This is how it ends.

Great idea - look how well the Aussies did with Myxomatosis to control their rabbit problem...

Excess food, so destroy it? Is there any sense when other parts of the world is suffering starvation? Get fishermen with nets etc to catch those excess fish commercially and export it cheaply to other parts of the world. This is a ploy by business owners to keep carp prices high for better profits. It is a crime to destroy excess food stock. Introducing diseases to local stock is terrible. They introduced diseases to rabbits in Australia because rabbits reproduced out of control too. Can ANYONE feel safe to eat a rabbit or a carp anymore? Why dont you bomb a few oil fields because there is too much oil in the market? How ridiculous can people become?

"This is a ploy by business owners to keep carp prices high for better profits" Jeez... NO, it's REALLY not. Carp have utterly devastated the natural balance in Aussie rivers, this is purely an effort to redress the balance, albeit a debatable one. Carp aren't a usual food fish in Australia anyway.

I agree. We must stop interfering with mother nature. When we look further down the line another health issue for us to deal with.
Governments should be compelled to put aside capitalism and encourage sharing their excesses. Entrepreneurs can create businesses harvesting these fish for local consumption and export opportunities - addressing unemployment issues.
Hold open and professional competitions to catch these fish. And yes, freeze or salt them and send them to starving nations.
Come on leaders! Get your heads out of the sand and be creative and environmentally conscious.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could do the same for those nasty STINK BUGS!!!!!

I don't see why they just don't fish them out. Cat food, fish sticks maybe

There are many ways this action can backfire.

"Hold open and professional competitions to catch these fish"
There are FAR too many of them for this to work - this really is an apocalyptic situation as far as Australia's waters are concerned (as the article says, they make up something like 90% of the fish in some river systems - there are MANY MILLIONS of fish, and carp grow big), and angling for them won't even scratch the surface. Commercial fishing techniques won't work either, for logistical and ecological reasons. They're already netting the fish commercially to make into FERTILISER, for pity's sake - and even these industrial efforts aren't making a dint: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-30/carp-numbers-predicted-to-rise-under-murray-darling-basin-plan/7059680

"We feel pretty confident that it is very safe" OK they feel confident, very reassuring and scientific, so let go and infect with viruses, Herpes nevertheless, the fish in it's natural habitat, I'm pretty sure the virus will self check and do what it was "mandated" to do, it's a smart well behaved virus!