Austin – a controversial plan to launch herbal carp in Lake Austin to fight Hydilla, retracted the reactions of local fishermen.
On July 14, Austin announced plans to launch 350 sterile herbal cabin in the lake to help control the spread of hydrilla. Hydrilla is a type of gas that can be dangerous for swimmers and boats, strangling waterways and making navigation difficult.
The grass carp eats hydrilla as the basic source of food.
“What studies have shown is that as long as there is a present -day present, it will focus somewhat on this resource, allowing other factories to continue and prosper,” said Dr. Brent Beilinger, the supervisor of the preservation program in the city’s water gathering protection department.
“By taking this kind of very measure and measuring approach, and also we try to advance it, we hope to avoid some calamities in the past.”
More than a decade ago, a similar project for Clear Hydrilla led to destruction. An investigation into the KXAN found that between 2011 and 2013, Austin issued 32,000 carb cubes in Lake Austin in an attempt to combat Hydra.
The vegetation under the water suffered as a result. “If the hydrilla is absent, it will resort to the other original vegetation,” said Dr. Bellinger.
The hunter against the carp
“When you take all the grass from the lake, everything follows,” said Karson Koniclin. ATX hunting. The original Austin has been hunting on the lake for years. He is now leading hunting tours. He said Lake Austin is one of its main stations, with the best hunting in the country in the country.
Konkelin, without grass, said, small fish do not contain food or habitats. Without smaller fish, large fish like a brow has nothing to eat, and there are nothing in the hunters to hunt.
“Hunting the lake with the grass is definitely more productive and more enjoyable,” said Conkelin.
While the previous project focused on part of the western lake of the Benipak Bridge, the new version will happen to the east of the bridge. It is clear that the number of fish released is much smaller, as well as the amount of hydrilla that aims to remove it.
“Austin is very famous,” said Dr. Bellinger. It hopes that the number of fish will ensure that the hydrilla will be targeted only.
“The grass will become so thick that it will be difficult to navigate in some areas of the lake,” Konkelin said. “I think there are better ways to reduce grass from herbal carp. I think the grass carp is a quick solution.”
Other solutions include machines that work like the underwater grass stream. However, hydrala can survive because of its spread. Hydrilla remains by turning, as it is separated and repeated elsewhere.
In 2017, after the first version of Carp, many Carp traveled in the direction of the river course to Lady Bird Lake. Dr. Bellinger expects the new crop to remain in Lake Austin, with the exception of a major flood event.