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Silver Asian Carp Breaks Teen's Jaw: How Do We Solve The Flying Fish Problem?
Peter Griffin September 08, 2008 18:35:26
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15-year-old Seth Russell of Crossett, was cruising Lake Chicot on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asian carp flew from the water and smacked him in the face. Seth was knocked unconscious leaving him with severe injuries.
"He doesn't remember anything at all," the boy's mother, Linda Russell, said last week. "He was laughing, and the next thing he remembers, he is waking in a hospital."
The teen had oral surgery to put his teeth back together. He's not the only one who's has a run-in with the "flying" Silver Asian carp.
"They do not fly, but they are quite good jumpers," said Carole Engle, director of aquaculture and the fisheries center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. "Over the past year, we have had some calls about fish jumping and causing injuries on Lake Chicot.
"Their jumping behavior is a problem, and their population appears to be growing there," Engle said.
Silver Asian carp were first imported to the United States in the 1970s. Catfish farmers brought them here to remove algae and other suspended matter from their ponds. The Environmental Protection Agency started a program allowing cities to use the fish to help clean the water in sewer treatment plant ponds.
"He doesn't remember anything at all," the boy's mother, Linda Russell, said last week. "He was laughing, and the next thing he remembers, he is waking in a hospital."
The teen had oral surgery to put his teeth back together. He's not the only one who's has a run-in with the "flying" Silver Asian carp.
"They do not fly, but they are quite good jumpers," said Carole Engle, director of aquaculture and the fisheries center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. "Over the past year, we have had some calls about fish jumping and causing injuries on Lake Chicot.
"Their jumping behavior is a problem, and their population appears to be growing there," Engle said.
Silver Asian carp were first imported to the United States in the 1970s. Catfish farmers brought them here to remove algae and other suspended matter from their ponds. The Environmental Protection Agency started a program allowing cities to use the fish to help clean the water in sewer treatment plant ponds.
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when i was a kid...and im talking 15 years ago. so its not like ages. i never HAD to wear any protective gear while riding a bike or skateboarding... did i fall down? YEP. did i cry? yep. did i get back up and go about my business? YEP YEP YEP. as carlin put it best "its the pussification of the children. we are making them weak" they'll be lower and lower on that food chain and as we all know it is survival of the fittest. the weak die out and become extinct.
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