Lake Minnetonka is, if not outright, among the most desirable places to live in Minnesota. Home values have soared as interested buyers vie for even a sliver of the west metro lake.
But the lake, at least parts of it, is an even more attractive piece of real estate to a certain nasty, gilled neighbor: common carp.
In some bays, like West Arm, populations of the invasive fish exceed 8 times a healthy biomass. There are tens of thousands of them in the lake, including a biomass of over 700,000 pounds in just three western bays, according to a 2023 population assessment funded by concerned residents through the Harrisons Bay Association…