Holy flying fish! Giant carp attack university rowing team

[Surya Gayatri]

Last edited Thu Apr 16, 2015, 07:55 AM - Edit history (1)

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.

[Hoppy]

1. Yummy suschi.

[hobbit709]

2. Invasive species that is destroying the ecology in many waterways.

[Surya Gayatri]

3. True, imported from Asia.

[snooper2]

18. Which is why they are called Asian Carp

[VScott]

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

http://www.startribune.com/252700111.html

[snooper2]

23. LOL, that's why I posted that, remembered that thread from a while back

what ever happened with that-

[VScott]

24. When I first saw that it was Asian Carp involved, that was the first thing I thought of also.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024911270#post2

I have no idea how far the bill advanced.

[Iggo]

19. That sounds like what rightwingers call people who crossed the border illegaly.

[SidDithers]

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]

12. Oh, you mean the fish

For a moment there, I thought you meant humans.

[ronnie624]

17. Lol.

[B Calm]

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]

5. The coxswain says "Roe! Roe! Roe!"

[Surya Gayatri]

7. Oh, you...!

[underpants]

8. Carp a diem

[Surya Gayatri]

9. Even more 'fishy'!

[msanthrope]

10. You just gutted this thread. nt

[jberryhill]

13. Ich!

[underpants]

14. These college students were upset when they found out it was....

Gills gone wild

[msanthrope]

15. Not the catch they were expecting, eh? nt

[DFW]

16. Everywhere they show up

It's the World According to Carp.

[liberal N proud]

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]

22. Time to get the pitchforks!