04-23-2013, 10:54 PM
The carp mostly go to mink food and maybe some to fertilizer. Even fertilizer is a responsible and ethical use in my opinion..
Grilling them up isn't an option as they have too high of pcb levels.
Loy used to fish for them to sell to the Asian markets for food until they were listed with the high pcb levels. Now they have to be used for animal feed or fertilizer. Live transplant isn't very realistic.
What pond is large enough to put the numbers of carp that they catch in one netting? 23,000lbs are caught a day. There aren't even enough fish trucks available to move them live anywhere.
5 million pounds a year is too many carp to put in any other place.
If you come up with a reasonable solution, I hope you let them know, as I am sure they would like to put them to more use also. Until then......
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Grilling them up isn't an option as they have too high of pcb levels.
Loy used to fish for them to sell to the Asian markets for food until they were listed with the high pcb levels. Now they have to be used for animal feed or fertilizer. Live transplant isn't very realistic.
What pond is large enough to put the numbers of carp that they catch in one netting? 23,000lbs are caught a day. There aren't even enough fish trucks available to move them live anywhere.
5 million pounds a year is too many carp to put in any other place.
If you come up with a reasonable solution, I hope you let them know, as I am sure they would like to put them to more use also. Until then......
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