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Originally Posted by Delawareriver
Trust me with a single female carp being able to lay 125,000- 250,000 eggs in a single spawn there will always be carp around to catch/shoot. There is hundreds of thousands in nj alone.
Matt it's not so much of an invasive species issue as it is carp destroy ecosystems. Been scientifically proven in multiple studies the negative affects they have. I don't blame anyone for enjoying fishing for carp as they get larger and are easier to catch then any other species in new jersey. No other species you can catch multiple 20 lbers on any given trip plus good chances at 30 lbers and 40 lbers are caught every year. But i find it to easy. Have used the euro carping techniques and fly fished for them but pretty easy to figure out as long you don't spook them
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I think the NJDEP does a wonderful job of managing our fisheries, so I tend to leave that to them. When they start advocating a carp kill like they've done with the true invasive species like flatheads, then maybe I'll think twice about releasing them. Killing hundreds if not thousands of fish under the guise of bettering our ecosystems is just a bunch of BS in my book. Killing fish just to give them to farmers and anyone else who will take them really isn't in the spirit of what I consider sportsmanship. Congrats on the big carp you shot. I've seen a dozen bigger carp caught in this state that were released, and half the people on this board know there are bigger carp that have been landed than your "record." To me that is much more of an accomplishment than having a piece of paper, your name in the compendium and a picture of a dead fish.
