yeah the state put up 2million to help build of a plant to process them and ship them back to china...Almost seems like a scam now. First they send them over - then we pay a chinnese company to build a plant - to make food to send back to china....

 

Mmmmm carp out in 95 degree heat mmm mmm.

It was a scam.

 

Big River Fish is American owned, NO?

 

It was a scam.

If the state of Illinois was involved, it was.

$20,000,000 for a wire across the canal that doesn't work.
(was bid at $7 million, but it's not done yet.)

$3,000,000 to poison 1 asian carp.

MY personal favorite was the plant they were going to put in Spring Valley.
The plant "owners" expected the state to pay for the building, and then pay the commercial fisherman to bring the fish in.
The "owners" had a no risk, no commitment deal.
I want to build a business like that.

There are good uses for them and Il should use them, but not at the taxpayers expense and gain for a few "friends of IL"

 

I was at stratton park in Morris this morning and there were 7 boats out netting asian carp at least i hope that is what they were netting does anyone know anything about this?

How where they netting? Cast netting or drag netting? Also was it commerical boats, DNR boats, or recrational boats?

There is NO commerical fishing above the RT 83 bridge on the Illinois River, so if they were commerical fishing they are a long way from home.

 

River rat I never actualy saw them setting there nets But I saw nets in their boats.I also saw a boat load of fish going down rt.47 on wednesday.I don't think they are DNR.I could be wrong.I was just hopeing all they were taking was asiain's that part of the river is tough enough to fish .The fish in the boat that went by me wed. looked like bigheads.

 

Big River Fish is American owned, NO?

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Illinois is entering into an agreement with Chinese meat processing company Beijing Zhuochen Animal Husbandry Company and Big River Fisheries


I didnt notice the and in there

 

From what I read Big River could already process 50 million lbs a year. The contract is for 30 million so I'm not sure why they need 2mm of tax payer funds.

$.10 - $.15 per lb to the fisherman I guess if you worked your arse off you could make a decent buck. Figuring you haul 10,000 lbs a day.

 

From what I read Big River could already process 50 million lbs a year. The contract is for 30 million so I'm not sure why they need 2mm of tax payer funds.

$.10 - $.15 per lb to the fisherman I guess if you worked your arse off you could make a decent buck. Figuring you haul 10,000 lbs a day.

10K per day is nothing... Good ones will pull 3 times that.

 

Just a thought here. Thinking of all of LLC's that build wind turbines, only to leave them rotting in farm fields and hillsides, and all of the abandoned commercial buildings along our rivers already; what would happen to these facilities should we actually solve this asian carp problem? Is that even a possibility? Will these factories just turn into more rotting debris on the shore? I'm not too familiar with the area, but I'm sure someone could use one of the many 'factories' already built and vacant. Honestly everytime I think of asian carp I get a knot in my stomach so sorry if I'm a Debbie Downer :-?

 

There's an episode of "Monster Fish" about the asian carp in the Illinois River currently airing on the National Geographic Channel (and video on demand) that is freaky. It shows the silver carp jumping by the hundreds and those things really fly out of the water! Check it out.

 

In Morris there are two grocery stores a lumber yard and a paper factory plus a drywall warehouse all within 5minutes of the river.I dont know how much room they would need but all these buildings are sitting empty.

 

You just don't put up a fish processing plant in the middle of a populated area... :skunk:

 

There is an article in the Morris Daily Herald abou this.. DNR operation to remove asian carp from the river. They found a lot more than I thought they would.

 

Was there on thursday and the dumpster was fillin up

 

I like snagging for them, and they are not bad in taste... Do they clash with native species??

 

Not only is the fishing in danger BUT what happens to all of the water skiers and jet boats. Would you like to be skiing and run into a school of those 30 to 100 # silver beauties.

OUCH