Record number of invasive carp harvested from Illinois River – Center Square

An effort to protect the Great Lakes from an invasive species hit a milestone recently with the harvesting of some 750,000 pounds of invasive carp from the Illinois River.
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Old Joe
4 months ago

Now that’s interesting. Let’s put illegals to work fishing for carp. Then we can require people on EBT cards to purchase 1 carp per week to supplement their otherwise poor food choices. This is a real democratic party progressive 3 fer.

If the IDHS needs any more free nutrition advice just contact Mark and he’ll forward Old Joe’s email!

debtsor
4 months ago
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That’s ‘Copi’ to you, ‘Copi’ because Asian Carp is racist, or something.

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