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Originally Posted by TheLongRun
I know. I don't think that's gonna really take off though, hasn't yet. They'd do better with the crawfish bait angle or just a bounty, like the nutria program. They are never gonna get rid of them, I doubt even significantly reduce the numbers. That's one NASTY invasive species.
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One thing we do when we catch a lot of fish in Colorado is clean them and bring them down to a local soup kitchen. They are always very happy to add fish to the menu, as high quality protein is valued in the world of soup kitchens and food pantries. The cooks in the soup kitchens tend to be highly skilled at making inexpensive food palatable to their customers.
In Colorado, the invasive species are Northern Pike and Lake Trout in some of the mountain reservoirs because they eat tons of small trout and kokanee salmon. The DPW is running a netting operation on one reservoir where they remove several thousand lake trout each year. On another reservoir, they encourage anglers to keep every pike and only permit pike tournaments if the rules are catch and kill and keep. Neither invasive species problem is completely solved, but they are keeping the problems of trout and kokanee predation controlled.