Not all Grass Carp hit the news

[Eli]

OldTimer, I'd be a lot more sympathetic to your point of view if the same government agencies surrounding the Great Lakes who are now condemning grass carp, weren't at the same time all smiles and laughter when it came to other exotics which they are very much in bed with.
How is a grass carp any less native from a brown trout?
Years and years of stocking coho and chinook salmon, brown and rainbow trout...all to the detriment of who? Native Atlantic Salmon and lake-run brook trout the size of phone books (a real lost treasure).

I'm not "promoting" grass carp in the Great Lakes. I'm saying that it's not all doom and gloom if they are here.

I'm sure the DFO will be all too happy to have another voiceless scapegoat to blame for their own incompetent mismanagement of fisheries. Don't you know the double-crested cormorant eats ALL the small fish and big fish starve and that's why there are so few big fish left...? It's not that industrial farming, dredging, draining and damming is changing the chemical composition of watersheds, it's the bloody cormorants..err...grass carp.