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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: D-Rock425 on February 10, 2014, 11:52:11 AM

Title: fish id
Post by: D-Rock425 on February 10, 2014, 11:52:11 AM: Can someone tell me what type of fish this is. I stop by the Lacey cabelas yesterday with the wife and kids and they had these in their aquarium. I have no idea what exactly they are.
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Post by: h20hunter on February 10, 2014, 12:16:36 PM: Yeah....no idea.
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Post by: Ebell on February 10, 2014, 12:21:49 PM: They look like Grass Carp to me. Not sure why they are at Cabelas though.
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Post by: LndShrk on February 10, 2014, 12:23:08 PM: :yeah:
Grass Carp
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Post by: D-Rock425 on February 10, 2014, 12:26:14 PM: I thought I remember my grandfather referring to a fish like this as a chub :dunno: when I was a kid.
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Post by: vandeman17 on February 10, 2014, 12:26:54 PM: maybe they are the type of fish that are used to clean up the tanks? :dunno:
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Post by: _TONY_ on February 10, 2014, 07:10:12 PM: Grass carp...
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Post by: jeepster on February 10, 2014, 07:53:55 PM: Quote from: _TONY_ on February 10, 2014, 07:10:12 PM
Grass carp...

Ain't those the fish they's are havin all dem problems with down in the southern states?
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Post by: bracer40 on February 10, 2014, 08:01:39 PM: This is from the WA State Dept of Ecology site:

The grass carp, also known as the white amur, is a vegetarian fish native to the Amur River in Asia. Because this fish feeds on aquatic plants, it can be used as a biological tool to control nuisance aquatic plant growth.

In some situations, sterile grass carp may be permitted for introduction into Washington waters. Permits are most readily obtained if the lake or pond is privately owned, has no inlet or outlet, and is fairly small. The objective of using grass carp to control aquatic plant growth is to end up with a lake that has about 20 to 40 percent plant cover, not a lake devoid of plants. In practice in Washington, grass carp often fail to control the plants or all the submersed plants are eliminated from the waterbody.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife determines the appropriate stocking rate for each waterbody when they issue the grass carp stocking permit. Stocking rates for Washington lakes generally range from 9 up-to 25 eight- to eleven-inch fish per vegetated acre. This number will depend on the amount and type of plants in the lake as well as spring and summer water temperatures. However, Fish and Wildlife generally err on the side of stocking the least amount of grass carp as possible. To prevent stocked grass carp from migrating out of the lake and into streams and rivers, all inlets and outlets to the pond or lake must be screened. For this reason, residents on waterbodies that support a salmon or steelhead run are rarely allowed to stock grass carp into these systems.
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Post by: deltaops on February 11, 2014, 01:33:16 PM: I think I need to look into these Carp for our small lake. We have no outlet or inlet. The aquatics are out of control.