Deseret News | Utah Lake's excess carp become mink food, compost

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Utah Lake's excess carp become mink food, compost

Mark | 10:25 a.m. March 14, 2009

Simply have the legislature change the name legally from carp to Utah Catfish.....then charge $12 a pound for them.

Collect the eggs and sell them as Rocky Mountain Cavier.

Simple.

hey | 10:42 a.m. March 14, 2009

send them to the midwest ..there are actually millionaires , who have fish makets and restarants there....way to go army-corp or engineers for introducing this species way back when ...killed off all the indegenious species , but once again responsibilty was never accepted by one of the poorest performance in wildlife history.

KOY | 10:43 a.m. March 14, 2009

This is an interesting story I have been following for years. I would like to see some pictures of the netting operation and the fish. I would also like to know how big the biggest fish are they are catching of all species. As one who has fished in the lake, this would be fun to get more info on.
Also this may mean less dead carp floating on the surface when I take my kids boating. I get a kick out of pulling our tubes across the dead carp and watching my girls freak out.

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Rudy | 10:46 a.m. March 14, 2009

DWR should simply declare them a "game fish", like they did the yellow Perch. Put a limit on them and people will flock to Utah Lake to catch them. Just like Willard Bay, Mantua, and Deer Creek.

Reply to Koy | 11:01 a.m. March 14, 2009

Pics at utlake.com

carp | 12:13 p.m. March 14, 2009

When I was a young boy we would use bows and arrows on all of the carp in the streams that led into Utah Lake. I hope no one is shocked at the size of these fish... there have been some mighty big ones hit by an arrow.

Of course, one time the arrow got stuck half way through a monster of one and then we had to use dynamite. But that's another true story.

Rob | 1:24 p.m. March 14, 2009

Lets not be too hasty the carp are valuable fish and they should not be destroyed. We may later put them on the endangered list an how terrible.

John Charity Spring | 6:13 p.m. March 14, 2009

Rudy makes a good point. This carp problem is a direct result of DWR's failure to preserve the lake in the state it was when the pioneers arrived. The introduction of carp into Utah's waters violates every principle the pioneer's stood for. If we are to return Utah's waters to recreational greatness, e must return them to the condition they were in when this State was founded.

@ John Charity Spring... | 11:47 a.m. March 15, 2009

Say what? The carp problem is a direct result of early pioneers importing carp and putting them in their mill ponds... which flooded allowing the carp to enter Utah's waterways...

It was the pioneers that started the problem...

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