Cripple Creek said:

Sure, problem solved. Thousands out of work whilst (AAFM) you continued to be paid for your non work. You and your ilk who care only about themselves need a wake up call.

^^^^^^The rubber and glue defense.^^^^^^

 

I do $10 million a month in business. 

 

Match that Mr.Fancy Dancy! THAT'S $800,000 for every day I work!

 

Bet that makes @BringBackFergy jealous.

 

EDIT: MAKE for the country.  NOT spend, like the other government employees do.

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27 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

^^^^^^The rubber and glue defense.^^^^^^

 

I do $10 million a month in business. 

 

Match that Mr.Fancy Dancy! THAT'S $800,000 for every day I work!

 

Bet that makes @BringBackFergy jealous.

 

EDIT: MAKE for the country.  NOT spend, like the other government employees do.

Yes, your organ I zation moves product that lines the pockets of your billionaire cronies. Meanwhilst it turns rivers around, damns natural bodies of water, buries entire towns (some whilst still occupied) under hundreds of feet of water and invites invasive species to stay & make themselves at home. This whilst at the same time those same cronies are reinforcing our borders to keep human beings out of this great melting pot.

 

Shame on you.

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46 minutes ago, Cripple Creek said:

Yes, your organ I zation moves product that lines the pockets of your billionaire cronies. Meanwhilst it turns rivers around, damns natural bodies of water, buries entire towns (some whilst still occupied) under hundreds of feet of water and invites invasive species to stay & make themselves at home. This whilst at the same time those same cronies are reinforcing our borders to keep human beings out of this great melting pot.

 

Shame on you.

@ExiledInIllinois is a "one-percenter"?? It all makes sense now. Driving expensive, sporty vehicles, sending his kids to elite private schools, vacationing at his summer place in VT, buying the finest beer, growing award winning crops.  He's an elitist who can't seem to understand sometimes the easiest, backwoods solution (electrocuting those little critters) is the best solution.

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19 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said:

@ExiledInIllinois is a "one-percenter"?? It all makes sense now. Driving expensive, sporty vehicles, sending his kids to elite private schools, vacationing at his summer place in VT, buying the finest beer, growing award winning crops.  He's an elitist who can't seem to understand sometimes the easiest, backwoods solution (electrocuting those little critters) is the best solution.

University of Iowa isn't "private."

 

/smh...

1 hour ago, Cripple Creek said:

Yes, your organ I zation moves product that lines the pockets of your billionaire cronies. Meanwhilst it turns rivers around, damns natural bodies of water, buries entire towns (some whilst still occupied) under hundreds of feet of water and invites invasive species to stay & make themselves at home. This whilst at the same time those same cronies are reinforcing our borders to keep human beings out of this great melting pot.

 

Shame on you.

Three letters:

 

TVA

 

(Tennessee Valley Authority)

 

Three more letters:

 

PTH

 

(Power To Hillbillies)

 

All brought to by and subsidized by the Industrial & Industrious Northern States.

 

Chew on that... They'd still be backwards and losing the Civil War with no internet & air conditioning if we weren't so benevolent.

 

Pfffft... A silly fish, that is tasty... And people get all hysterical!

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1 hour ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

University of Iowa isn't "private."

 

/smh...

Three letters:

 

TVA

 

(Tennessee Valley Authority)

 

Three more letters:

 

PTH

 

(Power To Hillbillies)

 

All brought to by and subsidized by the Industrial & Industrious Northern States.

 

Chew on that... They'd still be backwards and losing the Civil War with no internet & air conditioning if we weren't so benevolent.

 

Pfffft... A silly fish, that is tasty... And people get all hysterical!

Thanks Polly Anna.

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14 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

I prefer: Mr.Sunshine. I am your sunshine...

 

 

Is there a song that goes “I can rationalize anything that benefits me because I only care about me and the rest of you can go ***** yourselves” because that’s your theme song right there, Bubby.

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28 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

I kinda feel bad for EII.  Must be a really yucky feeling when you realize you've been outsmarted by Kentucky.

LoL... Why?  There are no Asian carp up here.

 

NEWSFLASH: The whole debate is to stop them from spreading from Kentucky to the Lakes.  It's their problem down there... Better them then us.

 

It was the Redneck catfish farms down there where they first brought Asian carp in to clean the aquafarms during 1970s.  They escaped during the 1990s floods.  Kentucky needs to solve the own problems.

 

People are really misinformed.

 

Myself... It's all just a big old government boondoggle. They move they, they'll move.  Kentucky wants to shock, let them shock.

 

Since 2010 they have found 2.  Count them 2 Asian carp.  Both silver carp and both SHOCKED and FWIW, by the same government fisherman (I shi... You NOT, same guy).  Once in 2011 & once in 2018.  Both fish were studied and determined that they didn't spend much time up here... Months if best.  What did they do?  Take a helicopter here.  Of course they were planted. Can anybody say: "False Flag" = more $$$$$$$ funding.

 

They have been shocking up here for 15 years & they found two planted fish?  By the same guy.  That's stuff you don't hear in the "Carp are invading, sky is falling narrative."

 

This is BIG $$$ if they can keep this narrative going.

 

Good for Kentucky.  They made their mess, now clean it up.

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Oh... The head of the eDNA tech at Notre Dame that sold his flawed tech to the Feds in 2009 when his Michigan funding was running out is now at Cornell.  I bet @BringBackFergy knows him!  After a decade of studying, they don't even use the technology that much... Too many real world vectors, false positives.  The last decade, all they do is shock and net.  But they can't find Asian carp up here! Because there is none up here.  They just shock the other fish and release.  They pulled 100,000 pounds out in 2011, no Asian carp.

 

Again... More power to the Rednecks... It's been 25 years and they are finally getting to shocking, cleaning up their mess they started.  It started down there in Arkansas, Kentucky back in the 1990s.

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9 hours ago, Cripple Creek said:

Yes, your organ I zation moves product that lines the pockets of your billionaire cronies. Meanwhilst it turns rivers around, damns natural bodies of water, buries entire towns (some whilst still occupied) under hundreds of feet of water and invites invasive species to stay & make themselves at home. This whilst at the same time those same cronies are reinforcing our borders to keep human beings out of this great melting pot.

 

Shame on you.

 

So, I take it you're an off-the-grid, back-to-nature type ... except ya gotta have your laptop and internet ...

 

FYI ... governments have been damming rivers and creeks for thousands of years to provide water for irrigation and power.  It's part of the price we pay for no longer being nomadic hunter gatherers clad in animal skins and dying by the time we're forty.

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3 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

 

Oh... The head of the eDNA tech at Notre Dame that sold his flawed tech to the Feds in 2009 when his Michigan funding was running out is now at Cornell.  I bet @BringBackFergy knows him!  After a decade of studying, they don't even use the technology that much... Too many real world vectors, false positives.  The last decade, all they do is shock and net.  But they can't find Asian carp up here! Because there is none up here.  They just shock the other fish and release.  They pulled 100,000 pounds out in 2011, no Asian carp.

 

Again... More power to the Rednecks... It's been 25 years and they are finally getting to shocking, cleaning up their mess they started.  It started down there in Arkansas, Kentucky back in the 1990s.

 

Wasn't it some fish farmer who imported the Asian carp and his fish escaped during a flood or something like that?

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20 minutes ago, SoTier said:

 

Wasn't it some fish farmer who imported the Asian carp and his fish escaped during a flood or something like that?

Yeah, in 1970s... The first were, with the blessing of the government.  Go figure.  Big Floods in 1993.  Arkansas ground zero.  Catfish farms.

 

Actually, interestingly... They tried to get the Asian carp to take off in Nile... In Egypt during late 1970s... As a food source.  No go, too polluted, etc...

 

They need clean water.  Big river flows to spawn...   As we started taking care of our waters better, they became unintended consequence.

 

Their presence is solely related to clean water.  I am all for clean water... But accept the consequences.  Life ain't fair and perfect.

 

If China wasn't a stinking ecological disaster, they'd be taking off in the big rivers there and treated as a food source.

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2 hours ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Yeah, in 1970s... The first were, with the blessing of the government.  Go figure.  Big Floods in 1993.  Arkansas ground zero.  Catfish farms.

 

Actually, interestingly... They tried to get the Asian carp to take off in Nile... In Egypt during late 1970s... As a food source.  No go, too polluted, etc...

 

They need clean water.  Big river flows to spawn...   As we started taking care of our waters better, they became unintended consequence.

 

Their presence is solely related to clean water.  I am all for clean water... But accept the consequences.  Life ain't fair and perfect.

 

If China wasn't a stinking ecological disaster, they'd be taking off in the big rivers there and treated as a food source.

Thank you Fed Gov for allowing our Asian fish cousins to infiltrate our pristine waters. 

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On 8/1/2019 at 4:21 AM, BringBackFergy said:

These Kentucky rednecks don't screw around like you fellas in the "Corps".  They don't buy government brand fish food and feed the little pests nor do they hand out coloring books entitled "Albert the Asian Carp Swims Upstream", and they certainly don't hand out baseball caps with an Asian Carp head on the front.  These good ole boys put their minds to work and eradicated thousands of "foreigners" while providing sustenance for those less fortunate.  I'd say they are teaching you a lesson but you're too bullheaded (see what I did there?) to take their advice.

 

Oh, I forgot. You and your PETA friends may protest this method as painful for the carp. I'd gladly contribute to their electric bill to clean out waters of these pesky animals which you have single-handedly allowed to pollute our inland waters.

 

Build. That. CONCRETE REINFORCED BUTTRESS!!

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