Flying fish apocalipse

If you haven't seen one of the Asian jumping carp videos yet, take a look at this--the fish that makes ecological disaster fun!

Posted on youtube by dorlandtgroup at http://youtu.be/F37GA8I3gBQ.  

 I don't know where this was shot.  There are lots of jumping carp videos, from different parts of the Mississippi River basin, none from the Great Lakes--yet.  The fish is the silver carp, which has been introduced to and is well-established in the Mississippi and is working its way north. These aren't small fish; according to the Wikipedia entry, silver carp "can grow to over 40 lb (18 kg), and can leap 10 ft (3 m) in the air. Many boaters traveling in uncovered high-speed watercraft have been injured by running into the fish while at speed."

I can't stop watching these videos: they show dozens or hundreds of fish jumping, and people in open motorboats being pelted with fish.  I've seen one with a little kid standing in shallow water, surrounded by tiny jumping fish, and one with kids on water skis, in carp-hunting costumes, trying to hit fish with swords.  There are a couple of videos in which the guy holding the camera can't stop laughing, and in some the scene jolts once in a while as the cameraman is hit by a fish.

And, of course, the silver carp has a terrible effect on the environment.  I suppose the videos won't seem as funny if the fish ever get to the Sacramento River.