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Battling to eliminate carp from Australian waterways

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Published on 07 Jan 2024 / In Film & Animation

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Councilof1
Councilof1 4 months ago

That first shot looked like Silver Carp. They electrified a canal in America in an an attempt to keep them out of the Great Lake's. Look up Illinois River Silver Carp. Crazy videos.

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

Yeah seen pretty much everything on the electrification system there is at that location.... I think though that Australia is a special case, because aside from the eastern coast line, it's all desert, and when it's not stinking hot and bone dry, it's either on fire or in flood... Cuntish place that it is.... so aside from the coastal strip and the big cities, there is fuck all people over enormous areas, and the Murray Darling system is a HUGE catchment area, kind of like the Missisippi I think the USA has like 230 million people in it and Australia has 28 million in it, but Australia is larger in area, than the 48 states ..... so there are sort of fuck all people to fish out and trap and harvest staggering amounts of fish, over enormous amounts of area and huge distances of curly whirly rivers - I think I road mile point to point = about 7 river miles... So..... AND many rivers tend to be trickles to bone dry for much of the time, and only flow after heavy and prolonged rains, and a few of the bigger ones tend to flow most of the time, but even they can dry up if the drought is severe enough, for long enough. https://www.theguardian.com/en....vironment/ng-interac ---- https://topwiretraveller.com/murray-darling-basin/ ---- https://phys.org/news/2019-01-....darling-river-simply ------ https://www.flickr.com/photos/mundoo/40238259/

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Councilof1
Councilof1 4 months ago

@Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson: That dry/wet cycle sounds brutal

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@Councilof1: This is actually quite a good read up on the subjects : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deserts_of_Australia ----- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Murray%E2%80%93Darli

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@Councilof1: Yeah they look a bit like the silver carp in the USA... Who knows where the ABC got their footage from in 1975...

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

The silver carp - from Asia ???? they are longer and slender and sort of more mackeral like, where as the fat European carp, in Australia have a much higher back, and a much lower belly and are much wider and bigger around the body... The carp at the start DO look like the Asian silver carp - in the USA...

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Life_N_Times_of_Shane_T_Hanson

@Councilof1: Mostly Dry - or on fire or flooded. https://upload.wikimedia.org/w....ikipedia/commons/e/e

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