Utah Lake-Carp Removal
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- This video was produced for the June Sucker Recovery Implementation Program in 2009. It documents the methods being used to remove carp from Utah Lake, one of the largest freshwater lakes west of the Mississippi. It has been determined that removal of 75% of the carp from Utah Lake will allow the lake to return to a more-natural state.
For more up-to-date information, check out JuneSuckerRecovery.org.
carp is actually good to eat if you know how to prepare it, you need a pine board as long as your fish and as wide, lay your carp on the board and nail it down. slide the board with fish attached in a 350 degree oven and leave it there for one hour. then remove it and throw away the carp and eat the board
Too funny!
roy hoco not Asian carp
😂😂😂😂😂
Randy She No guessing here. That carp flavor can't be washed out.
LMAO
My grandmother would can Carp in a pressure cooker and use it in tuna recipes instead of using tuna. Before anyone says anything negative, as long as you clean the carp thoroughly, you should have no problems with it.
I lived near Utah lake as a kid in the 80’s. It was blue, clear and you could catch trout pretty easily.
I went back in 1998 and it was green, the water actually felt slimey and it was filled with carp.
An update on how this process worked would be great. Curious to know how the eco is coming along
Looked it up - so far a 78% decline in carp density and some areas of the lake are recovering. But is sounds like there are still lots to remove and so the removal process continues.
Juat had a look at the Lake on Google. It is amazing to think they have that tonnage of one species in a lake body of that volume!
@@michaelinhouston9086 doubt it, unless you do it every year, carp population would be restored quickly.
Sell them to China!
Excellent video. Many states could learn from your research.
Utah Lake was our favorite summer destination back in the 1980s, I midnight water skiing on a glass Lake underneath the full moon nothing but awesome there! I hope it has recovered
In Australia we have a similar problem with carp. I know they have been 100% sucessful in Tasmania. There is a company called Charley Carp who make a great fertiliser from them.
Australia seems to be the only country that understands what a problem these fish are. Everyone else just bitches and whines about killing them.
3:55 Pioneers died because they wouldn't drink pine needle tea. Utilize your recourses. Figure out how to eat them. Watch some Russian fishing videos. Most of what they catch are Carp and Pike. Anybody in the U.S. who knows how to prepare Carp knows the quiet joke. Many times I have gone fishing, never rigged my line, and gone home with 100 pounds plus of fish. Learn how to eat carp and you'll never go hungry. Talk to someone who knows. BTW, white guy from Dutch ancestry living in Iowa, here. I've learned a lot from other cultures.
That or catfish out of the Red River.
you don't get it. they eat and interfere with the NATIVE fish. Soon they will be gone, Get it>
@@terryjp3050 You do realize that the video was produced in 2009 and the Carp are still there today right?
Do you know why they eat carp there..... because they have Jack shit for alternatives! Sorry I'm not going to chow down on carp when I could just as easily grab a walleye a the channel cat a crappie a salmon or a trout.
I don't know about carp, but Northern Pike from Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence Seaway is very tasty. I learned how to filet the pike without any bones, cook them like bass with potato flakes - very tasty, not fatty, so you don't have to worry about contamination. Pike is just like Jack Perch, and prepared the same way.
It's been almost 9 years...would love to see a follow up video.
It was later established that the people in the video were Russian and were stealing your fish😊
Almost 10 now
There's still tons of carp.
And gold fish
Money spent, CARP likely still there, this is how ecology works, not a one time fix. Make it free for everyone to fish these for food, no size limit, CARP will be under control in 1yr.
A very similar situation occured in Australia also in the 1970's with European Carp that were put into dams on Australian farms and escaped into the river systems during floods, and caused similar environmental problems and reduced biodiversity.
its as bad as it ever was here in Australia
Nov. 1, 2018---It's been 8 years since this video was released. Wonder how things are now on this lake carp wise. Spent a few years growing up as a kid in Florida and of course, we did a lot of fishing. The ones that were too small to eat got buried under bushes & trees Dad planted such as a avocado & banana.
I'm afraid to say the carp are holding their own - there's still millions in the lake.
@@rogertycholiz2218 3 years later there are still millions upon millions.
We tried this in a small Wisconsin lake 30 years ago.... it seemed like the more we culled, the more carp we'd see the following year.... unbelievable
@@sdrizathey’re like rats!
The problem my logic tells me is if this was going to be successful they either would have to annihilate them entirely or this kind of large scale carp fishing would have to be a continuous without end. The carps were introduced by a very small number of a few perhaps even just by one pregnant female and decades later it is over ran. If they don't make them extinct in this lake entirely they will continue to populate and this will be a never ending project.
Why not give a cat food canner tax incentives to build a cannery to use the catch?
heavy metal poisoning
George Foltz they tried that before. The cat food makers only want tuna. We should start a new canning business. Canned carp is really good! My friend used to can it and people came from 70 miles away just to get some! Crazy huh? We were trained not to eat carp. Why? Because back in the day the fish was raised for export. The government didn't want people to eat it so that they could create a national income bringing money into the new nation. It worked until everybody jumped on the band wagon! They soon flooded the market and everybody bailed out. Dumping their carp into the local lakes and streams. If you bleed a carp the meat goes sweet. The muddy taste goes out. They eat em in the south.
@@creamcheesewonton274 the heavy metals in carp are no worse then any other fish, especially tuna.
@@zoki.to974 I want to try this when ever I get a smoker set up.
@@nicks2581 Use big carp 10 lbs. and up the bones are bigger easier to find.
I've canned this fish and its just like canned mackeral or salmon. Also. Smoked on grill this fish , the flesh is snow white very tasty. I'm just a midwest white girl, but my husband delighted me with this. dish shortly after after after we were married. He had been a police officer for 12 years. He had quite a few surprises for me and this was one of them. I love it.
What?
We got the same issues with Lion Fish here on the Emerald Coast , Florida
A worthy project and nice ro hear people talk intelligently.
If the CARP are from a relatively clean water source, the CHINESE fish exporters will come to you and pay a premium for carp. Prices vary for species and water quality.
Boe Dayious I seen crap but carp lol
william III be safe when eating carp there like gold fish worthless
They might even build a plant in your town like they did in Illinois for the silver carp .
the problem is that there was a steel plant on the shore of the lake that ran for decades and nothing in the lake is safe to eat do to the run off from that plant
Ruben, carp and goldfish are cousins. Same with koi.
As of 2017, the removal program has seen 25 million pounds of carp taken from the lake at a cost of $4.9 million dollars. They estimate 60% of the carp population has been removed from the lake and plant life is starting to recover. Plant life gives smaller, non carp fry places to hide as they mature. If the average carp is 30 pounds, this equates to 833,000 fish harvested at a cost of $5.88 each.
Carl Keller that's the fish and wildlife for ya! Doing anything to keep their jobs! Instead of selling the fish to those countries that eat them via commercial fishing them like they do in my lake! Fish and wildlife mismanages EVERYTHING THEY LAY HANDS ON! HAVING ONE GOAL IN MIND , HOW TO CREATE PROBLEMS TO JUSTIFY THEM KEEPING A JOB!
If they put a quarter a pound bounty on them, fishermen might actually want to catch them here in the USA. In many countries in Europe, carp is THE game fish.
Ill do it for 4$ a fish.
@@biggeorgetx -In Poland a carp has limits to catch but its a king carp developed thru centuries in Monasteries ponds. King carp has only a few scales and no small bones.It's very expensive and eaten mostly at Christmas traditional dish.
@@ziggy5509 Thank you, I've learned something new.
I am a resident of Utah. I have seen some big changes in Utah Lake in the last 30 years or so… I think the carp do more harm than good!! Removing the majority of the carp will make big changes and transform Utah Lake into a good place to fish and recreate…
keep up the good work at saving a resource that is worthwhile
I live here In Utah county and I honestly love catching catching carp on a fly it’s so much fun
I grew up near Utah Lake. There was a steel plant on the east side of the lake for decades. That steel plant did more damage then any fish has.
Nirvana fallacy. Look it up n grow up.
I absolutely love the work being done here. The only problem I have been able to summarize so far, why didn't you ask me for help?
Little question, if I want to fish for carp only dose Utah Lake is still a good place to go???? Where is the golden spot would be??? Does State park is one of those spots?
Amazing to think that if these were in Europe they’d be worth a small fortune!
Different Carp.......America has Asian Carp......boney as h*ll.....tedious eating.
And all have names
Great work guys 👍🏻 we have the dirty carp here in Australia and all there good for is ruining lakes and rivers. Make the lake great again 😉
My prediction: if there are two carp left in the lake, they will come back to the same levels.
Mike!! Your a legend! So fucking funny I spit out my cereal I was laughing so hard...
True
JJ it’s a joke soiboi
@@mikehenry4743 You are truly a friggin' moron on the order of tRump itself.
Today is 10/1/2019. How is the lake doing today?
i hope you have a system after you get these carp out of the water... oet food? fish food? what did you guys do to the carcass?
There was a time when if you ate a lobster sandwich you and your daddy were poor
Lobster was used as fertiliser
Who eats lobster now ....only the rich
One day people will eat carp
lobster is like 5$ a pound not expensive
Whole europe eats carp.
Mullet from ocean sea, and not river, (muddy taste) is quite tasty, it's oily, similar to Taylor, and if you grill the mullet whole scales on, and after it's out of the grill and on the plate, just peel the charred scales skin back and sprinkle salt . . Don't adultrate the delicious taste of grilled fish with dressing sauce, you would swear you're in heaven
Read an article on the Civil War where after Sherman pilaged and burned his way through the South, a displaced Southern Lady complained that she was now forced to eat the same food as her slaves did. You know what that was? SHRIMP!
@@rarescroitoru291 Eats and breeds it for eating.
How did the carp get in there in the first place? Are they dumped goldfish? They are huge.
One thing ive noticed is ever since they started removing the Carp from Utah lake there has been more algae blooms than there has ever been .I wonder if removing the Carp has some kinda effect that has caused more algae blooms to happen
Algae blooms are lack of movement in the water and low water levels.
More likely due to ferlizers running off farms into the water.
what is the water quality like in this lake? where does the water come from? Is it from another source that the carp can return?
If from clean cool water , they can be filleted and smoked . In the 70s an old coworker would take all the carp I could shoot with my bow . Anything between 2' to 4' was his preference . He had a walk in fish smoker and must have done 200-300 pounds at a time . I must admit it was pretty tasty , and zero bones from his fillets . I think bow hunting carp was one of the funnest ways to spend a Saturday . The whole time I went carp hunting I would chop small carp in half and put it underneath my corn seeds in my garden . Corn would grow especially nice .
So it's been 8 yrs. Has the lake gotten back to where it was before the carp?
Would cat food companies be interested in buying the fresh-caught carp ?
so how is that lake now in 2023? i am in canada and we have a lake with bass that are invasive and taking over , looking for ways to deal with it before they decimate the native trout population
78% removed as of 2015, carp under control, lake recovery underway according to the website 😀
I'm so glad to hear this, I used to catch 9 pound cats there 20 years ago. It was a great place to fish. Blessings
Just think how much money the first person will make, who comes up with a way to repurpose this resource commerically! A millionaire in no time!
In Australia they make them into fertilizer Charlie Carp great on Gardens when diluted with water .Also makes great bait for fishing at sea ,salt water fish follow the oil trail to the hook
Parts of Australia that is. Trying catching a native fish in the Murray River, its impossible because of the carp levels. Australia is far from solving this problem
I have a question. I have seen a lot of these Asian Carp disposal videos now. How do you separate the carp from native species?
why stop at 75%? why not get rid of all the carp in the lake and let the native species take over!
Gun_Klub It only took a couple of carp to take over the lake in the first place.
thats exactly my point, if they let 25% of the carp stay in the lake in a couple of years it'll be full of carp again!
Because it will never happen. There are 8 major tributaries that feed the lake. In addition to that, there are side waters and canals that feed into those tributaries or the lake themselves. All of them are filled with carp. Utah Lake is the second largest natural lake and the largest freshwater natural lake in the state. The hope is that 25% will be maintained and not increased. As for the native fish, bonneville cutts cannot live in that ecosystem, however the June Sucker can and they are why this is happening. Keeping the feds out of the state to not control the management of the lake. They will be back regardless of how many are removed. Get swept over the dam from Deer Creek or they get in from the Jordan River somehow, they will come back.
6 year too get it to 25% better off to drain it and start over ha haha but that wont happen
Even germex only removes like 99% of germs
...soo thank you for your efforts and successes, good folk!...
When I was stationed Japan, I had Asian Carp and it was very good! My host who I was staying with, showed me how to fillet a Carp and remove all the bones especially the "Y" bone. Let the meat marinade in Soy Sauce, Fish Sauce and Apple Cider Vinegar. Mix 1/2 cup of flour and cornmeal, Ms. Dash All Seasoning, Some Garlic fry them up and chow down with some great beer...nothing but good!
/ how did the program fair? any idea how the lakes doing now?
With the high demand of this fish in Asia, I think it would have been a great idea to have it sold in the Asian market. It definitely could accumulate enough cash.
People in Asia eat them so it don't matter
What happen to the carp ? Is it used for feeding zoo animals or dog food?
have you attemped restocking the the suckers? stripping them of eggs and milt during the run as you would for walleye? would be interesting, not sure it's been done.
@@utahlakeauthority Is there a relationship to the past couple of years' algae infestation in mid-late summer and all this structural change in fish volumes - eg., the carp count reduction. (I live in Saratoga Springs just barely off Jordan River exits of it.)
Is there an update on the results of this? Video was posted in 2010
Follow up report? Why no processing for human consumption? Low cost protein and sold in some places much like chicken and BBQ....
It has now been 8 years since this video was posted did it work?
This is just another example of invasive species that man has let loose. Carp are non native fish and they are a problem everywhere. I am glad to see Utah working to get rid of them. When I used to fish I always threw the carp onto the bank and never returned them to the water.
roy gunter --- cook them. Give to Cambodian family down the street.
No early spring fresh ice off, Keep to eat, garden, cats. Later in season kill pop air bladder return to water let rest of fish eat.
We have the same problem in Florida with a fish called a bowfin or a snake head.
I also throw them away from the water. Next day, they are gone, raccoons think they taste great.
D Augusto snakeheads probably walked back into the water when you left lol
No, I had tossed them into some sticks. They crawl, but don't climb over 2 inch sticks. They were there later, dehydrated, and then gone, long after they were dead..
We love carp. I go to Long John Silver's and get a Carp Fish basket every other day!
YUM YUM Those carp are good.
Keep up the good work.... You can also grind up carp and put them in cans labeled "Cat Food".
The Czech's have a way of "jellying" the carp so the bones melt inside the fish. It's some kind of Xmas specialty as well in Eastern Europe.
Different Carp .....America has Asian Carp......a lot of Europes Carp were actually bred for eating......less bones.
Would you be willing to ship a bunch of them to California, for sale and food consumption??
Distribute as food instead of food stamps
Janet Lee Fish Patties
Excellent idea. Just label it catfish which is a dirtier fish than carp.
you dont want to eat anything out of that lake, Geneva Steel used it as a dumping ground for years before they went out of business
Better yet, Tom, you and other posters with similar comments could eat the delicious carp while giving the equivalent $$ you'd spend on the food normally to the families that need medical assistance.
@B Dog ... Why wouldn't you?
Now after 10 years from removing carps, how is Utah lake now?
I would think the cat food companies would be lining up for this stuff.
Dude that Is a good idea, cat n dog food made cheap.
@@juliosdiy3206 Pigs too, they will eat anything.. even plastic
Why and how did the carp get there in the first place ?
I wish someone would tell us where regular fisherman can dump the carp. Where are the processing plants? That information would help those that bowfish and anglers that catch carp
blackfox3737 you kill the fish and toss it to the side
If you have a compost pile they do wonders for the biometric spectrum after broken down by microbes.
I'd say just toss it into the local bushes protected area so local wild animals can eat it. But if you have more than a few I'd just toss them into the trash. Unless you eat them.
I hate to just kill them like that but they're an invasive species and it would be irresponsible to throw them back.
I would be surprised if a regular fisherman could catch enough carp to cause major problems by leaving them on shore for other critters to feed on. You could bury them in your garden or flower plot as fertilizer also.
Is this the same kind of fish that jump out when you turn your boat engine on? If so, us that to your advantage. Since that's the only fish that does that. Have a systems that collects the first in air
We have a huge problem in Australia in our rivers and lakes with these carp
Here in Oz we are using them for animal supplements, aquaculture pellets, fertilisers, fish leather, and increasingly, to put on the table.
@@garfieldnotthecat5777 "and increasingly, to put on the table". WHAT!, I'm in my 60's and have NEVER known anybody who eats Carp in Australia. Some Poms quite like them, But there are not that many of them. You certainly don't see it much for sale.
@@MOREENGINEERING , i'm also in my 60's "and have NEVER known anybody to eat Carp in Australia". Especially here in Perth where we don't have the problem. However, I am sure I saw a program on tv whereby chefs over east were experimenting with putting them on the table. Apparently the chef and presenter reckoned it tasted alright. Also they were presenting Australian salmon for the table. That I have eaten, and it's bloody yummy when looked after, i.e. put in ice slurry after bleeding and then deep fried in batter.
okay this video was 10 years ago ... so hows the lake doing these days?
for me as a carp fisher, this looks like dream waters... if you cant change whats been done, make the best out of it. you should make big tourism with carp fishing for freaks from england, germany, netherland and the EU in general. carp fishing is a big industry here like bass fishing in america.
they fight pretty good too, and are good eating..and can get very big. good gamefish for sure...in Korea carp are widely targetted and always eaten, and can be expensive in restaurants.
Hans, one of the reasons Carp fishing is so popular in western europe, is that most other freshwater game fish have been pretty much wiped out...A good example on how not to manage fisheries. Russia, on the other hand, is a completely different story.
@@BAlvn-yr6ej Yes, carp are extremely popular in Asia, & have been for thousands (seriously) of years.
That is the best fighting freshwater fish I love catching carp especially on light tackle
The Freaks,from England pay upwards of £2000 a year to fish a lake with good carp in them .buisness opertunity I think .
So what has happened since the video was posted?
Hey
The big cats at the zoo's love fish! 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 It's free food
For alot of other animals
And the people this food
Could feed !!
Flash Frozen and shipping in the same day
In a pot that night !
It's a good start !
Polar bears need fish also asap
Africa
Got alot of big cats
Food drops from the air
Frozen fish can fly!🤓
jesus m solis jr - Very good idea.
How do you figure it is free? Looks ridiculously expensive to me
Randall Parker because those guys are getting $10/hr.
Yeah the millions and millions it will cost to process it for that is free...
Great idea!
I see this was done back in 2010 , Now that it has been 7 years and the program was only a 5 year program how did it turn out ? Could you do another Video on that to show it can be done ? Thanks .
Give to people who are to lazy to work..instead of food stamps give them some carp!!
Perfect! They would soon be back to work.
Samuel Quinones. Good idea.
Heave a 20 lb. Big Head at some homeless guy on the freeway ramp.
MrThang ..lmao...At least he won't starve...lol
this is the best idea yet,5 carp a week ..they will be gone in no time.
I'm not fisherman. So can someone please tell me what's wrong with Carp?
These guys would have a vested interest in the fertiliser processing business for the carp thats why they don't want to eliminate the fish completely.
its a shame, it should be eaten, by who or whatever.
@@bosesebi6685 Nobody wants to eat that garbage. Blach! 😝
I wonder what the status of this project is as of 2018 Wednesday 26 December ????
All they had to do is bring in the mungs and they would have it cleared out in no time...
jimforjzs777 we already brought in the hmongs, there are towns in Central Wisconsin and other places that used to be beautiful cities and now they have gangs and crime.
How did the carp get in there in the 1st place or were they naturally there?
Introduced by the US government in the late 1800 as a food source
Why not sell permits, let anglers--even without a license, take carp? Make money for the state, let fisherman catch a lot of fish. No, let's use the state budget, go out an net em. Come to think of it, why not let commercial fisherman take them in nets? You say take 75 Percent? Ok, AFTER you do that, what stops them form coming back in droves? This was made in 2010, where are we today, how has it all worked out?
do they just reproduce faster and at greater amount than other species of fish?
They grow very big (up to 50 pounds) and lay a lot of eggs. They will vacuum up the eggs of other fish, too.
Considering how polluted most lake and river water is in China even in comparison to somewhat dirty water in the USA, they could probably sell at a premium all the carp in China or somewhere in Asia as organically raised or wild caught carp.
Carp can withstand a 100 degree temperature range and can breathe air. There's really nowhere a carp can't live as long as it's got water.
@@jw8687 j6
Its been 9 years since this video, so how is the lake doing?
You will never remove all the carp ! They will only create a cottage industry of making fertilizer. Impossible to remove
Is there any contamination due to the red algae since I have no clue how red algae works with aquatic life?
Algae bloom
Convince the Chinese that Utah Carp is a delicacy and they will import them until the last one is gone.
Carp are delicious to eat from fresh water so why aren't they filleted, canned or frozen for human consumption?
And just who bought the carp to US waters. Hold on yes that's right the all knowing ever smarter the you U.S Department of wildlife and fishery.
They will NEVER admit that...as they gladly take your money.
Carp were introduced by settlers in the 1800s.
@@tinknal6449 true.
Just like kudzu to the South. Introduced disease to the elms. So on and so forth.
@@Mike-xi4zt carp were brought in as a food source in the 1800's in california. They were stocked in ponds on fish farms to be raised and sold as food to settlers and immigrants who had eaten carp in europe. First ones came from germany I believe, along with the brown trout and the ringneck pheasant for the same reason. It was a business venture that went wrong when the california state decided that it should be a food for everyone (shocking right?) and started stocking them in all the bodies of water. Well, other states east of there wanted carp too so the US gov transported them to their areas and did the same thing. Eventually they just spread everywhere and took over. Now they are naturalized almost everywhere in the US.
How about feeding people? Carp is a food fish all over the world. I can't believe the fish are not being used as human food.
Sell them to overseas market they fetch nice high prices over there and stimulate the local economy’s
what do you do with the carp?
they make greate fertalizer. your garden will grow like crazy
Where is Utah Lake...is it along 50?
In Australia,carp is processed to become fertiliser.
idiots
@@bosesebi6685 They breed like flies and stir up the river bottoms to lay tens of thousands of eggs. They drive out all of the native species and foul the waterways. Some idiot thought it would be a good idea to release them into our river systems. We have the European variety and they are just as invasive as the Asian variety and just as unpalatable . 🥵🇦🇺👍😷😷😷
@@miksal26 so you just go ahead and try to kill them all and dump the bodies, like water buffalo, camels and other living things. F that, you should be happy that in your god forsaken land with nothing but poisonus animals and saltwater crocks, you are getting something else.
Have there been any positive changes in biodiversity in the lake? Have any of the native plant and animal species returned or increased in numbers?
Yes. Aquatic vegetation is starting to grow again. This gives the june sucker smolt a place to be protected from predators and grow.
Too bad they can't get all the Asian carp out of the Illinois river, there are millions of them!
Zoos all around the world can use every pound of that un desired nautral resource.... Australia zoo gator farms etc. Im sure these people putting in that work would greatly appreciate to see their hard labor improve the world in more than one way
Give to to soup Kitchens
They are gross
@@tylerfish6206 they aren't. learn how to cook , and properly clean them, and they're fine.
They aren’t good fish to eat
@@LuxwaDZN the best cooks in world would rather not
Or the polar bears
Where do I sign up to help stop this invasion. And how do we find a cost effective way to absorb cost
Find a good way to cook them! then market them in stores and restorant encourage humans to eat them...i ate somme it aint bad...dont put any limit on them .ITS A FISH WE HEAT FISH...PUT THEM IN A MEAT GRINDER ..MAKE FISH BALLS COOK THEM THEY TASTE GREAT? EVEN A FISH BURGER SHOULD TASTE GOOD.
So how has it turned out nearly 9 years later ?
catching carp is fun. they put up a good fight
Like catching an old tire.
Sometimes, even more so than a largemouth bass!
@@MrOhgoodgolly Stick to catching your old tires...
What do they plan to do with the 20% that is left behind.
We have Carp here in Australia 😔😔 I don’t eat Carp, tilapia, catfish, Eels, I don’t think they’re nice .. geez they hard to get rid off 😱😱😱
Australia has one of the worst invasive species problem on the planet.
It would be fun to be a hunter; open season on all sorts of stuff. I think it's always open season here for coyotes; they crossed the Mississippi on some of the bridges so now we have them in the east.
Fon, as it should be.
Jenny Lee same in New Zealand.
Huge fines if caught with Carp or Koi.
And we have a problem with some immigrants flouting the law and selling Koi. Big fines for them.
Kim from New Zealand
The state of Florida is a mess with released parrots, aquarium fish and maybe worst, the constrictors who seem to just love the Evergreen swamp.
The lion fish is a tiny fish in aquariums and very pretty but when released they grow and eat every thing that the native species need to survive. Spear gun divers can make a living selling them to local restaurants because apparently they are delicious.
Most sea critters eat dead things. A dead fish tastes pretty good after it's run through a crab.
Logan river and down in the Bear Valley was full of carp in the 70's. I wonder if they have moved up river?
Carp fish also good and ediable fish why you try to make fertilijer🙄🙄🙄🙄
They are good but so many small bones
Bravo men! I wish I could give you two thumbs up
Funny? having read the comments in most parts of the world it seems carp are a major problem, yet here in the UK we do not see them as a problem and there are multiple places where people pay to fish, to catch carp, the turnover for angling here (UK) runs into the millions and by far angling is the most popular sport, as for owners who own carp fisheries they pay thousands to re stock there lakes and looking at some of the fish in the video they looked quite large and to buy one here would set you back 100/500 £ and even more for larger fish.
`they are confined to ponds so they are not a problem ...
Carp are a warm water species. The UK is very high on the latitude arena which makes the water cold. Of course they aren't going to be a problem. The carp in Bear Lake Utah are there, but they are under control because the water is too cold to support an over abundance of carp.
lord cu mopton , no they are not confined to ponds/lakes, here in the UK most of our main rivers have a healthy stocks as well.
Paul, you can't argue with them, they don't do facts :). Utah lake is hyper-eutrophic, the more natural species have struggled with the pollution and algae blooms whilst the carp have survived as they tolerate lower oxygen levels. They can remove every single carp if they want, it still wont bring back there bass and trout as the water itself is gubbed! The fact that Utah has an almost identical climate to southern UK also seems to not register with them.
As the saying goes, “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” Carp keep the turbidity of the lake high by constantly grazing the plant life. This makes it hard for the June sucker to exist. Another fact, since you love facts so much, carp amount to 90% of the lakes biomass. BTW, there are a couple of different types of bass in Utah Lake.
So many older fellows doing the heavy lifting. That's amazing to me.