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Originally Posted by Aquaholic

Something along these lines.....You will not be able to transport bait from the body of water it was caught in. In other words, if you caught bait at the steam plant, you cant put it in your bait tank, take it home to your home bait tank. The motivating factor is to combat the spread of Asian carp. The locks being a bigger concern than bait tanks but their true objective, is keeping Asian Carp out JPP, Center Hill, Dale Hollow, Tim’s Ford and other reservoirs the Asian Carp can’t enter through locks. They say it’s a safety issue - largely a recreational boating safety issue. Also, I’m told this applies to shad and shad only...not skipjack, trout, suckers, creek minnows, shiners. There is also talk of investing $millions in sound barriers at the lock to prevent the asian carp from congregating around the lock and locking through to another body of water.

TWRA will hold a public meeting this Thursday May 24th at 6:30 p.m. in the Enoch Building located within the Henry County Fairgrounds at 517 Royal Oaks Drive in Paris. “We will present an update on Asian carp and the agency’s involvement in control strategies, but we will also be talking about local sport fisheries in general,” said Frank Fiss, the Chief of TWRA’s Fisheries Division.
Tim Broadbent, a long-time TWRA biologist and manager, who has spent much of his career surveying fish populations in Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, will accompany Fiss as the agency’s spokesmen.
“There are four species of non-native Asian carp that have populated Tennessee’s waterways,” noted Fiss. “We will present updates of our current research efforts and control measures.”

These dang fish sure cause people a lot of headache.