Before deciding to spend the money to do this we researched whether any large lakes or reservoirs had already done something similar to record grass carp movements and we couldn't find any studies. Ball Pond is too small for a study like this and there are grass carp over all of the pond even though we stock only at the boat launch. So this should be interesting.
Good question, I don't have an update but tomorrow I am with the DEP biologist that does the grass carp program and I will ask her. I can also send an email to the CLA. So let me see what I can find out.
I sent an email to the CLA and this is the reply I got from Larry Marsicano. I had asked about mapping the milfoil to get an assessment of the bio-mass this year and the status of the tracking of carp movement. Dora is a biology professor at WestConn and is running the fish tracking program. The links are clickable or you can copy/paste them into your address line and get the tracking maps.
The CAES folks will start mapping the milfoil in August as they have for the last seven or eight years. We have had success tracking fish. I'm providing below some links to maps showing the movement of some of the fish we have found. Dora has been tied up for the last couple of weeks but will be getting out again regularly soon. Let us know if you want to join us one day. Yes... let's touch base next week some time.
New maps. There have been some really impressive movements by some of these carp. A couple of fish stocked up in Sherman have made it down to the Danbury Town Park. Others have gone from Sherman into the New Milford arm. I would not have predicted this kind of movement.
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