[Delawareriver]

And for the guys wondering what we do with our carp, my team first gives them away to guys wanting to eat them, have several different guys that will take between 1 and 10 carp every time we call, the rest typically are given to a farmer who feeds his pigs with them, but sometimes he also adds them to his compost pile. They add a ton of nutrients to the soil. We have also given them away to commercial turtle trappers, crabbers, shark chum, coyote and bear bait, catfisherman for cut bait. Really endless uses. End of the day we take every carp we put in the boat.

I have told several carp anglers that have complained about dumped carp and will open it to anyone on this forum, if you guys find dumped carp at a boat launch, fishing access, side of the road etc please take a picture and contact me with the location and date. I am highly active in the bowfishing community, I am on the board of directors for the bowfishing association of America and currently filling the nj state rep as the last guy had to step down due to family obligations. Trust me if anyone cares about illegal bowfishing activity it is the legal bowfisherman that strive for good promotion of the sport. Anyways I've still never received a picture or location of any dumped carp in nj. Not saying it doesn't happen but we have all seen trash left behind by rod and reel anglers, seen guys trespassing, heard of guys keeping undersized fish or out of season or over their limit. My point is every sport has a few bad apples but as a whole the bowfishing community strives at taking care of our sport. If it means talking with individuals and explaining what they did wrong and why, black listing them so they can't join any tournaments, buy sell ask questions with other local guys or turning them in to a co. We do what it takes to solve the problem. I know several areas down south that had some scum bags dumping fish at boat launches after taking pictures, well the bowfishing community in that area set up stings, placed trail cameras, placed signs to name a few examples of guys working at correcting the few bad apples