Angry Old ManFeb 3, 2023
The Conversation AU + NZ

🐟 Carp now account for up to 90% of live fish mass in some rivers.

📸 Another photo from the field for #PhotoMonday.

This was taken by author and researcher, Katie Doyle.

Katie and colleagues wrote this article weighing up the risks and benefits of the controversial proposition to release carp herpes virus to address this 👇 :

#research #conservation #sustainability #environment #science #ecology #australia #academicmastodon #fish #carp

🔗 :
https://theconversation.com/exploding-carp-numbers-are-like-a-house-of-horrors-for-our-rivers-is-it-time-to-unleash-carp-herpes-198067

Exploding carp numbers are 'like a house of horrors' for our rivers. Is it time to unleash carp herpes?

Carp can make riverbeds look like golf balls – denuded and dimpled, devoid of any habitat. Releasing carp herpes virus is a controversial proposition, so let’s weigh up the risks and benefits.

The Conversation
Jan 23, 2023 at 5:25amWeb
Show threadDoctorBohemiangirlJan 23, 2023
@theconversationau Yeah, why not make them suffer? 🙄
Show threadSriram RamkrishnaJan 24, 2023
@theconversationau we really are a disgusting species that we're willing to spread sexual disease to another species to control them.
Show threadStacey CampbellJan 25, 2023

@theconversationau Back in the 70s, when I was a young bloke, I went fishing in the Ovens River near Wangaratta, and I guess carp had just turned up in numbers, much to the dismay of everyone.

I caught a big pile of carp. Brought them home, scaled and gutted them, cooked them in the oven, put them in what mum called the vitamizer (blender here in the US), made patties out of that, cooked them a bit longer, then gave them to the dog.

The dog loved those carp-burgers!