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This sounds similar to the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Ma
by Caligatio 4y ago
This sounds similar to the Great Hanoi Rat Massacre (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre) where people got paid per tail but ended up breeding more rats to get more tails.
Bison take much longer to have a calf (9.5 months + 7-8 months of nursing) and typically only have one calf per go around. Carp, on the other hand, produce about two million eggs per year. It's much easier to depopulate bison than invasive carp.
- twobitshifter 4y agohaha, they could indeed happen, but if they are as pervasive as publicized wouldn’t it take a while to get to the point where it makes more sense to breed them instead of just catching them in the wild? maybe it’s best to just give someone the job and pay them a salary? I still don’t like relying on people getting an appetite for copi as the solution.
- Caligatio 4y agoI sadly forgot where I read about it (maybe "Under a White Sky" by Elizabeth Kolbert) but the States do already pay people to mass-cull these Asian carp by the literal ton (found https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/7362/827782934 https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/7362/827782934 specifically about this point). It's crazy what extremes governments are going to try to contain these fish - to include generating an electric field in rivers that selectively kills fish over a certain size (i.e. Asian carp).