# Jacques Cousteau and French Kill Ocean, Destroy World **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 15, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909 "2004-12-15T02:29:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![InkBlot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5e925/32.png) [@InkBlot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InkBlot)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/41 "2004-12-15T14:59:41Z")
So, basically we’re talking about underwater Kudzu? InkBlot :eek: ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/42 "2004-12-15T15:14:59Z")
“Killer weed” that turns **Scylla** into an environmentalist? Gotta be a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![5que](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/3bc359/32.png) [@5que](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5que)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/43 "2004-12-15T16:38:59Z")
> [@Metacom](#): > > This is the wrong tact. It needs to be marketed as a hip, new-age treatment, not a Quicky-Mart confection. It’s kinda like a weed, eh? Call Woody Harrelson! I bet we can smok…, er, make clothing out of it. Yeah, that’s the ticket! ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/44 "2004-12-15T16:40:21Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#): > > Am I supposed to call the Cook County Sheriff’s office? No, the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/45 "2004-12-15T16:47:43Z")
**elucidator** or **DtC** how is the battle with Eurasian Milfoil going in Minnesota? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/46 "2004-12-15T16:52:50Z")
We have definitely turned the corner, and can see light at the end of the tunnel. But, serioiusly, folks…don’t know that much about it. Seems to be a problem more in snarling up motors on motorboats, so a problem for other people, which is almost as good as no problem at all. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/47 "2004-12-15T17:54:28Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > No, the Greater Chicago Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. Duh. Speaking of snakefish and giant Chinese carp, why don’t we just make it open season on them? I haven’t seen a species yet that American sportsmen couldn’t wipe out given just a little encouragement. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/48 "2004-12-15T18:33:38Z")
Hey, I knew the French government weren’t environmentalists when they sank the _Rainbow Warrior_ and murdered a photojournalist who was aboard. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/49 "2004-12-15T19:06:46Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Speaking of snakefish and giant Chinese carp, why don’t we just make it open season on them? I haven’t seen a species yet that American sportsmen couldn’t wipe out given just a little encouragement. That’s exactly the case with the snakeheads in the Potomac River. The enviro officials are warmly encouraging all the fishing derbies they can, and the fishermen’s clubs are giving prizes for any snakeheads caught. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/50 "2004-12-15T19:33:54Z")
> [@Ms Boods](#): > > Do they have any moistened bints on the payroll? Yeah, but they were arrested for sword-throwing. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/51 "2004-12-15T19:46:08Z")
> [@Michael Ellis](#): > > Have you ever seen a zebra mussel and this killer weed stuff in the same room? Hey, let’s not badmouth zebra mussels! Sure, they contribute to the decline of some aquatic ecosystems, but they sometimes do some good. Take Oneida Lake, the largest lake completely within New York State. It used to be so excessively eutrophic that swimming and cottaging (in the clean meaning, you pervs! ;)) were on the decline, and boating was not growing despite its being the nearest lake to rapidly expanding urban areas. Then the zebra mussels moved in – and began eating the algae like teenage boys turned loose in a Ponderosa all-you-can-eat buffet. Now the lake is much clearer, but with adequate unicellular and multicellular algae to keep the ecosystem going – thanks to the evil zebra mussels! I have a feeling a goby or loach is going to evolve fairly soon (and I’m talking years, not centuries) that thrives on Caulerpa! BTW, anybody heard of any outbreaks of Caulerpa near R’lyeh? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/52 "2004-12-15T19:53:18Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > how is the battle with Eurasian Milfoil going in Minnesota? It’s slowed, but it still pops up in about ten lakes a year. attempts at erradication are actually progrssing. Shit, at least the stuff doesn’t emit poison. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/53 "2004-12-15T20:15:07Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Now the lake is much clearer, but with adequate unicellular and multicellular algae to keep the ecosystem going – thanks to the evil zebra mussels! I stopped eating filter feeders when a buddy told of how he can now see 30 feet (9 meters) down in Lake Michigan thanks to them. I don’t want to eat what used to be murking up the world’s water. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/54 "2004-12-15T20:22:22Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > I stopped eating filter feeders when a buddy told of how he can now see 30 feet (9 meters) down in Lake Michigan thanks to them. I don’t want to eat what used to be murking up the world’s water. Do you still eat lobster? Or catfish? All bottom feeders subsist on stuff that you, I, or even your _dog_ would turn up a nose at. Sorry, in my opinion, this is a no-go argument. Face it, a lot of what we eat from the ocean is processed gunk. (Processed biologically, but not too long ago it was shit and dead, stinking corpses.) ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/55 "2004-12-15T20:24:29Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Now the lake is much clearer, but with adequate unicellular and multicellular algae to keep the ecosystem going – thanks to the evil zebra mussels! You don’t hear much about sea lampreys in the Great Lakes anymore, either. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/56 "2004-12-15T20:28:31Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > You don’t hear much about sea lampreys in the Great Lakes anymore, either. Actually, they’re still there – and fished regularly, for some reason! ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/57 "2004-12-15T20:33:44Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Do you still eat lobster? Or catfish? I can afford lobster? And I prefer farm-raised catfish, where my illusions that all they eat is Purina Catfish Chow can stay intact. And my wife had senile old relatives that wouldn’t eat fish because fish “ate the boys;” near as she could tell they were referring to men lost at sea during WWI. But there is a difference between a scavenger and something that gets its daily adult requirement of dioxin by filtering it straight out of the water. Not much, and the scavenger probably concentrates it better… That does it. No more food of any sort! Except I hear those snakeheads are real tasty. ---
**Author:** ![New\_Iskander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/db5fbb/32.png) [@New\_Iskander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/New_Iskander)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/58 "2004-12-15T20:35:58Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > Are we supposed to call French Fries “Freedom Fries” again now? Absolutely No. That was when French were against Freedom. Now that French are against Ecosystem, we eat “Eco Fries”. That will unite US left, right and center (right will grumble, but submit, because there’s money in it). ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/59 "2004-12-15T20:46:57Z")
Money? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909/60 "2004-12-15T22:05:25Z")
> [@manhattan](#): > > Money? It’s working already! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jacques-cousteau-and-french-kill-ocean-destroy-world/279909.md?page=4)