Carp killed by virus in Chatauqa Lake...
I hear that every carp in the lake died because of a virus. Anyone know if this is true? (I'm speaking of the lake in western New York State)....It may spelled wrong in the above.
No other species of fish were affected according to what I heard.
Ol' Bill
Wonder if it's the bird virus mutating?
I'm not sure if they all died but most of them did. It apparently had something to do with bottom feeding fish. I saw a lot of dead bullhead on the streams around here as well.
Pretty close on the spelling.lol.
The carp kill on Chautauqua Lake happened approximately 1 year ago. Although a lot of carp died, it certainly was not all of them by any means.
Hey Folks,
About a year ago, approx 75,000 grass
carp went belly up here on Lake Moultrie
in SC. Same deal! Amazing how much
clearer our water has been.*G* Warm regards, Jim
And they never did catch you, did they Jim?
What was it, rotenone in the doughballs?
Ed
Wouldn't the bird flu virus only attack flying fish?
Of what I'm posting here is what I perceived from a conversation with our Fish & Wildflower folks here in North Carolina ... they (the DNR people), said that when there is too many fish populating an area (like a lake or pond or river), there is a natural occurrence that will produce a virus to kill off the excess. At the time we were experiencing a big fish kill on some of our coastal rivers and this, of course, turned out to be some our big corporate hog farms that were dumping excess run-offs from the holding ponds into creeks that emptied into the rivers.
Dale
Hey Ed,
No, not me buddy, but I applaud the
change in the lake. Yesterday, I took
a reporter and her photographer out for
a full day of kayaking on the North Shore
of Lake Moultrie for an article on our
paddle trails. I have NEVER seen the water
clearer since the initial introduction of
the grass carp and I was much encouraged
by the reappearance of grasses in some of
the areas that used to provide excellent
bass habitat. I'm convinced that from
time to time Mother Nature does her best to
undo some of the stupid mistakes of man.*G*
Warm regards, Jim
too bad that virus can't kill of those Asian carp that are working their way up Ole Miss towards the lakes.
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