Blue Catfish Slot-Ban

[trkyslyr]

Somebody would have to man the wheel while in operation unless it discharged into some kind of containment tank.

[krank]

Just have to have some one watch the containment tank.....The more I think about it the better it would work. Problem with the Missouri is that it would fill up with refridgerators,tires,dead bodies and volkswagons and various types of trash quickly.

[silverfox]

Jun 7, 2018 14:23:21 GMT -6 krank said:

Just have to have some one watch the containment tank.....The more I think about it the better it would work. Problem with the Missouri is that it would fill up with refridgerators,tires,dead bodies and volkswagons and various types of trash quickly.

Ole El Kranko, your wisdom is way beyond the scope of most folks!

You are one of the few folks I know who actually sees beyond the tip of their nose and look into the future. Thanks for keeping this site alive!

Silverfox

[tjm]

Somebody needs to come up with a marketing scheme and a cool sounding Vietnamese name for them and commercial fish em til there ain't no more. People with three bathrooms will buy them whether they taste good or not, as long as the hype is high enough.

[krank]

Kind of like Tilapia? I guarantee you that will be our next invasive species. People are raising them in ponds in the USA and its only a matter of time before they get in the watershed. They are already populated in Lake Mead in Nevada.Attachment Deleted

[krank]

I watched a documentary on the Asian carp. They fear they will get into the Great Lakes and destroy the game fish population. The biologist smiled and said "Wait until people figure out they are good to eat". Sad to say there is no monetary gain in controlling the invasion so it stays out of the news.

[bigjohn]

The Asian carp has replaced the shad as the main forage for big blues and flatheads in the river. Talked to a fishery guy from the MDC and he told me that the Asian carp was the reason for the rapid growth in size for blues in our river system.
Some reading up on them I found that they are higher in Omega 3 than salmon. Some folks around here eat them and say they are good flaky meat. Not me. We use them for cut bait and the darn things are too slimy for me to even think about eating one.

[tjm]

I don't eat tilapia either but lots of folks do and pay real money for the privilege. It's all in marketing, who ate tilapia 20 years ago? Africans? Not even most Africans?

[krank]

I got a buddy that raises Tilapia in his garage. He has a raised garden bed of vegetables and a 500 gallon tank under the raised table. He feeds the tilapia catfish pellets and then pumps the crappy water into his vegetable bed and the dirt filters the water and it runs back in the fish tank. He says he has lost 100# eating veggies and tilapia. He says there is nothing in tilapia. It has no omegas in it either.

[krank]

I disagree slightly with this mime on the ten years to recover but the Asians are raising these fish in sewage. Also, like somebody said. these fish were unheard of 20 years ago.

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