The citizen initiative to cause a vote of confidence or no confidence on Flint Mayor Dayne Walling has failed.The process makes the Mayor stronger. Community concern over public saftey in Flint continues.Mr. Mayor what is your recepie for success.
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WHEN YOU CAN’T BEAT EM EAT EM!!!!!
http://goodmorningflint.blogspot.com/2010/09/good-morning-flint-09012010.html
FRIED ASIAN CARP
2 pounds of Asian carp fillets cut into strips
Deep fryer with oil heated to 375° - 400° F
Commercial frying coating (dry)
Dredge fish strips in the commercial frying coating, and place
in hot oil. Remove when golden brown. Serve with lemon wedges
as a finger food or remove bones (exposed when strip is broken
1/2 way along its length) and use in a sandwich.[7]
When cooked, the meat of bighead and silver carp is firm, very mild and
slightly sweet. It readily absorbs spices and marinades, but is also great
when used in a classic fish fry. Try Asian carp using these or other recipes
( www.iisgcp.org/AsianCarp ). You’re sure to get hooked on these tasty fish![7]
DID YOU KNOW THAT ASIAN CARP ACHIEVE … sizes of up to 4-feet in length, carp destroy ecosystems by gorging themselves, and starving out other species.[3]
RED NECK FISHING TOURNAMENT ENTRANTS CATCH 493 FISH IN ONE DAY.
The Asian carp Redneck tournament is not your usual fishing competition. For one thing, a pole isn't used, only a net.[6]
For another thing, Curtis and his team caught a total of 493 fish during the two day tournament.[6]
THE ASIAN CARP WILL EAT ALL YOUR FISH. IT WILL EAT ALL THEIR FOOD . IT IS HAS TOO MANY BONES FOR YOU TO EAT AND NO NATURAL PREDATORS
What makes it special is the Asian carp, deemed a "good for nothing" fish. It eats all the good fish, it eats the plankton the other fish need, it has too many bones for human consumption and it has no predators.[6]
SOME ASIAN CARP WEIGH 110 LB
The carp just grow and grow - up to 40 pounds according to some reports for the silver and jumping kind and up to 110 for the "big head" kind that don't jump.[6]
SEA TO AIR FISH ARE TERRORIST MISSILES
The silver carp has an unusual response to motor boats. When it hears the noise, it jumps out of the water, which has been described by Time Magazine as similar to a sea-to-air missile.[6]
"It gave my wife a black eye," Curtis said, noting the velocity with which these fish can fly.[6]
Others on the boats have been smacked in the back, shoulders, ribs, legs, feet and face.[6]
It's important to note that it is not just an occasional carp hurtling out of the river. Unless you have been on the Bath Chute, an eight mile channel next to the Illinois River, it's hard to imagine the numbers of fish shooting through the air all over the place.[6]
ITS LIKE A SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE
"You'd think you were in a science fiction movie," said Curtis, who fishes the regular way all over Michigan and leads a charter for fishermen. "There are 150 in the air all at once."[6]
WE BROUGHT THEM HERE IN 1970 .A FLOOD LET THEM LOSE
Imported from Asia in the 1970s for fish farms to clean up algae, a few escaped in a flood into the Mississippi River and that's all it took.[6]
1 FISH 200,000 CHILDREN
Curtis said the fish can lay 500,000 eggs twice a year and an astonishing 200,000 will survive.[5]
Having heard about the tournament, Curtis gathered six other people, including his wife and friends and acquaintances for the team he called "Great Lakes Guardians."[6]
NET CATCHING
Using only a net to catch the fish, Curtis said his team caught the largest number of fish and the biggest one weighing in at more than 25 pounds.[6]
His team received two trophies, one for second place and one for fourth. They also won a total of $2,300.[6]
While Curtis and his team netted nearly 500 fish, the tournament total was 3,288 carp, which didn't make a dent in the population.[6]
TASTE GOOD BUT TOO MANY BONES
Curtis said they did try to eat them and the taste wasn't bad, but there were simply too many bones.[6]
The rest of the fish caught in the tournament were dumped into a hole, he said.[6]
An electric barrier is what now separates the fish in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal from the Great Lakes. Some aren't holding out much hope that it will keep the fish away. There have been reports that a "big head" Asian carp was found past the barriers.[6]
POISION IS NEEDED
For Curtis, the only thing that will work is poison.[6]
THE CARP KILL OFF THE OTHER FISH
When asked about all the other wildlife that would be destroyed, he noted the other fish now becoming rare if not already extinct in those waters and the other wildlife destroyed or at least put off by the electrical barrier.[6]
"They have to start over," he said.[6]
FEDERAL MONEY TO CONTROL THE CARP
While the Obama Administration is spending nearly $80 million on carp control, others advocate a physical barrier and say that is the only way to keep the carp out.[6]
Asian carp have been spotted in the Great Lakes system -- despite multiple electric barriers erected along the Chicago waterways designed to keep the fish out.[3]
DID YOU KNOW THAT AISAN CARP…capable of eating up to 40 percent of their body weight every day, have been working their way up the Mississippi River for decades. [3]
The species was introduced into the States thirty years ago to help eliminate algae growth from fisheries. Now they're over populating our rivers and heading north. Already, five states have filed law suits, demanding tougher action to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes fishing grounds. [4]
MOTT FOUNDATION GIVES $500,000
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is giving $500,000 to the Great Lakes Commission to help it find ways to prevent invasive Asian carp from entering the lakes.[2]
The Flint-based foundation says it hopes the grant will help protect the Great Lakes region's $7 billion annual sport fishing industry.[2]
The foundation says a team led by the Great Lakes Commission and the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative will seek "the best economic and environmental solutions" for keeping nonnative species from entering the Great Lakes through Chicago's canals.
Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Minnesota and Pennsylvania are asking a federal judge in Chicago to take emergency action to close two shipping locks and install barriers against the carp.[2]
Wisconsin and four other states are asking a federal judge in Chicago to take emergency action to close two shipping locks and install barriers to prevent Asian carp from overrunning the Great Lakes via a "carp highway."[5]
At the first hearing in the case Monday, Judge Robert M. Dow Jr. showed no signs of rushing into a decision. He scheduled Sept. 7 and 8 to hear expert testimony in the case, including from scientists about the environmental DNA testing that has found genetic material from Asian carp in Illinois waterways near Lake Michgian. [5[
THE DOOR IS OPEN FOR THE CARP TO TAKE OVER THE GREAT LAKES
"Chicago's canals currently act as an 'open door' for invasive species to travel between two of America's most important freshwater systems," said William S. White, president and CEO of the Mott Foundation.[3]
While addressing the Chicago waterway problem is critically important, White said, so is addressing other entry points for invasive species across the basin. [3]
In June, the Associated Press reported that, for the first time ever, a 20-pound bighead carp was caught by a fisherman in Illinois's Lake Calumet, on the South Side of Chicago--beyond the electric fence, and only six miles from Lake Michigan.[3]
The proposed prevention project will bring together all key interests - shippers, citizen groups, businesses, agencies, boaters, tribes, and others - to help evaluate options for re-separating the Great Lakes and Mississippi River systems, as the natural barriers between these two watersheds were removed during the last century.[3]
9 year boat operator Jeremy Littrell runs the Shawnee Queen River Taxi, traveling from Golconda to Cave-in-rock along the Ohio. For Littrell, Asian carp rocketing themselves out of the water and onto or into the boat is somewhat normal. "There are some days we probably see thousands, it's like an explosion behind the boat," says Littrell. [4]
He adds that over the last few years he has noticed an increased number jumping out of the water. "It seems like we're seeing bigger fish and small fish, too, so we know they're probably spawning out here."[4]
And spawning is the last thing fisheries expert Jim Garvey wants to see these fish do. "They have a negative impact on other species, particularly fish and potentially water fowl and water birds," says Garvey.[4]
The SIU professor recently received a $1.1 million collaborative grant to solve what sounds so simple: destroy the asian carp population.[4]
"People are concerned that the fish will move from the Illinois river through a canal system into lake michigan." That would jeopardize a $7 billion fishing industry across the Great Lakes. [4]
"As far as I know this is one of the first times ever in the history of fisheries we've actually set out to overfish and potentially fish to near extinction a couple of species," he adds.[4]
The grant will help establish a fishery for the Asian Carp and allow Illinois fish processors sell the unwanted fish back to Asia, where they've already been overfished and are considered a delicacy. [4]
Garvey believes the market for these fish will increase in the states, afterall despite the fish being boney, they're rather tasty.[4]
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A hearing in Flint's 68th District Court for serial killing suspect Elias Abuelazam has been adjourned until Sept. 21, John Potbury, a spokesman for Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton, said Tuesday[1]
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[1]
http://www.freep.com/article/20100901/NEWS05/9010340/Quick-hits-Next-hearing-is-Sept-21-for-slasher-suspect
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[2]
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9HRTGKG0.htm
[3]
http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/mott-grant-helps-erradicate-asian-carp/
[4]
http://www.wsiltv.com/p/news_details.php?newsID=10949&type=top
SEE VIDEO
http://www.wsiltv.com/p/videos.php?videoID=6588&newsID=10949&type=top&vidType=smMov
[5]
http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20100826/OSH0101/308260116/Illinois-waterways-called-Asian-carp-highway-
[6]
http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2010/08/26/news/srv0000009190159.txt
[7]
http://www.iisgcp.org/asiancarp/AsianCarpRecipes.pdf
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