"By a sort of calculus, by examining and comparing good or evil in things, we must decide our course. Sometimes we will regard pleasure as an evil and pain as a good.
Independence of external things, too, we regard as a great good, not in order that we may always want to live frugally, but that we may be content to do so if we should have to. For we are convinced that those who need luxury least enjoy it most. Natural pleasures are easily gained; it is the useless ones which are costly. Simple food brings as much delight as rare and choice dishes, even when the edge of appetite is dulled, and bread and water bring the highest pleasure to one in need of real food…
When we assert that pleasure is the chief motive of life, we are not speaking of dissipation and intemperance, as some ignorant, prejudiced, or malicious people think. No; we mean the absence of discomfort in the body and disturbance in the soul. Wild revels and orgies, gorges of rich food, cannot produce a happy life; the soul can best be free itself from anxiety and tumult which haunt it by sober thought and searching out the reasons for its choices and rejections. Common sense is the beginning of this, and is the most valuable thing a man can have. It is more precious even than philosophy, for all the other virtues arrive from it. It shows that we cannot live happily unless we live with intelligence, honor and justice, and that we cannot live intelligently, honorably and justly without being happy. All the virtues merge in the happy life, which cannot be separated from them."
From “Letter to Hirodotus”, by Epicurus, Greece, 341-270 B.C.
THE BIGHEAD CARP IN FLORIDA
The USGS map shows the bighead carp to be present in Florida in Lake Okeechobee, and up in the panhandle.
(The USGS map for the bighead carp in Florida)
There is no Florida state record for the bighead carp.
If the bighead carp is established in Florida in both Lake Okeechobee and in the panhandle, and there are four examples of the bighead carp in the historical record in Florida, then where is there no Florida state record for the bighead carp?
In September 1989, the USGS claimed that the origin of the bighead carp in Florida was “released bait”. In 1994, the USGS claimed that the origin of the bighead carp in Deer Point Lake was “hitchhiker with stocked fish”. In March 2012, floridasportsman.com said that the origin of the bighead carp in the Mitchell River in the panhandle was “escapees from fish farms further north”. And, in August 2017, the USGS said that the origin of the bighead carp in the Choctawatchee River was “escaped captivity aquaculture/dispersed”.
Why did the USGS change the origin of the bighead carp from “released bait” in 1989 to “hitchhiker with stocked fish” in 1994 to “escaped captivity aquaculture” in 2017?
Why aren’t the examples of the plural fish farms stated by floridasportsman.com in 2012 or the “captivity aquaculture” stated by the USGS in 2017 documented in either case?
In February 2012, the bighead carp winked into existence in Florida in the Mitchell River, which is part of the Choctawatchee River delta, east of Destin, Florida. It weighed 57 pounds. Despite the fact that the weight was in the photo that he used in his article, its weight was obfuscated by floridasportsman.com’s Jeff Weakley. It would remain in existence there only briefly. In 2012, or soon after, the bighead carp disappeared from the Mitchell River, and remains absent from that location, or anywhere else in Florida, to this day.
If Craig Martin caught a bighead carp in the Mitchell River in Florida in 2012, why isn’t that fish the Florida state record bighead carp?
Why doesn’t the USGS table for the species include Craig Martin’s bighead carp from 2012, given that Bob Wattendorf of the Florida Wildlife Commission’s Freshwater Fisheries division is quoted in the article on the subject?
From 1989 to 2017, there are 5 examples of the bighead carp in Florida in the historical record.
1989 - a 22.6-inch bighead carp was caught in Lake Okeechobee - 1
1994 - a bighead carp was caught in Deer Point Lake on St. Andrew-St. Joseph bays - 1
2012 - Craig Martin caught a 57-pound bighead carp in the Mitchell River near Destin, Florida, in the panhandle - 1
2017 - a bighead carp was caught in Florida - 1
August 20, 2017 - a “very thin” bighead carp was caught in Mill Lake on the Lower Choctawatchee River - 1
From 1989 to 2017, 100%, or 4 of 4 of the USGS’s examples of the bighead carp in Florida do not contain a certified weight.
From 1989 to 2017, 100%, or 4 of 4 of the USGS’s examples of the bighead carp in Florida are not supported by media documentation.
From 1989 to 2017, 4 of 4, or 100% of the USGS’s examples of the bighead carp in Florida are fabricated.
There is just one documented example of the bighead carp in Florida in history, in 2012, in the Mitchell River.
Why doesn’t the USGS table for the bighead carp in Florida include Craig Martin’s 75-pound example from the Mitchell River in the pandle 2012?
Why isn’t Craig Martin’s bighead carp from 2012 the Florida state record bighead carp?
The USGS put a fabricated origin stories in place in 1989, in Lake Okeechobee, and then another in 1994, in Deer Point Lake, so that, when the bighead carp winked into existence in Florida at a later date, these plausible-deniability accounts would be in place to rebut it.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE EXAMPLES OF THE BIGHEAD CARP IN FLORIDA
September 1989 - a 22.6 inch bighead carp was caught in Lake Okeechobee near Palm Beach - False
This statement is false, given that no weight is provided, verified or otherwise, the angler’s name is not provided, the comments say “the fate of the specimen is unknown”, and the assertion is not backed up by any indepdendent media accounts.
August 1994 - a bighead carp was caught in Deer Point Lake on St. Andrew-St. Joseph bays - False
This statement is false, given that no weight or length is provided, that the name of the angler is not provided, that its potential pathway was the unverifiable “hitchhiker with stocked fish”, that said hitchhiker was not named, that the assertion is based upon unverifiable data from two different sources, and there are no media accounts documenting the claim.
March 2012 - Craig Martin caught a bighead carp near Destin, Florida, in the panhandle. It weighed 57 pounds. - True
This statement is true, given that there is a photograph of the fish being held by the angler, and because there is an independent media account to support it. However it is important to note that both the uncredited author from floridasportsman.com and Bob Wattendorf, of the FWC Freshwater Fisheries division both obfuscated the fish’s weight, despite the fact that Craig was photographed holding the bighead carp at a Marina.
(Craig Martin holding the bighead carp he caught in the Mitchell River in Florida in March 2012. It weighed 57 pounds, as you can see on the whiteboard behind him. Yet, somehow, floridasportsman.com’s Jeff Weakley omitted it from the article he wrote on the subject.)
In terms of the origin, floridasportsman.com said “They seem to be escapees from fish farms further north. Several past hurricanes have caused some of those farms to release fish.”
Here, there’s not even a date provided for the only-generally-described, fraudulent event which led to the bighead carp being in the environment in Florida.
In February 2012, the bighead carp winked into existence in Florida in the Mitchell River, which is part of the Choctawatchee River delta, east of Destin, Florida. It weighed 57 pounds. Despite the fact that the weight was in the photo in his article, its weight was obfuscated by floridasportsman.com’s Jeff Weakley. It would remain in existence there only briefly. In 2012, or soon after, the bighead carp disappeared from the Mitchell River, and remains absent from that location, or anywhere else in Florida, to this day.
2017, a bighead carp was caught in Florida - False
This statement is false, given that the account does not contain an example of the bighead carp, does not provide the name of the person who caught it, or where it was caught, and that there are no media accounts documenting the claim.
August 20, 2017 - a “very thin” bighead carp was caught in Mill Lake on the Lower Choctawatchee River - False
This statement is false, given that the account does not provide the weight of the bighead carp, does not provide the name of the person who caught it, the account is based on an unverified personal communication from an undocumented individual, that said individual provided a photograph of the bighead carp and the USGS withheld it, that the person from the USGS who verified it is not named, and that there are no media accounts documenting the claim.
THE BIGHEAD CARP IN FLORIDA - ALL THE DATA
In September 1989, a 22.6 inch bighead carp was caught on the Southeast side of Lake Okeechobee near Palm Beach, Florida. Its potential pathway was “released bait”. Its status is listed as “failed”.
The comments say “the fate of the specimen is unknown”. The verifier is JD Williams of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Why or how did the bighead carp fail to propagate in Lake Okeechobee, when it is doing great across China, and is also purportedly expanding across the United States as an “invasive species”?
Why doesn’t the investigating officer from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service not know what happened to this invasive, history-making bighead carp?
Why is there no weight provided? Why is the name of the person who caught this history-making fish not provided? Why are there no media accounts of this history-making catch, the first-ever in Florida?
Bighead carp are an extremely fast-growing species, reaching full size in three months.
Where did some unknown person acquire a juvenile bighead carp for use as bait sometime between July and September 1989?
Why does the USGS map for the bighead carp show it to be present in Lake Okeechobee, when only a single example of the bighead carp has ever been documented there, and that example contained no data whatsoever, other than length?
On August 29, 1994, a bighead carp was caught in Deer Point Lake on St. Andrew-St. Joseph bays. Its potential pathway was “hitchhiker with stocked fish”. This was asserted by the Florida Museum of Natural History in 2013 based upon their ichthyology collection, and also the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Database, also in 2013.
Can you see how two impressive-sounding, long-winded examples of the same fabricated account are used, to give the illusion of “depth”?
Why is there no weight or length provided for this example? Why is the angler’s name not provided?
How could the potential pathway of “hitchhiker with stocked fish” possibly be surmised or verified? Why isn’t that hitchhiker named?
On March 5, 2012, an uncredited author from floridasportsman.com said “Bob Wattendorf, of the FWC Freshwater Fisheries division, responds to the news item we posted last week, about angler Craig Martin’s bighead carp caught near Destin, Florida:
"One thing to note is we have observed a few large individual bigheads in panhandle rivers for several years—but no reproduction. They seem to be escapees from fish farms further north. Several past hurricanes have caused some of those farms to release fish.”
What specific fish farms, plural, allowed the gigantic, non-indigenous fish to break free? Which specific hurricanes? Where are the news stories to corroborate these major biological events?
It is the same threadbare cover story, used in state after state.
On February 28, 2012, floridasportsman.com questioned “What’s This, and What’s it Doing in Florida***?”***
Where author Jeff Weakley used the general “this” and “it” to avoid saying “bighead carp”.
That’s an example of the propaganda technique known as “compartmentalization”.
(Craig Martin, with the first-ever bighead carp in Florida, caught in the Mitchell River, part of the Choctawatchee River delta east of Destin, Florida.)
The hit-piece goes on to question “Is Martin’s bighead carp a holdover from the spillover in the 1990s***?*** Stay posted to the Fresh Water site this week as we piece together this mystery.”
Where “mystery” is an example of the propaganda technique known as “stonewalling”.
In February 2012, Craig Martin caught a bighead carp in the Mitchell River in Florida. It weighed 57 pounds. You can see it on the white board behind Craig in the photo above. Despite the fact that the photo is from his article, its weight was obfuscated by floridasportsman.com’s Jeff Weakley.
The Mitchell River is part of the Choctawatchee River delta, east of Destin, Florida.
If Florida is part of the range of the bighead carp, as alleged by the USGS, and Craig Martin caught a bighead carp in the Mitchell River in Florida’s panhandle in 2012, then why isn’t Martin’s bighead carp the Florida state record?
In February 2012, the bighead carp winked into existence in Florida in the Mitchell River, which is part of the Choctawatchee River delta, east of Destin, Florida. It weighed 57 pounds. Despite the fact that the weight was in the photo used in his article, floridasportsman.com’s Jeff Weakley omitted it. It would remain in existence there only briefly. In 2012, or soon after, the bighead carp disappeared from the Mitchell River, and remains absent from that location, or anywhere else in Florida, to this day.
In 2017, a bighead carp of unstated weight and length caught by an unidentified person in an undocumented location in Florida, that is, at least according to a generational Satanist Freemason named Nico and his unnamed colleagues in 2018, and seconded by the U.S. Department of Fish and Game in June 2018.
When, in fact, there is just one example of the bighead carp in the historical record, that being a 57-pound specimen caught in the Mitchell River, part of the Choctawatchee River delta east of Destin, Florida by Craig Martin. Which specimen is not, for some unexplained reason, the Florida state record bighead carp.
There is, in fact, no Florida state record carp, despite the fact that Craig Martin caught a big one in 2012, and further despite the fact that the USGS map for the bighead carp shows the bighead carp to be present in Florida in the Okeefenokee Swamp, and up in the panhandle.
The Mitchell River is in the panhandle.
The claim that a bighead carp was caught in Florida in 2017 is false.
I have exposed the duplicity of a generational Satanist named Nico, the USGS and the U.S. Department of Fish and Game by using what was known in the old days as “fact checking”.
On August 20, 2017, a single bighead carp was caught in Mill Lake on the Lower Choctawatchee River. It’s potential pathway was listed as “escaped captivity aquaculture/dispersed”. The comments say “verified by photo. Very thin fish.” The record type is “personal communication”. The status is listed as “unknown”.
Why does the USGS’s example of the bighead carp in 1989 show a potential pathway of “released bait”, while their example from August 2017 states “escaped captivity aquaculture”? How were those two determinations made?
Why isn’t there a weight listed for this 2017 example, or an angler? Why did the scientist writing the table entry use a specific weight, vs. the general “very thin fish”?
Why isn’t the person who made the “personal communication” documented by name?
Why isn’t the photo attached, when the USGS website supports photos?
Why doesn’t the USGS, a scientific organization, know the status of the bighead carp in the Choctawatchee River?
Jeff Miller, Honolulu, HI, May 7, 2024
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