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cwolff 
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Posted on: Feb. 26 2004,5:35 pm |
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There was a electrical fish barrier put in the outlet channel of Heron Lake several miles from the lake. Yes, down stream from Heron Lake, so most of the carp recruitment was supposedly coming upstream into Heron Lake. The fish barrier shocks the fish as they swim up stream, and the stunned fish float down stream before they regain their motor skills and again try several times to swim up stream to only get shocked again before they finally turn around and go elsewhere. It has not prevented carp from entering Heron Lake, since there are lots of carp also coming into the lake from the two inlets.
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Liberal
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Posted on: Feb. 26 2004,6:20 pm |
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The fish barrier shocks the fish as they swim up stream, and the stunned fish float down stream before they regain their motor skills and again try several times to swim up stream to only get shocked again before they finally turn around and go elsewhere.
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That has to be fun watching the stupid unconcious carp float back downstream. Maybe it's worth it afterall since we don't have much to do for excitement I'm guessing that unconcious fish floating down the Shell Rock will be a big draw. In fact I'll bet more people will go check that out than Gabes July Courthouse tour.
Since Sheriff Harig volunteered to be shocked with the new stun gun when they got them maybe we could get Gabe to swim through this when we get it. An unconcious Gabe floating down the Shell Rock with a bunch of carp would certainly draw a crowd.
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cwolff
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Posted on: Feb. 26 2004,9:24 pm |
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Liberal, oh its great fun! PETAA (People Eating Tasty Amperage Animals) will flock to town for the first few months, but otherwise they will spend a lot of money in town. Just give their national office a call to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony to help pull the electical switch to power the electrical fish barrier.
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MrTarzan
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Posted on: Feb. 26 2004,9:47 pm |
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I wonder what the electric bill will bill for a constant supply of voltage to a conductor like water? Do you think that maybe we will get soaked another way?  Instead of a ribbon cutting ceremony we should make a dummy and call him Sensible Sam and cover him with dollars and burn him to ashes, just like all the rest of our dollars and common sense. 
$300,000 to $600,000 for a carp fence, when we don't know for sure that there are no carp in the lake now, (not to mention carp eggs)  Give me a break. Just pay me the lesser amount of $300,000, and I will make it my job to stand in the shell rock in hip waders with a mask and a cattle prod and keep them out myself. I'll pay one of our poor unemployed ex-packer workers to take care of the night shift, no better yet two of them (one to hold the flashlight), and at least I'll be creating jobs locally. I mean flying in a salesman and paying his expenses when they would have come for free, let's at least try to pretend we care what we do with taxpayer money 
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