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We have all seen the videos of these jumping carp fleeing boats - an obvious evolutionary predation evasion. At the rate they are spreading this is a losing rac
by aurizon 4y ago
We have all seen the videos of these jumping carp fleeing boats - an obvious evolutionary predation evasion.
At the rate they are spreading this is a losing race - unless a specific toxin/predator can be found that will kill only these carp.
It seems to me that a mechanical carp harvester that has flat extended flats on each side that are covered by a moving rubber mat like a supermarket checkout line that brings whatever leaps on moves to the boat and is dumped into a holding tank. They would ne to be adjusted for width in case of rivers. A float at the ends will prevent a huge load from pulling one side down.
Such a harvester could go back and forth across lakes/rivers/shores to mechanically harvest these carp. They can be used for catfood, fertilizer etc.
Carp are prolific egg layers, so this would need to be done prior to the spawning time and repeated again and again as the carp are killed and new ones grow - at some point you would be able to exploit this leaping reflex to the disadvantage of the carp. EDIT giantg2 commented that this could lead to an evolutionary fork to non jumping fish = true, but along with other elimination processes in parallel it would take time to select - enough time??
- giantg2 4y agoUntil you're left with the individuals that are less prone to that reflex, then you'll need a completely different approach.