Peoria Carp Hunters 2 – The Invasive VS The Inventive

You might recall the when we posted the original Peoria Carp Hunters video. Well Zachary Hoffman himself emailed me to say they’ve just released the sequel! I hope you brought a clean pair of underwear with you this morning because you’re about to ____ your ____. You’ve been warned!

Check out the Peoria Carp Hunters official website for more info.

Pacu Caught in Grand River, Michigan

A Pacu was recently caught in the Grand River in Michigan by Isa DeVos. This is likely another example of an aquarium owner releasing his non-native fish in to the local waters and not a sign that we’re being invaded by another invasive species.

Pacu, a vegetarian relative of the piranha, can grow very large over their life span (up to 60lbs!) and easily out grow even a large aquarium. Many fish owners don’t consider how large their pets can grow, or even how long the can live for. I’m sure this owner thought they were doing the human thing by releasing them, but in fact it’s the opposite as they’re now endangering native species.

You may also recall an earlier post about Adam Eibling’s “impossible catch” of a 5lb Pacu in Ohio.

Peoria Carp Hunters- Gladiators on Water Skis

There are many ways that the USA is dealing with the Asian Carp invasion, there’s the electric fences (that may have already failed), a campaign to get people to eat them by calling them “Kentuky Tuna“, even extreme aerial bow fishing groups, but none of these ideas are as awesome as this one from the Peoria Carp Hunters! Trailer is up first, full length cuts after the break!

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Life Science Investigates: Attack of the Invasive Asian Carp

Life Science Investigations (WVIZ/PBS/Ideastream) has put together a phenomenal multi-part investigation on the invasive asian carp threatening the great lakes. If you can’t spend the time watching them on right now I highly suggest downloading them to your phone or ipod to watch later, or even watch them in a background tab with the audio on.

Seriously, go watch it.

Hump Day Caption Contest

via Heartland Illinois

They Came From The Canal!

Environmentalism might seem pretty boring, but life is what you make of it. If you really want people to start taking the environment seriously sometimes those people need a little creative kick in the pants to jailbreak their thought processes into reality. This poster from Earth Day 2010 created by students at the University of Chicago catches your eye as a 1950′s style horror poster, but instead makes a commentary both about the dangers of the asian carp, but also the hysteria surrounding their possible spread to the great lakes.

“We wanted it to be fun. Environmentalism can be all gloom and doom…and sometimes our students too…”

…And that’s certainly true. Admittedly, we greenies can be at times…un-fun. And, U of C is not exactly considered a party school…

“We were looking to engage in a different way. The hysteria over the carp, while hundreds of other invasive species threaten the Great Lakes, can sometimes feel like one of those 1950’s movies…”

via NRDC