2:05 pm Thu March 17, 2011  Carping Criticism    But if that
ever happens, it will be an environmental disaster of
unimaginable proportions. The carp are huge awful ugly fish. One
variety tends to jump and have broken water skiers’ jaws.
Worse, they suck up virtually all the available food supply,
which means they starve out other more desirable fish. Once they
get firmly established, they are virtually impossible to
eradicate, which would mean farewell to the sport and commercial
fishing industries.  Plus, that would play havoc with the
ecology of the lakes and could cost the economy, depending on
whose estimates you believe,  between one and seven billion
dollars a year.  I wondered what the government has been doing
about this, and last week talked to a highly respected
environmental journalist about this. The Toledo Blade’s Tom
Henry has been following the carp story for years. He has won
numerous awards for his reporting, and is on the Society of
Environmental Journalists board.  When I asked him what o