CARP_NSW can be returned to the water

[Bomber2012]

All sounds great but those “scientists “ type worry me, they have stuffed up our flora and fauna a number of times with their introduction and meddling in species thinking they know what they are doing
Will the rivers turn sour with the huge numbers of dead carp in them?

Good point @Albynsw , cane toad was a disaster
IF ????? We can irradicate carp without other species suffering it would be fantastic .
But if it takes killing other fish to do it I would take a punt as we could re stock rivers , lakes with native species .
Australia is not the only country that has the carp curse but we could become the first country to totally irradicate them .

 

[Toddyh]

All sounds great but those “scientists “ type worry me, they have stuffed up our flora and fauna a number of times with their introduction and meddling in species thinking they know what they are doing
Will the rivers turn sour with the huge numbers of dead carp in them?

That's actually what they're studying now. How many carp they can kill in a certain water volume without impacting the water quality.

 

[CruiserAd]

Great crab bait. The blue swimmers seem to love the scent even though its a fresh water fish.

 

[smitty_r51]

Great crab bait. The blue swimmers seem to love the scent even though its a fresh water fish.

Yeah we would always go the lake at milang the week before we went crabbing at ardrossan...always guaranteed a feed with that as bait

 

[Chatty]

All sounds great but those “scientists “ type worry me, they have stuffed up our flora and fauna a number of times with their introduction and meddling in species thinking they know what they are doing
Will the rivers turn sour with the huge numbers of dead carp in them?

Apparently one of the things that has been holding up release of the herpes had been planning on how to deal with all the dead carp rotting and taking all the oxygen out of the water, thereby killing everything else in the river.

 

[Albynsw]

Apparently one of the things that has been holding up release of the herpes had been planning on how to deal with all the dead carp rotting and taking all the oxygen out of the water, thereby killing everything else in the river.

That was the initial thought I had as an issue
Hopefully they can sort it out and then see if they can give cane toads herpes as well

 

[ULost2]

Apparently one of the things that has been holding up release of the herpes had been planning on how to deal with all the dead carp rotting and taking all the oxygen out of the water, thereby killing everything else in the river.

there was a bit on tele about that a couple of days ago -- likely ABC
or maybe I was thinking about this
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-...rogram-could-cause-pollution-problems/7374658

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

A bit of recent carp on fly video footage I put together. Might all come to an end when the carp virus is released?

 

[McGinnis]

All sounds great but those “scientists “ type worry me, they have stuffed up our flora and fauna a number of times with their introduction and meddling in species thinking they know what they are doing
Will the rivers turn sour with the huge numbers of dead carp in them?

It's more fair to blame politicians, beaurocrats and industry lobbyists than scientists.

 

[Albynsw]

It's more fair to blame politicians, beaurocrats and industry lobbyists than scientists.

Didn’t the pollies rely on the CSIRO scientists to advise them of these things ? They got it wrong

 

[McGinnis]

Speaking from experience, they "ask for advice" and ignore it completely.

 

[phs]

Didn’t the pollies rely on the CSIRO scientists to advise them of these things ? They got it wrong

Yeah agree with McGinnis they get advice and then do what ever they want anyway

not to say this is the case with the carp as I haven’t heard any supporting information