The US Government's $800 Million Fish Taser
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“Then the boat can go on its merry way” the opportunity to change merry with ferry was lost and I am disappointed
Only one in five dentists have the courage to speak the truth.
Carp
@@prakharmishra3000 bigger
And consequently due to never having been able to actually interpret X-ray images; drill holes in your teeth unnecessarily. Many later subjected to class action lawsuits.
Oh no
@@BugsWisely Carp
As a Michigan native, I was hoping that the "Fish Tazer" would just fry anything unlucky enough to be in the water.
I mean that would also allow for free cooked fish...
@@Commrade-DOGE I think you’re on to something here
I think it would be cool if they somehow taught the carp to eat lampreys and zebra mussels instead of plankton.
I'm not quite clear on why it isn't designed to do that. These monsters can destroy an ecosystem, why are we going with a solution that "should deter them" instead of a 100% lethal shock?
@@smeggiamagarwine electric selection
"To be completed in 2027".
And they're confident the carp won't reach Lake Michigan for another 6 years?
nope, the already existing electric batrier was thought to have been enough. you can think of this as the last minute, oh shit we are about to lose 23 billion yearly if this fails again strategy.
Lol, what a colossusly stupid problem.
@@bjh3612 You know some idiot will release them into the lake in ignorance or on purpose to be a jackass with it that close.
@@mittensfastpaw honestly, i can see it being a tiktok challenge
"found within 3 miles" basically translates to "they're probably in there, you're fucked"
Next video on Wendover Productions:
The logistics of flying fish
I guess that's close enough to airplanes.
Is Wendover a competitor?
@@JaxAug yes
"4 out of 5 dentists agree that boats are bigger than Carp"
-HAI 2021
I want to meet that 5th dentist
which of these dentists said that Carp were bigger than the boats?
|-O-|.
Legend says the fifth dentist flunked International fish studies...
The fifth dentist cheated in all of his exams.
Thats indeed an interesting way to spend money
crazy
Disagreed. Just give me to money to eat them all!!!
amogus
guys look verified youtuber reply quick before there’s 500 replies
that is indeed the *best* way to spend money
Our school just made us do a project on this exact situation. We had to design a solution to keep bighead carp out of Lake Michigan. THIS EXACT ONE. If this video came out a week earlier, then I would have had my answer.
Should just make a network of boats with super strong tasers and put them in all waters to kill all the fishes and repopulate them with native species.
Some of the waters are mostly made out of carps anyway.
So what did you come up with?
Asian carp is one of the well liked fish in India n china. American dont eat it because of its bone. If you cant kill them just eat them. Create fish export system, or force pet food and fertilizer industry to use carp fish
@@vijays8555 "If you cant kill them just eat them"
like, alive?
@@Morningstar_37 No he means like if your hearth can't handle the mass killing of a fish species for merely existing then just try eating then so at least they died for something. Which is a pretty stupid way of thinking, the best thing you can do is kill them as soon as you catch them an then throw them back into the water, that way other creatures like baby bluegills, or crawfish can feed on their remains.
Asian carp eat a ton
Sounds like they're fitting right in here in the US
Can I please start a fight here?
Most americans also eat 20% of their bodyweight in lower life forms every day?
@@jmonsted As a European, that sounds about right.
@@bartholomewdan truer words have never been spoken
And racists say that immigrants don't assimilate.
Sounds like the carp assimilate really well. About 20% of their body weight each day.
"They out compete their american counterpart"... Dude, *ouch*
That's truer than I could possibly prove it to be true
They use cheap and basically slave labor to outcompete us
Well, yeah... its kind of hard to compete with slavery
@@ethanverdersa2520 I now right it is almost like you don’t pay them anything or give them basic rights hmmmmmmm
Those mfs work for like 12 hours a day, they’re hardworking af
now I have to ask why they went to all the trouble of setting up this anti-carp barrier when they could have simply declared war on the carp and sent in a squad of marines to take them all out?
Yeah, declaring war should work. Like the war on drugs, war on homelessness, war on terrorism... oh you mean shootin' wars. So a quick efficient solution like the war on Afghanistan, the war on Iraq, the war on Vietnam...
Do you mean like the emu war?
Well the Norwegian answer is or was to kill all life in the rivers proven or suspected of harboring an infectious salmon virus. So, there's a well tested method for you.
Don't know what people would say if you proposed to kill all higher aquatic lifeforms in the entire Mississippi...
@@starandfox601 Ohh no those ended badly.
Well 90% of the life in the river is carp, so you’d basically have to just kill the entire river
I want to have my gravestone say "here lies George Smith, he died by being slapped in the face from asian carp"
Imagine just visiting a funeral and seeing that on a gravestone. I'll burst out laughing
Hey, you have the most generic name I can think of
Coincidence... I think not
@@Michael_Chater (:
We can make arrangements for that.
Do you work at the Ministry of Silly Walks by chance?
If one of those fishes go thought that system, then that's not only an invasive fish, but also a *strong boi invasive fish king with superpowers* so it will be even more impossible to get rid of them in lake Michigan.
Easy. Just CARPet bomb the Carp.
@@stijn2472 Carp
𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙮, strong boi carp
Tazer resistant Asian carp
What these fish teach us is to seize the day.
In other words, carpe diem.
Oh, I'm not supposed to seize the fish? I've lived my whole life wrong.
Foods for the worms o captain! My captain!
carp-e diem
That's the corniest comment on the net today... Well done
Carpe carp…Seize the carp
I solemnly put my hand on my heart as the US National Anthem plays and hundreds of dead fish float to the surface of the lake behind me. One patriotic tear falls from my cheek.
Oh....! I get it. Fish HATE noise.
The sound of freedom is just too much for the carps to handle 😂
If the song of There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly has taught me anything, they just need a bigger fish to eat the Asian Carp. Perhaps the Alligator Gar. Then just bring in Alligators to hunt the gar. Bring in raccoons to take care of the baby alligators. Coyotes for the raccoons. Brown bears for the coyotes. Tigers for the bears. Umm. How does song end again? Ohhh, nevermind.
Take up the ol' murican tradition: shooting problems to make them go away
@@andyb2028 "Lake get spammed? Shoot your problems away"
@@smeggiamagarwine yes, the old lady can nag the tiger and bear to death
@@smeggiamagarwine oh haha. I'm not from the US, so I didn't know any better. sad ending though.
*Dragons*
Boat people: living
Carp: And I took that personally
They just want to give a high five to the land dwellers. Why do people think they hate people?
this hit me so silly i had to stop and laugh it out
“Slapped to death by a fishy boi”
Kyle hill: the worlds most dangerous water
HAI: fish taser
All hail the basilisk
Magikarp
I'm 100% certain the Army Corp of Engineers would have gone with fish taser. Sadly, "taser" falls under the trademark of Taser International. "Electric dispersal barrier" was probably the backup name that the designers went with. It allowed the device to have a cool name, but also an acronym they could reference in every other sentence to make military jargon sound even more like a scrambled recitation of the alphabet.
"3 Asian carp have been captured past the electric barrier here, that's CURRENTLY the primary line of defense" pun intended?
Likely no, but he will take credit
As a Lake Michigan adjacent Michigander, I can't tell you how big of a deal this is to us.
Why not?
Me too as someone who lives in Illinois near Chicago.
Kill all the river fish! 90% trash fish anyways! Then repopulate!
I've heard of this, but "fish taser" is definitely the greatest name for it ever.
For april fools, you oughta make a video that's not about bricks, start explaining bricks and continue.
The joke is that it was about bricks, everyone just thought it was an intro distraction.
Holy shit you did it
Lol I literally live 10 minutes from the Asian Buffet shown at 0:46, I had to go back and look at it several times.
Loool
@Cali Boy 10th avenue
R.I.P.
Sam Fromwendover
19something - 2021
Slapped to death by a fish.
Fun fact: people with pacemakers aren't allowed near the lock. I work freight trains on the tracks next to it and we had to stop crew swaps near there due to the health hazard.
You know it's going to be a wild video when it starts with 'the US government'
That’s when you know that we’re about to learn something about bricks.
@@kirkland2228 Sadly, no bricks this time. :(
This sounds like it all relies on all fish eggs and larvae being successfully flushed out, and every carp getting scared of the barriers..... it is literally based on hopes and dreams....
Except for the Tazer. That will kill many many fish.
@@ravenwing199 it doesn't kill them as said in the video
@@LeviForWaifu That would be animal cruelty, and we can only have that if the animals will be food later.
@@LeviForWaifu I'm thinking young or small fish who it will likely incapacitate.
Imagine someone having to justify the fish taser at a congressional budget hearing: “Bu- But the fish were da- da- ngerous”.
Haha I love your videos though, as they served as an inspiration for my channel.
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So I looked at your channel, and it looked pretty interesting. Like you make videos in different topics than HAI but use a similar format, which is very neat. I will subscribe!
@@niddhigarg3344 oh thanks!
From Northern Illinois and I can say with certainty that this is a serious issue. Jokes aside this is a serious issue and really not much has worked so far.
immigrant fish
YES FINALLY ON THE RIGHT CHANNEL!!!!!!!!
But there are many channels but with different narrators
Everybody gangsta until a kid accidentally steps on the river and dies
*timmy : slapped to death by a fish*
2:44 so I thought it was crazy that Lake Michigan’s fishing industry was less than half the size of its recreational boating industry, but astoundingly the domestic fishing industry nationwide is dwarfed by the recreational boating industry, which is more than six times the size of the former. Even if you include imported fish, it’s still about two-and-a-half times larger. America, you are an odd duck.
Fish isn't a major part of the American diet unless its Lent in a catholic area.
“Electroids...” Sounds dangerous.
Also sounds like something that plants might crave.
Bubbles are a last resort when we have a giant taser floor? That’s hilarious!
"This is Murica, I will never bow down to no..."
*FISH SLAP*
"All hail Carplord!"
I live on the Illinois river and in the summer they have festivals where people compete shooting these carp with a bow and arrow when they jump out of the water
w-what about shooting them with guns?? m...murica????
@@scythal Shots aren't free you know..
0:19 what do you mean? that intro is f i n tastic
I see what you did there.
Thank you for bringing a depressed person some happiness
5:07 "electroids" 😂
2:02 uwu what are you doing carp-san *blush *
No
"Boaters GENERALLY dislike being smacked in the face by large fish", this implies a minority that doesn't mind being slapped or even likes it.
what the 𝙁 𝙍 𝙄 𝘾 𝘾
9 of 10 boaters dislike being slapped by a fish.
@@x3non57 4 out of 5 dentists agree that 9 out of 10 boaters disliked being slapped my carp
Glad to know that this is what they take 30% of my paycheck for
$800 Million is pocket change in government money.
Lol
In France they take 60% of my paychecks for even more stupider stuffs. And our wages are way lower. So Americans shouldn't really complain.
800 millions $ to support a 20 billion $ industry is quite reasonnable.
There is no such thing as government money...it is all tax payer money...
@@uwu_senpai who wouldn’t complain about being taxed, though?
The shade in this video-
Good to know that America's spending is being well placed in creating cutting edge military technology like they say
We have a similar problem here in India. The government introduced water hyacinths thinking they are getting pretty flowers for cheap but they had no natural predators and sucked oxygen right out of rivers.
This channel is the definition of "alright it's almost 10 I should go to sleep soon"
3 AM:
The fish taser has been active for years.
According to the USGS Asian carp are actually quite tasty, just a lot of bony to work with. Set up a packing plant (or cat food factory) just downstream of the barrier and use them all up. You can even give them "carp blanche..."
I've already brought the Nebula subscription, but I'll always watch HAI videos on CZcams just to hear the smooth transitions from content to sponsorship 👌
Has anyone else watched Kyle Hill’s video on this exact same topic?
Am I the only one who paused the video just to read the original intro?
"4 out of 5 dentists agree that boats are bigger than carp" 🤣🤣
The "Slap to death by a fish" sounds like a fun way to die
Wait til you find out about white stuff overdose
keeping the principle of " learning by doing" in mind, I've come to the conclusion that we should not watch an HAI video while drinking coffee and in close proximity to the laptop. i opened it thinking its an educational video.
While bringing over a natural predator would wipe out the invasive species, there's a risk of driving out the native predators as well
We could owes just stop killing the large top predators for stupid reasons.considering far and large catfish can eat carp
Pokèmon was my favourite documentary as a kid as well, right up there with that documentary about a mermaid girl named Ariel
Humans: *use fish taser*
Aquaman: *TRIGGERED*
citizens: can you just support us more?
US government: Haha fish lazer goes BZZZBZBZBZBZ
edit: I meant tazer, but I think US government is capable of creating fish lazer
Frikin Lasers! I wish they would spend money on technology that has off shoots. Not just purpose made off the shelf tech. Why not have sentient robot muder fish. Why not have sharks with Lasers, neuralink and satellite hive mind connectivity. Why not have autonomous submarines with anti carp torpedoes.
Ok question: Suppose I was a creator of chaos and I stole some Asian carp from the Illinois river and I wanted to go over to Lake Michigan to create a carp apocalypse. What's stopping me? Are there any enforced laws that stop me?
Potentially a class action or regular lawsuit from the people who suffered financial losses, which may probably include all the great lake states, and they come after you for damages. They could also probably get a few million separate charges of property damage or reckless endangerment, maybe murder if the collapse of the great lakes economy results in some suicides considering you knowingly and maliciously did this.
Although it would be pretty much impossible to track down that it was you who did it (unless you leave a youtube comment about this plan like you just did)... The search area for potential suspects would basically be anyone in over a dozen states in the entire mississippi river basin, cross referenced with anyone in the 8 states bordering the great lakes, where they would have to have your vehicle and license plate tracked down across multiple state lines and potentially along thousands of miles of rural roads, and eliminate every other person traveling between the two watersheds.
All you really have to do is show up with a fishing pole somewhere along the mississippi and start catching, put them in a few buckets or tubs of water with an aerator and battery power supply to keep the fish alive and drive it over to the great lakes to dump em in. You can basically ruin hundreds of thousands of lives over the course of a weekend if you really wanted.
@@elegantbiscuit2771 Exactly, I'm not interested about the aftermath of what happens. I'm just a little confused that because of how simple it is why no one has done it yet. So I guess it's really that easy?
there are also fish and wildlife services in most of these states, that keep an eye on who has fishing licenses, how fish are large scale transported and other things. but really ther is no preventative force to stop you only retalitory, as if you are publically revealed as the perpetrator, you will have the residents of multiple states and canadian provinces at your throat.
Assuming anyone actually figured out it was you, I'm pretty sure ecoterrorism has crimes defined to cover pretty much anything you can do with the intent of damaging the environment (especially commercially important parts of the environment cause money).
* Edit: I mean non-sanctioned actions of course. If you can figure out how to make destroying the environment in that way profitable and get a license from.. somebody.. then freedom baby!
In the Suwanee River, boaters get smacked in the face by leaping sturgeon trying to attract mates for spawning. The sturgeon are considered endangered though (they are native and were very nearly wiped out for caviar).
There's already Asian Carps in the St. Lawrence river. They came either with ballast water or from the Great Lakes. Take your bids: yours are as good as mine.
Keep up your excellent work!
Steel what? “Electroids”? Are we taseing fish with Pokémon?
Edit: I paused the video and posted this before you referenced Pokémon 😂
Yo can you do an episode about the texas grid failure right now?
its basically a meme.
DFW area here: without power for 20+ hours on "Rolling blackouts"
As an automation and controls engineer who has been working 10 years in the aquaculture this is so interesting and you earn a new subscribed.
Couldn't they have created a large conveyor that sticks out of the water that can carry the boats along but leaves the fish, since they'd be in the open air and can be either removed manually or would suffocate. Some places already have a system like this for other reasons but it could be more effective and cheaper.
"Your hard-earned taxpayer dollars are being wisely spent" - Someone in the US government, 19th century
If it works then seems like a good investment.
5:11 " You pulse direct current through it "
Current that changes with time... Hmm, surely there must be a name for that
Yes. Pulsed DC current. AC current actually involves changing the polarity.
Every current is Pulsed DC or AC because they'll never last forever.
Justice for that gem of an intro
One of your best videos yet
Accordion to a recent study, 90% of the people didn’t realize i put an instrument at the start of this sentence (now I want my like) 01.05.21 15:33
I'm starting suspect that Wendover productions and Half as interesting are the same person.
You do realize that they ARE the same person, right? He just uses a more serious voice and less jokes on his Wendover videos.
Nooooo I don't think so
It is exactly the same person
3:38 I would like to have a word with the 1 out of 5 that disagree with that statement
"4 out of 5 dentists agree that boats are bigger than carps" the reamining one is probably Qui-Gon-Jin
Other Governments: Hey, we can use all this money to help hospitals get better equipment, and help schools get better materials!
USA: *Fish Taser*
I mean making sure an industry worth tens of billions of dollars doesn’t die is a pretty good use of money.
Sad Fact: In Africa, every 60 seconds a minute passes.
What can I do to stop this injustice?
That's not entirely accurate. Due to gravitational variances on the surface of the earth, time varies slightly. But then I think that is 'relative to the observer' so I guess it depends on whether you are located at that same place in Africa or not :-P
It’d still be true, since no matter how different the rate is, it’d still be 60s=1m.
Couldn’t they just electrocute the living hell out of the invasive carp instead of just driving them back?
I've heard about this being an issue of them almost being in 4-5 years ago, it would be hard to believe they aren't in already. Not that all the slaughter houses on the Kalamazoo River is already destroying Lake Michigan with all the pollution. Not to mention the breaking pipeline under the Mackinac Bridge.
1:08 so even in fish, there's always an asian better than you 🤣
Hey, you know you sound just like that guy from Wendover Productions?
He is the guy from Wendover productions
@@cypriotmappers5342 Do I need to whoooosh you?
You should do a video on fish ladders. And alternative methods to try to transport fish around dams.
"So what do you call a Fish with no Arms?"
*The little mermaid after a tragic boating accident*
Hi guys! :D I hope you stay safe and have a nice day, God bless you!
Im not first(although I am),
Im not last,
But most importantly,
NO ONE ASKED!
THANK YOU!!! NO ONE CARES IF YOU'RE FIRST!
I’m looking forward to all the Carp-centric programming on the new Wendover Productions. Things like “Don’t fall for that hook!!”, “Is the President actually a cat??”, and “1970 Carp State vs Bass U Highlight Reel” and of course lots of TikTok‘s about how this or that ‘slaps’, now that carp are in charge of slapping things.
THE CARPET CLEANER PUN THO LMAO
Have a good day!
Nope, I'm not one of those not accounts that asks for subs.
No, this is not a double bluff.
Just have a good day!
Ok
No its a bluff
@@kebabson3797 A triple bluff.
If you're reading this you have potential to create great things, you were put on this planet for greatness, remember that. Yes. You
Not me
Love the Kent Brockman joke! Keep 'em coming my guy!
As someone who lives along the Illinois River, I can confirm that fishe smak = big ouch
Me: wants to sleep
CZcams: "You wanna see a $800 million dollar fish taser?"
Me:
I literally listened to a radio podcast about this the other day
So if someone just comes and releases a few of the in the lake directly... all of that would be for nothing?
“Then I indeed welcome our new carp overlords”
Nice touch
Hey! I've been to that break wall! It's in Petoskey, Michigan. Fun times to be had there!
I imagine a carp passing the taser level would end up seeing the bubble field and turning back, but turning back means seeing the taser level again, so it turns back, then it sees the bubble field again so it turns back, but turning back means seeing the taser level again, so it turns back, but the bubble field...
"Makes you wonder why they aren't called American Carp" Fkn hilarious!!
This is so interesting, I drive past the Brandon Road bridge often. And it's a giant pile of trash. It hasn't been open in over a year. (This bridge being out doubles my commute, so I'm a bit bitter.) I hope they have plans to build a functional bridge with the lovely fish taser.
When you've seen so much CZcams you already know what the video was supposed to teach you
There were so many opportunities to reference early Dwarf Fortress in this, and yet none of them were taken.
I knew what this video was about before I even opened it! I work on a Mississippi River tow boat and I've been all the way up the Illinois River to the Chicago sanitation canal (Chicago dumped raw sewage into the CSC until the 1980s) . I've been through the electric fish barrier many times. Every time we pass through it the captain makes us get inside and close the doors...I doubt we could get shocked outside the boat but thats just policy.
Something you missed is the lock diagram you made had it flushing water out south bound and the boat and barges dropping and going north bound but north bound tows have to go UP for elevation increases so this flushing diagram you made doesn't work.
5:38 “I’d like to remind them that as a trusted CZcams personality I could be useful in the rounding of others”