Carp Samurai

This blog has kind of been meandering all over the place lately and that will continue with this blog. I found a video that, while being extremely redneck, is pretty funny.

Asian carp are probably the greatest threat to North America's freshwater rivers and lakes. Introduced in the 1980s in the American South, this invasive species quickly spread into the Mississippi River and has been making its way north ever since. Because they reproduce so fast and eat literally everything in a freshwater ecosystem, if they reach the Great Lakes (which they are close to doing) the damage to the ecosystem of the lakes will likely be devastating and permanent.

A second danger related to the Asian carp is that at the sound of a motor boat, they will jump out of the water, sometimes up to ten feet in the air. These flying fish have injured water skiers, fishers, and boaters.

Some fishermen in Illinois have decided to fight back against these ecosystem damaging fish in some pretty bizarre ways. Warning - if you don't like rednecks or have a special affinity for fishing industry destroying, invasive species - don't watch this video.