20,000 Carp Die of Herpes in Chautauqua Lake

June 29, 2005 · Filed Under Uncategorized 

In the lovely area where my parents have their lake house, dead fish are rising to the surface everywhere. Apparently, these carp are dying from some form of Koi-Herpes (insert Katie Holmes joke here) and now the region is faced with trying to clean up all the dead fish.

I am heading there this weekend, and I will give you a full report on the sights, and unfortunately, the smells of this normally beautiful place.

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3 Responses to “20,000 Carp Die of Herpes in Chautauqua Lake”

  1. Chris on June 29th, 2005 2:58 pm

    I hate carp. Non-native species that eats every damn thing and takes over. I’m glad they’re dead and I hope they rot in hell. Plus, they can fly:

    http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=84128

    Also, there’s a town, in Maine, I think, where every summer, jillions of menhaden get stranded by the outgoing tide and die. The stench is supposedly something to behold.

  2. FilteringCraig on June 29th, 2005 3:19 pm

    Carp are just disgusting, pigpen-like fish. I used to rent canoes in Geneva Ohio at the Harpersfield Covered Bridge Park

    (www.ashtabulacountymetroparks.org/harpers.htm)

    and I used to just cringe when the Mexican family would load up a carp they had caught to take home to eat.

  3. Mark on June 29th, 2005 6:21 pm

    I was at the Chautauqua lake last weekend sometime right after the Herpies outbreak. I did see a lot of dead Carp but there were not as many as you would have thought. I actually went swimming a few times. By the way we are now refering to the Carp’s Herpies as “carpies.”


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