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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoly flying fish! Giant carp attack university rowing team
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GET OFF MY LAKE!
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...
A morning rowing session turned into an exercise in dodging fish for one university rowing team, when they found themselves being attacked by dozens of flying carp while training on the Creve Coeur Lake in Missouri.
In the footage, the Washington University rowing team were out practicing ahead of the national championships in Florida when the fish frenzy occurred.
While no one was injured, some of the rowers were hit by the frantic fish.
Junior Benjamin Rosenbaum, the captain of the varsity rowing team, filmed the attack and said: They're huge fish. They hurt when then hit you in the rib cage.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/dozens-of-flying-fish-attack-washington-university-rowing-team-in-extraordinary-video-10180416.html
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Shades of 'The Birds'.
Maybe they're just 'fed up to the gills' with pollution and climate-warmed water.
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Holy flying fish! Giant carp attack university rowing team (Original Post)
Surya Gayatri
Apr 2015
OP
When I first saw that it was Asian Carp involved, that was the first thing I thought of also.
VScott
Apr 2015
#24
Looks like the Wabash River here in Indiana. Now when relatives from out of state
B Calm
Apr 2015
#4
Asian Carp are a problem and an invasive species - they are not native to US waterways.
liberal N proud
Apr 2015
#6
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)1. Yummy suschi.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)2. Invasive species that is destroying the ecology in many waterways.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)3. True, imported from Asia.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)18. Which is why they are called Asian Carp
VScott
(774 posts)20. Try telling that to these folks.
In nod to cultural sensitivity, Minnesota considers renaming Asian carp to 'invasive carp'
ST. PAUL, Minn. The troublesome fish currently known as Asian carp may get a new name in Minnesota over concern that the current one casts people from Asian cultures in a negative light.
Proposals advancing in the Legislature would require the Department of Natural Resources to refer to the fish as "invasive carp," a reference to the threat the non-native fish pose to Mississippi River-area ecosystems.
Sen. John Hoffman, the Champlin Democrat sponsoring a bill in the Senate, said some people of Asian descent have complained about the name.
"Caucasians brought them to America," Hoffman, the bill's primary Senate sponsor, said Thursday. "Should we call them 'Caucasian carp?' They have names. Let's call them what they are."
Asian carp actually describes two closely related fish, the bighead carp and silver carp, that are native to a region of Asia spanning China, part of Siberia and North Korea, said Cindy Kolar, a fish biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Va. Since their introduction to the United States about 30 years ago, they have become a threat to native fish including those in the Great Lakes, Minnesota and elsewhere.
Jean Lee, who testified for the Senate bill Thursday, said she became upset by the term as it was used during a round-table meeting she attended with Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials.
"They were referring to the Asian people in terms of being invasive species. This was offensive," said Lee, executive director of the Children's Hope International Minnesota chapter. That St. Louis-based nonprofit organization facilitates international adoptions from countries including China and Vietnam
ST. PAUL, Minn. The troublesome fish currently known as Asian carp may get a new name in Minnesota over concern that the current one casts people from Asian cultures in a negative light.
Proposals advancing in the Legislature would require the Department of Natural Resources to refer to the fish as "invasive carp," a reference to the threat the non-native fish pose to Mississippi River-area ecosystems.
Sen. John Hoffman, the Champlin Democrat sponsoring a bill in the Senate, said some people of Asian descent have complained about the name.
"Caucasians brought them to America," Hoffman, the bill's primary Senate sponsor, said Thursday. "Should we call them 'Caucasian carp?' They have names. Let's call them what they are."
Asian carp actually describes two closely related fish, the bighead carp and silver carp, that are native to a region of Asia spanning China, part of Siberia and North Korea, said Cindy Kolar, a fish biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, Va. Since their introduction to the United States about 30 years ago, they have become a threat to native fish including those in the Great Lakes, Minnesota and elsewhere.
Jean Lee, who testified for the Senate bill Thursday, said she became upset by the term as it was used during a round-table meeting she attended with Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials.
"They were referring to the Asian people in terms of being invasive species. This was offensive," said Lee, executive director of the Children's Hope International Minnesota chapter. That St. Louis-based nonprofit organization facilitates international adoptions from countries including China and Vietnam
http://www.startribune.com/252700111.html
snooper2
(30,151 posts)23. LOL, that's why I posted that, remembered that thread from a while back
what ever happened with that-
VScott
(774 posts)24. When I first saw that it was Asian Carp involved, that was the first thing I thought of also.
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Iggo
(47,571 posts)19. That sounds like what rightwingers call people who crossed the border illegaly.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)21. No, it sounds like what scientists say about invasive species...
But calling people "illegals" sounds exactly like what a right-winger would say. People are not illegal.
Sid
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)12. Oh, you mean the fish
For a moment there, I thought you meant humans.
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)17. Lol.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)4. Looks like the Wabash River here in Indiana. Now when relatives from out of state
come to visit, they all want me to take them for a boat ride to see the flying fish. Getting to be a tourist attraction.
underpants
(182,904 posts)5. The coxswain says "Roe! Roe! Roe!"
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)7. Oh, you...!
underpants
(182,904 posts)8. Carp a diem
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)9. Even more 'fishy'!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)10. You just gutted this thread. nt
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)13. Ich!
underpants
(182,904 posts)14. These college students were upset when they found out it was....
Gills gone wild
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)15. Not the catch they were expecting, eh? nt
DFW
(54,445 posts)16. Everywhere they show up
It's the World According to Carp.
liberal N proud
(60,346 posts)6. Asian Carp are a problem and an invasive species - they are not native to US waterways.
These fish have been invading rivers and lakes in the Midwest for several years. The worry it that if they get in the Great Lakes, they will destroy the habitat for native species in those lakes.
herding cats
(19,568 posts)22. Time to get the pitchforks!