Posted on October 25 2006
This article about the rapid spread of carp in the U.S.’s Mississippi River basin is notable mostly for the truism stated in its first paragraphs: “‘I’ve never seen a (commercial) fisherman who can’t clear out a body of water,” said Jim Malone, whose father was an early importer of the filter-feeding bighead and silver carp that have infested waterways across the heart of the continent. ‘If you put a price tag on it, they can fish out just about anything.'” Dan Egan of the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal.