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Indianapolis Prepares For Asian Carp Invasion

Wildlife officials in Indianapolis are hoping to stop the invasive Asian Carp from getting into America’s Great Lakes by agreeing to have a 10-foot-tall, chain-linked fence intended to hold back the fish which are getting ever closer to 20% of the world’s fresh water surface.

Indiana announced their fencing plans earlier in the month but there have been a few stumbling blocks in the way of settling on a design. This was finally agreed on Tuesday and has been given a date of “later in the summer” when it will be erected.

All this has stemmed from biologists saying that they fear the insatiable carp, which have been to known to reach 4ft in length and some up to 100lbs, could reach the Great Lakes and destroy their $7billion a year fishing industry by starving out the native fish and other species that are resident in the lakes.

People are saying how the smaller carp would be able to fit through the gaps in the fencing, but Phil Bloom a spokesman for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said: “Those small fish aren’t able to battle that kind of current at their young age, so we don’t expect them to be in that area, our concern isn’t the small fish—it’s adult fish of spawning age.”

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World beating catfish!

One Tuesday afternoon in July a Missouri fisherman named Greg Bernal was out fishing with his friend Janet Momphard when he must have felt an almighty tug on the end of his line! Little did he know what he was about to reel in…

He more than likely wasn’t fishing for Carp but he certainly wouldn’t have been bothered as the bait he was using was the rather annoying Asian Carp that are taking over the US’s lakes so not only was he lending a helping hand he was setting a new record, and potentially a new world record.

Bernal had just wound in an almighty catfish weighing in at a whopping 130lbs! He has broken one record with this catch; that being the record he set 20 years earlier with a 103lbs catfish that he caught in the Mississippi river.

It took both Bernal and his pal Janet around half-an-hour to get the fish in the boat and it was at this point – they realised they had hooked into something rather special.

“We both grabbed hold of the net, and then that took us another half-hour to get him in the boat because he was so heavy,” Bernal said.

He won’t be forgetting this one for a while and like in football when they say “you’re just as good as your last game”, in fishing they say “you’re just as good as your last catch.” Says it all really doesn’t it?

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Police brand Koi Carp theft an ‘Unusual Crime’

Do you keep Koi Carp? If so then you will certainly feel for the owners of a pond in Southend-on-Sea after they had a ‘shoal’ of their Koi Carp stolen. The ‘unusual’ theft has baffled local police and according to the Southend Echo the fish were valued at around £2,000 and had been living in the pond since 1993.

PC Laura Stellon has been appealing for any information on the theft and for any witnesses to come forward and if anybody has any idea of the shoal’s whereabouts to contact Southend police station immediately .

One suspect that the police must keep in mind is of course the pesky heron! The local bird has been known to plague fish in local ponds and people have obviously become very agitated with the bird. But, as herons are a protected species they cannot be killed, so this is another plausible option the police must bear in mind when deciding straight away that the fish have been stolen.

Arguably, the fact that there was a shoal of Koi Carp stolen may indicate to a robbery as a heron, even if it was an extremely large one and particularly hungry, would struggle to cram such a numerous amount of Koi Carp in their beaks. This is why Southend police are directing their efforts towards finding human thieves who will undoubtedly be looking to cash in on the fish in the near future.

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