Heheh. Seriously, its important to note that the reason the Grass Carp
(or Eurasian Carp, or whatever you feel like calling it) is invasive is
not a lack of predators. It has no more or less predators than any other
large fish. The difference is that carp produce -a lot- more eggs than
many of our natives, and the fish itself is disruptive to the habitat,
effectively lowering the number of viable offspring produced by natives in
the area. We don't have many natives that muck up the bottom like the
grass carp. About the only things that come to mind are a few of the
larger catfish, adn even they are comparatively clean.
JW.
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Todd Crail wrote:
> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:13:59 -0400
> From: Todd Crail <farmertodd_at_buckeye-express.com>
> Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- News - Mysterious Frog Eggs Found in Connecticut
>
> I was drawing the same picture in my head (an adult predator), but of
> course, you're right Josh :)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Moontanman_at_aol.com>
> To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 4:32 PM
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- News - Mysterious Frog Eggs Found in Connecticut
>
>
> > In a message dated 10/2/03 10:42:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jlw_at_dune.net
> > writes:
> >
> > > Carp don't have predators? Interesting....
> >
> > I was thinking of the adults, the wels catfish eats the adults. It is
> often
> > fished for by using adult carp as bait. too bad the alligator gar doesn't
> live
> > everywhere the carp does. Real alligators eat them too.
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