The Louisiana
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is reminding the public
that the take and possession of grass carp and the use of
gill and trammel nets in a restricted area of Avoyelles Parish
where the department has stocked grass carp for aquatic weed
control is prohibited. This new rule went into effect on May
20.
The grass
carp restricted area in Avoyelles Parish includes the Spring
Bayou Complex that includes the Spring Bayou Wildlife Management
Area (WMA), Old River and Little River.
The purpose of
this new rule is to help protect the 11,000 grass carp purchased
by the Avoyelles Parish Police Jury and recently stocked into
the Spring Bayou Complex to help control hydrilla, which covers
about 80 percent of the complex’s waterways.
Grass carp have
shown to be an effective nuisance aquatic weed control method
on certain types of water bodies.
