[Newsbot]

Title: Huge, once-hated fish now seen as weapon against Asian carp
Category: World
Posted By: Robair
Date: 2016-07-29 15:31:31

[N_Fiddledog]

Here ya go.

This one'll work.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/huge-onc ... -1.3007246



This Aug. 12, 2015 photo provided by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources shows IDNR biologist Nerissa McClelland holding alligator gar collected during a sampling survey at Powerton Lake in Powerton, Ill. (Illinois Department of Natural Resources via AP)

CHICAGO -- It's a toothy giant that can grow longer than a horse and heavier than a refrigerator, a fearsome-looking prehistoric fish that plied U.S. waters from the Gulf of Mexico to Illinois until it disappeared from many states a half-century ago.
Persecuted by anglers and deprived of places to spawn, the alligator gar -- with a head that resembles an alligator and two rows of needlelike teeth -- survived primarily in southern states in the tributaries of Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico after being declared extinct in several states farther north. To many, it was a freak, a "trash fish" that threatened sportfish, something to be exterminated.
But the once-reviled predator is now being seen as a valuable fish in its own right, and as a potential weapon against a more threatening intruder: the invasive Asian carp, which have swum almost unchecked toward the Great Lakes, with little more than an electric barrier to keep them at bay. Efforts are now underway to reintroduce the alligator gar in the northern part of its old range...

[Hyack]

I would surely hate to see an Asian carp come leaping out of the water heading in my direction with that bad-ass mof*ck on it's tail.....