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Australia's Carp Problem

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European carp now dominate thousands of waterways right across eastern Australia, since there unwanted introduction in the 1960s. Thousands of tons of carp a being removed every year and processed for fertiliser, and in spite of these efforts of fisheries workers, farmers & volunteers this has made little to no impact on numbers. The carp population continues to grow and their presence increases turbidity, competition for native food sources while decimating the natural environment. Speaking with experts, officials and passionate advocates for our waterways, we want to understand the significance of this issue and discover a real and immediate solution before it's too late.

CREDITS
Presented by Bill Classon
Interviews with Anthony Forster, Peter Ingram, Simon Hocking, David Jochinke, Dr. Siwan Lovett, Luke Pearce, Ron Vise, David Pocock, Ivor Stuart
Additional Footage provided by Alcam Film & Video Production Pty. Ltd
This production is part of Victorian Fisheries Authority carp education initiative:
"Carpe Diem
Seize the Day"

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20 Comments

@barramundi1479 2 weeks ago

Bloody good episode Bill.
Well done on compiling this episode.
These bloody things……..they are so adaptable and brackish is no problem for them. Nothing is a problem for them so we need to make one!

@grimreaper6112 2 weeks ago

Maybe turn them into a food source and make it cheap so people will buy it.

@Diogenes7777 2 weeks ago

And I still cant get a bite 😂

@MickTurczyn 2 weeks ago

The virus only has a 30% efficacy and will jump host species as the pilchard herpes virus did nearly 30 years ago.
Why do all these experts insist on ignoring the major warnings from experts from across the world that give evidence at the nccp senate enquiry back in 2018 that cancelled the trials and the release.
Millions of tonnes of dying fish bleeding from the gills and dying slowly will cause massive Blackwater events every time the water temperature is right for the virus.

@mickmakings4175 2 weeks ago

Carp don't bother politicians who never get out in the environment, that is the problem. If it happened to be an election issue, we'll then, things would be good, until they changed their position!

@daves3259 2 weeks ago

Government won’t release the virus because carp are in our drinking water supply eg Warragamba Dam (Lake Burragorang) and a mass death event will pollute the water.

@01MrCapricorn 13 days ago

Local authorities should license and track a scheme where EVERY waterway gets an open position for two or three local anglers to regularly fish those JUST for carp. Even incentivise numbers with a prize pool or something, since it would be voluntary. People get a stake in their community as well as making real, manigible change over time (adjusting open position numbers as specific local need demands etc).

@jelesstaats5130 2 weeks ago

this show should be on every TV channel

@joenilsson6880 13 days ago

It's amazing to see that they are in eastern flowing streams. So they've gotten over the great divide out of the Murray-Darling system. They are bloody everywhere.

@jelesstaats5130 2 weeks ago

I have seen carp where Leather Barrel creek and the Indi river miles up from Tom Grogin.

@HermannCortez 2 weeks ago (edited)

We had massive carp explosions in the 1980's in the Murray River but their numbers crashed precipitously. So why is this suddenly a problem? Where did they come from?

@winstonwilliams4859 2 weeks ago

so why not open it up so anyone with a recreational licence can catch and sell carp instead of leaving them on the bank ,at least they could recover fuel costs

@normandiebryant6989 2 weeks ago

I sure hope any platypus, with their electro-receptors to detect their prey, aren't hurt by this electrocution fishing.

@robertcaune840 2 weeks ago

Great article! Congratulations.

@jimatsydney 2 weeks ago (edited)

"On an average day they catch 2 and a half tonnes".
"We catch 4 tonnes a week. We could catch much more but we don't have a market"
The price of carp for food in asia varies from $3 to $40 au per kg. (Google AI) Live carp get more. Therefore making an assumption that a live quality fish might get $10 per kg 4000 kg would gross $40,000. Google AI says again it costs $2500 to air freight 1000 kg from Sydney to asia. Taking into account other costs. Even at $20,000 cost that might leave $20,000 profit. Does anyone know why we don't export the darn pest?
We know how to live export sheep. Why not carp?

@jelesstaats5130 2 weeks ago

the pelicans would love to help.

@OzMat 6 days ago

Using an industrial vacuum such as you see on a vac truck would be a far more efficient way of bulk harvesting those Carp. Fill the vacuum up displace the water dump the carp into a truck sized skip bin . Repeat. Catch 20 tonnes a time or more.

@GadibundhuAdmin 10 days ago

So what I am hearing is carp as a fish is like museum as a humans

@BrettNorman-iu6wj 2 weeks ago

That's why I've been buying "Charlie Carp" liquid fertilizer for years

@victoria-q5h5p 2 weeks ago

Watch a catch-and-cook video to see how to clean and prepare a carp: As noted by Finterest, carp are not commonly eaten in places like Australia due to cultural preferences, despite being edible.