Silver Asian Carp Breaks Teen's Jaw: How Do We Solve The Flying Fish Problem?
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 uncon...
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. (more)
"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. (more)
Start Fishing Them All
ewwwwwwwwwwwwww i hate fishOther
Is this a joke? et's say you had to move because your company transferred you. Someone decides to go swimming in your pool. You smack him in the head and people start talking about the intruder's rights?Other
get a shotgun, throw bread crumbs in the air, shootOther
moderated...Start Fishing Them All
a no limit carp catching contest/wet t-shirt contest will draw all the sportsmen one would need to empty that lake out.Other
stop making there homes dirty and maybe they will stop trying to get out of the flith Clean waterOther
Ban all fish from rivers people go near. I swear this would happen or someone would pass a law you must wear a helmet to fish. overprotective parents.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.
Wear Helmet Whenever Near The Lake
Dang fool!! Anyone who goes near water without a helmet is just asking for trouble. When I was a kid we could bob for blue gills until the street lights came on, but times are different... kids should always have to wear a helmet in the water now.Find An Alternative Way To Clean Water And Get Rid of the Fish
When will we learn? Don't fool with Mother Nature. They brought in English Sparrows....they brought in kudzu...they bring in Silver Asian Carp. We do not seem to ever ever learn from our foolish mistakes. Now we are over run with sparrows, kudzu and silver asian carp! What else???Other
Stop screwing around with Mother Nature.Other
Teach the fish how to walk. (or maybe the humans can find a different spot to do their tubing and such since the lake is the fish's home)Start Fishing Them All
Fish them. Good market.Start Fishing Them All
yup time to go fly fishing..... lawlStart Fishing Them All
This means war!Wear Helmet Whenever Near The Lake
When nature fights back! It's a sonofabitch...