Louisiana and Illinois Find Asian Carp Solution With “Can't Beat Em’ Eat Em” Campaign
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From the Gulf to the Great Lakes, from Denver to Knoxville, Bighead and Asian Silver carp have overtaken manmade lakes and large sections of rivers threatening the ecosystem and the multi-million dollar recreational and commercial fishing industry.
These two carps are invasive species introduced into fish farm ponds in the central Midwest in the 1970’s to clean murky pond water. Flooding along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers caused ponds to overflow, allowing the carp to escape into rivers and reproduce in the wild.
Eight years ago, Louisiana Chef Philippe Parola approached the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board expressing his concern for native species of fish in Louisiana and the Gulf threatened by the rapidly growing numbers of Asian carp, a fish with few predators to population growth. A single female can produce up to one million eggs per year. If left unchecked the impact could severely damage recreational fishing, tourism, and the watersports industry up and down the Mississippi.
The threat of the possibility of the invasive carp’s ability to thrive in the brackish estuaries forming Louisiana’s coastline raised the fear the fish could decimate...