Fish in the Wrong Place

Ah, there are so many things about the Great Lakes that people who aren't from around here don't realize.

Here's the simplest one: They're really, really big. The sights and sounds are indistinguishable from an ocean. The only obvious distinction is that it doesn't smell salty.

And, yeah, the damn carp. Electro fishing is the best way we have to handle them, and it supposedly works very well. Carp like to hang around the surface, while many native species swim much deeper in the water, so the electric fences actually filter for the carp pretty well.

Recreational fishing gets rid of some of them too, but there are several different species that we collectively call "asian carp," and only some of them bite on fishing lures. Eat more carp, I suppose.

>But whatever the intention, the results were almost always the same: aquatic colonisers destroyed indigenous environments.

Why was everything always good, peaceful and stable in "indigenous environments" until "the colonizers " show up? I find it hard to believe.

I was imagining to click a link to an indie hacker’s blog about a story outlining how it’s beneficial to “fish in the wrong place” to solve a problem or something

https://archive.ph/orovn

The article's title is somewhat misleading: the bulk of the text is about various human attempts at water-based geo-engineering and environmental control through recent history.