Posted on 03/16/2018 9:24:08 AM PDT by Rebelbase
Along the Mississippi River, fishermen and chefs are heading an effort to rid the ecosystem of invasive bighead and Asian silver carp the only way they know how — catching and eating them.
The two species were introduced to fish farm ponds in the central Midwest in the 1970s to clean murky pond water. Flooding allowed their escape into rivers, where they have reproduced in the wild and are outcompeting native species.
Louisiana Chef Philippe Parola has been expressing concern for native species of fish in Louisiana for years, worried about how shrimp, oyster, blue crab and other finfish that rely on plankton-rich waters could be destroyed by a sizable Asian carp population.
Parola has been on a campaign to convince officials in Louisiana and Illinois to support the Can’t Beat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em effort to rebrand Asian carp as silverfin for marketing purposes.
VANESSA: Really? Could we go fishing up there?
JERRY: Yeah, we can fish. What? Blues, carp, marlin?
“Maybe these could be canned for the food boxes POTUS proposed in place of food stamps?”
WINNER!
“Ad Kudzu to your list...”
Ahem...
Tolerably tasty and high in fiber!
Maybe 60 years ago, Florida tried to change the name of “Mullet” to “Lisa”. Apparently didn’t catch on. No problem as I love mullet. When I was a kid, in the late 50s and early 60s, the local supermarkets almost always had fresh mullet for 9 cents a pound.
Monkfish is ugly too, but it’s known as poor man’s lobster.
IIRC, carp caught from clean water is as good as other species. In eastern Europe carp are fattened in holding tanks & served as a holiday meal.
What about the Asian snakehead invasion? Chinese say the best thing to do about them is use plenty of ginger when you cook ‘em
And I still believe that “scallops” are shark plugs. Shark was once marketed as `grayfish’ and `steakfish’. Put `shark’ on the menu & people think of Jaws & belt buckles.
Dolphin fish became mahi-mahi only because nobody wanted to eat Flipper.
;^)
I see fish as a sort of miracle food.
In an episode of “Zatoichi” they describe an area as having delicious carp. In another they are serving red snapper at a banquet.
I always wondered if the translations were accurate. I can see the red snapper but carp?
Nobody would eat dolphin-——thinking of the cute TV performer——”Flipper.”
So they renamed it Mahi Mahi———on almost every menu of note
Wasn’t smoked mullet called king fish decades ago down in FL?
Couldn’t they just be ground up for cat food and fertilizer?
Every now and then, we would catch a golden carp (I guess, it's what's really known as a common or European carp). Whereas the suckers would mostly be pulled in pretty easily, those carp really gave us a fight. When .. and if .. we were able to haul them in, if they were more than 12 inches long, Mom told us to just toss them aside, that we would bury them in the garden for fertilizer. The ones that were less than a foot long, we kept and cooked up with the suckers. Not bad eatin' ...
I planted tomatoes on top of some buried trash fish from the river last year. Best crop I’ve ever grown.
Ah, yes. That icon of the western. Really, it's called Russian Thistle. In New Mexico, in springtime, the tumbleweeds perform their annual migration. Winds are strong enough to get 'em to Texas...
Several years back, I was in the middle of threes lanes with nowhere to go as I had cars next to and behind me, and a tumbleweed that was about 7 feet in diameter came up and onto the road in the middle lane right in front of me. Only thing I could do was keep driving. Damned thing exploded everywhere. I pulled off as soon as it was safe to check there wasn't anything stuck to exhaust components underneath, or a hole in my radiator.
King fish sounds familiar but I have no idea what it is.
Oh wait. “Amos N Andy”.
It does not appear to make much sense to ship the fish elsewhere for processing then back here for sale, but if there was not a profit involved they wouldn’t do it.
Why can’t Americans come up with a good fish boning machine
When I was a kid in moses lake Wa. in the 60’s we’d fish for crappie and sunfish. We’d get a wheelbarrow full and use them as fertilizer all over the flower gardens.
It never even dawned on us to eat them.
One of the most fun things about my time living in Michigan was getting to repeatedly say Tittabawassee.
My grandma canned carp all her life. Her “salmon patties” were to die for.
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