Grass Carp caught in Grand River this week

[Eli]

What bothers me the most isn't that there was a grass carp caught in our water, it's the fact that someone would do something so ignorant as to intentionally release a non-native fish into the river.

I've seen it here. A family ritualistically releasing a bucket full of live tilapia into the Ottawa River, one by one, in broad friggen day light. I have it all on video. I've since seen Tilapia swiming in the Rideau River as well and was told by an MNR officer that the local storm ponds get full of tilapia in the summer.

Tilapia can't survive our winter. That grass carp happened to be sterile. The grass carp caught near Long Sault two springs ago was killed on the spot. The point is, next time we might not be so lucky! Next time it might bucket of fully furtile silver carp. Go on youtube and see what that will look like a few years later.

I piss on polical correctness so I'll go ahead and say this: fresh-of-the boat Chinese immigrants are the ones responsible for these fish being here. What happened in the States with the silver and bighead carp is a different story all together, but the INDIVIDUALS here in Canada who are importing (illegally), selling (illegally), and releasing (illegally) live fish into our water are all newcomer Chinese.
This isn't meant as a slant against anyone one who is of Chinese descent, but the sooner the community recognizes this as a problem, the sooner it can be addressed.