“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.”
- Major General George S. Patton, Jr.
(Major General George S. Patton, 1943?)
(Jeff Miller, Brooklyn, New York, 2020)
To say that this work is painstaking is an understatement. I’d say I have five full days of effort into my research on the bighead carp, and have just completed Alabama, the first of twenty seven states which are purported to constitute the range of the bighead carp.
I’ll publish each state as I go, and then pin the master article here on the UK Orgones Forum when the research on the species is complete.
ALABAMA
At this writing in May 2024, there are significant areas in Alabama on the USGS map which claim to be part of the range of the bighead carp.
(USGS map of the bighead carp in Alabama)
It is purported that the bighead carp in Alabama traveled there from an unnamed aquaculture facility in Arkansas from whence it escaped sometime in the 1970’s.
From 1984 to 2022, there are 30 examples of the bighead carp in Alabama in the historical record.
August 25, 1984 - One juvenile bighead carp, 1 pound, 5 ounces, Yates Reservoir.
No angler, no media documentation.
May 1985 - Three juvenile bighead carp, 14.4 pounds average, Yates Reservoir.
No angler, no media documentation.
March 7, 1992 - One bighead carp.
No weight, no angler, no location, no media documentation.
October 2003 - One bighead carp, Alabama River, at Millers Ferry Lock and Dam.
No weight, no media documentation.
July 1, 2004 - One bighead carp, 45 to 50 pounds, Tennessee River.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
July 20, 2004 - One bighead carp, 85 pounds, Tennessee River at Guntersville Lake.
No angler, no media documentation.
April 2005 - Two bighead carp, Dempolis Lake.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
2007 - One bighead carp in Alabama.
No location, no date, no weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2007 - One bighead carp, Choctaw Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2007 - One bighead carp, Dixon Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2007 - One bighead carp, Soapstone Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
March 2, 2007 - One bighead carp, Demopolis Lake.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2008 - One bighead carp, Choctaw Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2008 - One bighead carp, Soapstone Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2010 - One bighead carp, Choctaw Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2010 - One bighead carp, Dixon Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2010 - One bighead carp, Soapstone Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2011 - One bighead carp, Choctaw Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2011 - One bighead carp, Dixon Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2011 - One bighead carp, Soapstone Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2012 - One bighead carp, Choctaw Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2012 - One bighead carp, Dixon Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2012 - One bighead carp, Soapstone Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2012 - One bighead carp, Choctaw Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
January 1, 2013 - One bighead carp, Dixon Creek.
No weight, no angler, no media documentation.
March 16, 2022 - Two bighead carp, 1 female at 78.9 pounds and 52 inches, and one male at 93 pounds and 56.3 inches, Guntersville Lake. No anglers, no media documentation.
From 1984 to 2022, 25 of 30, or 83% of the examples of the bighead carp in Alabama do not contain a weight.
From 1984 to 2022, 30 of 30, or 100% of the examples of the bighead carp in Alabama are not supported by media documentation.
From 1984 to 2022, 30 of 30, or 100% of the examples of the bighead carp in Alabama are fabricated.
The USGS’s claim that Alabama is part of the range of the bighead carp is false.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EXAMPLES OF THE BIGHEAD CARP IN ALABAMA
On August 25, 1984, an unidentified angler caught a 1 pound, 5 ounce juvenile, stated to be “151-350 mm average” in length, at Yates Reservoir in Alabama, according to the USGS’s Malcom Pierson.
This statement is false, given that the angler is not identified, there are no media accounts documenting the claim, and the example is based upon a “personal communication”.
In May 1985, three juvenile bighead carp averaging 14.4 pounds in weight were caught at Yates Reservoir in Alabama, according to an unidentified person in a personal communication to an unidentified person at the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the angler is not identified, there are no media accounts documenting the claim, and the example is based upon a “personal communication”.
On March 7, 1992 an unidentified angler caught a bighead carp whose weight was not identified in a location which was not identified. It was then placed in a museum which was not identified, with a museum specimen number of UAIC 10289.02. That according to the USGS’s H.C. Borschung.
This statement is false, given that the angler is not identified, the location of the catch is not identified, the museum is not identified, and that museum specimen number UAIC 10289.02 is from the University of Arizona Insect Collection.
Sometime prior to 1996, the bighead carp was stocked in the Black Warrior drainage “for biocontrol”, according to M.F. Mettee, P.E. O’Neil, and J.M. Pierson in “Fishes of the Alabama and Mobile Basin” in 1996, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that there are no media accounts documenting this assertion, and that there has never been a single example of the bighead carp documented in the Black Warrior drainage. It is a completely baseless assertion.
In 1996, the status of the bighead carp in the Black Warrior drainage was “failed”, according to M.F. Mettee, P.E. O’Neil, and J.M. Pierson in “Fishes of the Alabama and Mobile Basin” in 1996, per the USGS.
This assertion is false, given that the “stocking for biocontrol” did not, in fact, take place.
In May 1998, the bighead carp was “established” in Bear Creek on Pickwick Lake in Alabama, according to the USGS.
This statement is false, given that there are no documented examples of the bighead carp in Bear Creek on Pickwick Lake in Alabama. In fact, at this writing in 2024, there have never been any documented examples of the bighead carp anywhere in Alabama.
In 2003, the bighead cod was “established” in the Tennessee River, in Wilson Lake below Wheeler Dam, and its source was “escaped captivity aquaculture”. That according to C.S. Kolar, D.C. Chapman, W.R. Courtenay, Jr., C.M. Housel, J.D. Williams, and D.P. Jennings in their “Bigheaded carps - A biological synopsis and environmental risk assessment”, an American Fisheries Society Special Publication from 2007.
This statement is false, given there are no documented examples of the bighead carp in Wilson Lake. In fact, at this writing in 2024, there have never been any documented examples of the bighead carp anywhere in Alabama.
In October 2003, a bighead carp was caught in a lock chamber in the Alabama River, at Millers Ferry Lock and Dam, and preserved by the Geological Survey of Alabama. That according to a “personal communication” from some unknown person to some other unknown person at the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the weight of the fish is not documented, the name of the person who caught it is not documented, there are no media accounts to substantiate the claim, and it is based upon an unverifiable “personal communication”.
On July 1, 2004, a 45-to-50-pound bighead carp was caught in the Tennessee River in Florence just below A TVA dam [Wilson Dam], according to the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught it is not documented, its weight is an estimate, and there are no media accounts documenting this catch.
On July 20, 2004, an 85-pound, bow fishing world record bighead carp was caught in an unnamed tributary of the Tennessee River at Guntersville Lake. Its potential pathway was “escaped captivity aquaculture”. That according to the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, its weight is an estimate, and that there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On some undocumented date in April 2005, two bighead carp were “collected” in the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Demopolis Lake, Tombigbee Arm) downstream of Howell Heflin Dam in Gainesville and upstream of the Black Warrior River mouth [in Demopolis], per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and that there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2007, a bighead carp was caught in Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2007, a bighead carp was caught in the in Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2007, a bighead carp was caught in Soapstone Creek on the upper Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On March 2, 2007, a bighead carp was caught in the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Demopolis Lake, Tombigbee Arm) just W of Birdine. The table entry is accompanied by this picture:
(This photo is from the USGS table for the bighead carp in Alabama. It purports to show Dan O’Keefe of Michigan Sea Grant with a bighead carp of undocumented weight and length, Alabama, 2007.)
Below the picture, it says “Dan O’Keefe, Michigan Sea Grant”.
Despite managing to get a picture of the fish, and of Dan O’Keefe, the person whom we presumed caught it, there is no weight or length listed for this example of the bighead carp in Alabama.
Dan is from Michigan, and works for the Michigan Sea Grant, and writes for the University of Michigan extension.
Now here’s a picture of Dan from a scholarly presentation which he prepared on March 4, 2014, entitled “Asian Carp and the Chicago Area Waterways”, by Dan O’Keefe, Ph.D., Michigan Sea Grant, MSU extension. The photo is directly under the title:
(The same picture of Dan O’Keefe, Ph. D. that the USGS used for a bighead carp from Alabama from 2007 was used by Dan directly under the heading “Asian Carps, two filter feeding species in Illinois” in a presentation he made in March, 2014)
Propaganda doesn’t do very well under cross-examination, does it?
Whether the picture documents Dan with a bighead carp in Alabama or Michigan we cannot know.
The USGS’s claim that a bighead carp was caught in Demopolis Lake on March 2, 2007 is false, given that no weight or length is provided, and that there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2008, a bighead carp was caught in the Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2008, a bighead carp was caught in Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2008, a bighead carp was caught in the Soapstone Creek on the upper Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2010, a bighead carp was caught in the Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2010, a single bighead carp was caught in the Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2010, a bighead carp was caught in the Soapstone Creek on the upper Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2011, the a bighead carp was caught in the Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2011, a bighead carp was caught in the Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2011, a bighead carp was caught in the Soapstone Creek on the upper Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2012, a bighead carp was caught in the Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2012, a bighead carp was caught in the Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2012, a bighead carp was caught in the Soapstone Creek on the upper Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2013, the USGS table for the species alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On January 1, 2013, a bighead carp was caught in the Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the person who caught the fish is not identified, no weight or length is provided, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
On March 16, 2022, two bighead carp were caught in Guntersville Lake, Alabama, 1 female at 78.9 pounds and 52 inches, and one male at 93 pounds and 56.3 inches, per the USGS.
This statement is false, given that the people who caught the fish are not identified, and there are no media accounts supporting the claim.
THE BIGHEAD CARP IN ALABAMA - ALL THE DATA
On August 25,1984, the USGS table for the bighead carp in Alabama asserts that a Malcom Pierson confirmed through “personal communication” that a single, 600-gram bighead carp had been caught in cove 279 of the Yates Reservoir on the Soughahatchee Creek in Alabama. It was purported to be “151-350 mm ave”, and to have “escaped captivity aquaculture.”
Where “151-350 mm ave” is a spectacular fail on the part of the uncredited Intelligence operative writing the copy at the USGS.
A single fish cannot have a length that is an average.
The sudden appearance of an “invasive”, albeit juvenile bighead carp in a state where it had never been documented previously is not a small matter. It would have been reported in the news.
How was this juvenile bighead carp caught? By whom? What larger, undocumented bighead carp gave birth to it?
It is threadbare, ridiculous propaganda, the first of many planks laid down here in Alabama to convince the rubes in the Punch and Judy tent that the bighead carp is established throughout Alabama.
On May 1985, a personal communication from an undocumented person to another undocumented person at Alabama Game and Fish stated that three bighead carp were caught in the Yates Reservoir on the Soughahatchee Creek in Alabama. They were purported to be “19629 g; 376-400 mm TL”.
I’m going to need to beg the reader to recall that this data is reported by a scientific organization.
Does “19629 grams” mean that the three examples weighed nineteen thousand grams and change? For the record, 19,629 grams is 43.3 pounds.
And that would be 14.4 pounds, which is extremely small. 400 grams is 15.7 inches. A sixteen inch fish would weigh 14.4 pounds, not 43.3 pounds.
Does “376-400 mm total length” mean that all three lengths added up to that only-general total? Or does it mean that the three specimens ranged in length from 376 mm to 400 mm?
Whatever the case, they are three juvenile bighead carp.
The sudden appearance of a juvenile three juvenile bighead carp in a state where only one example had ever been documented previously is not a small matter. It would be reported in the news.
How was this juvenile bighead carp caught? By whom? What larger, undocumented bighead carp gave birth to it?
This undocumented claim is hearsay, it is not substantiated.
On March 7, 1992, the USGS table for the species in Alabama states that a single bighead carp was caught and placed in a museum collection, however that museum was not named, and, in regard to where it was caught, the table says only “exact location not specified”, Tuscaloosa fish ponds, upper Black Warrior. The verifier is listed as H.T. Borschung.
The museum catalog number of the unnamed museum is listed as UAIC 10289.02.
Well, you cannot make this shit up, but that appears to be the University of Arizona Insect Collection.
Propaganda really does not do well under cross-examination, does it?
In 1996, in “Fishes of the Alabama and Mobile Basin”, M.F. Mettee, P.E. O’Neil, and J.M. Pierson said that the bighead carp had been “stocked for biocontrol” in the Black Warrior drainage on some unstated prior date, however that the status of the bighead carp in the Black Warrior drainage was “failed”.
What does “stocked for biocontrol” even mean? And how did we get from there to “invasive” thirty or so years later?
Given that the source of the bighead carp in Alabama in 1984 and 1985 is stated to be “escaped captivity aquaculture”, who began stocking the bighead carp (for “biocontrol”) sometime between 1985 and 1996?
How many were stocked? By whom?
It’s made up, faux-science bullshit, put forward as part of the larger body of fabricated “evidence” if the existence of the bighead carp in Alabama, which is being laid down so that, when the bighead carp actually does wink into existence in Alabama, the Intellectual can nod wisely and say “oh, that must be a straggler from that biocontrol stocking effort in the Black Warrior drainage spoken of by Mettee, O’Neill and Pierson in 1996, and corroborated by the USGS.”
In May 1998, the USGS table for the species documents a single example of the bighead carp in Bear Creek on Pickwick Lake in Alabama, and states that the species is “established” in the Bear River drainage.
However, there is no weight or length provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not mentioned. That, coupled with the fact that there are no media accounts of this catch, lead us to conclude that this table entry is fabricated.
I have exposed the duplicity of the USGS by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
In 2003, the USGS table puts forward the assertion that the bighead carp was established in Alabama in the Tennessee River, in Wilson Lake below Wheeler Dam, as documented in “Bigheaded carps - A biological synopsis and environmental risk assessment”, an American Fisheries Society Special Publication from 2007 by C.S. Kolar, D.C. Chapman, W.R. Courtenay, Jr., C.M. Housel, J.D. Williams, and D.P. Jennings, and that its source was “escaped captivity aquaculture”.
It is a completely baseless claim, put forth by a chain of generational Satanist Freemasons in a “What To Think” scientific publication. They figured that none of the rubes in the Punch and Judy tent would never fact check it.
Jack Reacher: (pay phone ringing) MP’s are on the way now. If it were up to me, I’d just kill you. It’s just going to keep on ringing.
Sheriff Wood: (Answers phone) Sheriff Raymond Wood. (To Reacher) Who the hell are you?
Jack Reacher: The guy you didn’t count on.
From the film “Jack Reacher, Never Go Back”, written by Edward Zwick, 2016
On an undocumented date in October 2003, the USGS table for the species purports that a personal communication from some unknown person to some unknown person purported that a single bighead carp was caught in a lock chamber Alabama River at Millers Ferry Lock and Dam [William Dannelly Reservoir just W of Millers Ferry, AL, and that, further, the specimen was preserved by the Geological Survey of Alabama. Yet, despite that rigor, neither the unidentified informant nor the Geological Survey of Alabama nor the USGS could manage to document a length or weight for the specimen, nor name the person who caught it.
It’s completely fabricated.
On July 1, 2004, the USGS table for the bighead carp states that a bighead carp was caught in the Tennessee River in Florence just below A TVA dam [Wilson Dam], and that it weighed “~45-50 lbs”. There is, however, no mention of who caught it, or how they caught it.
There are no media accounts documenting this catch. A 50-pound, “invasive” bighead carp is huge, alarm-bell-ringing news.
This is yet another fabricated account.
On some unsubstantiated, unmentioned date in 2004, the USGS claims that a dead bighead carp was found in the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Demopolis Lake, Tombigbee Arm) downstream of Howell Heflin Dam in Gainesville and upstream of the Black Warrior River mouth [in Demopolis], by an undocumented person. The fish was of a length and weight that neither the person who caught it nor the USGS could manage to document. Its source was listed as “escaped captivity aquaculture”.
This completely unsubstantiated claim is false.
On July 20, 2004, the USGS table for the species alleges that an 85-pound bighead carp was caught by some unidentified individual in an unnamed creek near Scottsboro, Alabama (a tributary of the Tennessee River at Guntersville Lake), that it was a bow fishing world record, and that it “escaped captivity aquaculture”.
Since catching a world record of any type of fish is a great big deal, we know that a broad claim such as this which does not include a media account supporting it is necessarily a fabrication, part of a larger body of false evidence cobbled together to suggest that the bighead carp is extant in Alabama, when, in fact, there are no documented examples of the bighead carp in Alabama.
In 2007, a bighead carp was reported in Alabama, that is, at least according to a generational Satanist Freemason named Nico and other unnamed colleagues in 2018, seconded by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in June 2018.
When, in fact, there is no record of any bighead carp being caught in Alabama, in 2007, or in any other year.
The claim that the bighead carp was reported in Alabama in 2007 is false.
I have exposed the duplicity of a generational Satanist Freemason named Nico and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
On some undocumented date in April 2005, the USGS table for the species alleges that two bighead carp were “collected” in the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Demopolis Lake, Tombigbee Arm) downstream of Howell Heflin Dam in Gainesville and upstream of the Black Warrior River mouth [in Demopolis]. However, despite the fact that they are a scientific organization, the USGS omitted the weight and length of the specimen, along with who “collected” them, and how.
As you may recall, generality is a hallmark of propaganda.
On January 1, 2007, the USGS table alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
On January 1, 2007, the USGS table alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
On January 1, 2007, the USGS table alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Soapstone Creek on the upper Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
Can you see how, in the three examples immediately above, the unidentified Intelligence operative from the USGS has simply copied and pasted the claim from creek to creek? And how they haven’t even bothered to change the date?
I have exposed the duplicity of the USGS by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
On March 2, 2007, the USGS table for the species documents that a single bighead carp was caught in the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway (Demopolis Lake, Tombigbee Arm) just W of Birdine. The table entry is accompanied by this picture:
(This photo is from the USGS table for the bighead carp in Alabama. It purports to show Dan O’Keefe of Michigan Sea Grant with a bighead carp of undocumented weight and length, Alabama, 2007.)
Below the picture, it says “Dan O’Keefe, Michigan Sea Grant”.
Despite managing to get a picture of the fish, and of Dan O’Keefe, the person whom we presumed caught it, there is no weight or length listed for this example of the bighead carp in Alabama.
Dan is from Michigan, and works for the Michigan Sea Grant, and writes for the University of Michigan extension.
Now here’s a picture of Dan from a scholarly presentation which he prepared on March 4, 2014, entitled “Asian Carp and the Chicago Area Waterways”, by Dan O’Keefe, Ph.D., Michigan Sea Grant, MSU extension:
(The same picture of Dan O’Keefe, Ph. D. that the USGS used for a bighead carp from Alabama from 2007 was used by Dan directly under the heading “Asian Carps, two filter feeding species in Illinois” in a presentation he made in March, 2014)
Propaganda doesn’t do very well under cross-examination, does it?
On January 1, 2008, the USGS table alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
On January 1, 2008, the USGS table alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
On January 1, 2008, the USGS table alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Soapstone Creek on the upper Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
Can you see how, in the three examples immediately above, the unidentified Intelligence operative from the USGS has simply copied and pasted the claim from creek to creek? And how they haven’t even bothered to change the date?
I have exposed the duplicity of the USGS by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
On January 1, 2010, the USGS table for the species alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
On January 1, 2010, the USGS table for the species alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
On January 1, 2010, the USGS table alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Soapstone Creek on the upper Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
Can you see how, in the three examples immediately above, the unidentified Intelligence operative from the USGS has simply copied and pasted the claim from creek to creek? And how they haven’t even bothered to change the date?
I have exposed the duplicity of the USGS by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
On January 1, 2011, the USGS table for the species alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
On January 1, 2011, the USGS table for the species alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
On January 1, 2011, the USGS table alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Soapstone Creek on the upper Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
Can you see how, in the three examples immediately above, the unidentified Intelligence operative from the USGS has simply copied and pasted the claim from creek to creek? And how they haven’t even bothered to change the date?
I have exposed the duplicity of the USGS by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
On January 1, 2012, the USGS table for the species alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
On January 1, 2012, the USGS table for the species alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
On January 1, 2012, the USGS table alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Soapstone Creek on the upper Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
Can you see how, in the three examples immediately above, the unidentified Intelligence operative from the USGS has simply copied and pasted the claim from creek to creek? And how they haven’t even bothered to change the date?
I have exposed the duplicity of the USGS by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
On January 1, 2013, the USGS table for the species alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Choctaw Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
On January 1, 2013, the USGS table for the species alleges that a single bighead carp was caught in the Dixon Creek on the Alabama River, according to the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health’s EDDMapS: Early detection and distribution mapping system, published by the University of Georgia in 2019, and verified by the US Army Corps of Engineers Ombil Database. However no weight or length for the specimen is provided, and the name of the person who caught it is not provided, and there are no media accounts substantiating the patently false claim.
Can you see how, in the two examples immediately above, the unidentified Intelligence operative from the USGS has simply copied and pasted the claim from creek to creek? And how they haven’t even bothered to change the date?
I have exposed the duplicity of the USGS by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
On December 29, 2017, outdooralabama.com said “Carp Species Potential Threats to Alabama Waterways”. They’ve published that so that, momentarily, when the gigantic carp begin winking into existence in Alabama, the Coincidence theorist can say “see, I told you, I read it in Outdoor Alabama.”
Author David Rainer used the general “carp species”, then goes on to say that they’re all, er, invading, but he doesn’t know when.
The article goes on to say “The bighead carp came to the states in the 1970s. The bighead is a filter feeder that collects primarily zooplankton for sustenance. (Fisheries Section Chief Nick) Nichols said bighead can weigh 80 pounds or more.” Can you see how Fisheries Section Chief Nick Nichols backed the size of the bighead carp back down by about 20%?
That is an example of the propaganda technique known as “compartmentalization”.
Outdoor Alabama’s David Rainer said that “the bighead carp came to the states in the 1970’s”, which make it seem as if the gigantic carp did it all by itself.
It is a completely general, bald-faced Lie.
Who brought it? When? In what numbers? Placed in what locations?
Propaganda doesn’t do very well under cross-examination, I’m afraid.
On March 16, 2022, the USGS claims that two bighead carp were caught by “a commercial gillnet fisher” in Guntersville Lake, Alabama. “1 female at 1321 mm and 35.8 kg; 1 male at 1429 mm and 42.2 kg.”
The fact that the fisher is not identified, and that there are no media accounts documenting this stunning documentation of this “invasive” species underscore that this is a fictitious table entry.
At this writing in May 2024, there are significant areas in Alabama on the USGS map which claim to be part of the range of the bighead carp.
However, there is no Alabama state record bighead carp. In fact, there are no examples of the bighead carp in Alabama for which weights are provided and for which supporting media documentation exists.
Why does the USGS map claim that Alabama is part of the range of the bighead carp when there are, in fact, no documented examples of the bighead carp in Alabama?
It is an example of the “Big Lie” so favored by Hitler, Goebbels and small-town Mayors the world over.
I have exposed the duplicity of the USGS by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
Jeff Miller, Honolulu, HI, May 3, 2024
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