Posted on 01/19/2011 10:30:09 AM PST by JoeProBono
MUKWONAGO, Wash.- A Wisconsin restaurant chef is planning an "invasivore" dinner starring dishes made from invasive Asian carp taken from the Illinois River.
Chef Jimmy Wades of the Heaven City Restaurant in Mukwonago said the Asian carp menu for "invasivores" -- those who enjoy helping the environment by dining on invasive species -- will hit the restaurant in February as part of his Tapas Tuesday series, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday.
"Lots of people will try anything once," Wades said.
However, some conservationists warned creating demand for Asian carp could increase the threat to the Great Lakes and other bodies of water by slowing the eradication of the species from U.S. lakes.
"One of the great things about North Americans is when they're dealt lemons, they make lemonade," said Marc Gaden, spokesman for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. "But very often, they forget that they weren't drinking lemonade in the first place, and don't even like it."
don’t they make a net you shoot out of a gun type thing??
the story goes that these asian silver carp were in a hatchery adjacent to the Mississippi River, south of St. Louis, during the flood of ‘93. The flood encompassed the hatchery, and the fish went free...18 years ago....
Legal to shoot ‘em? sure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwMSy7xK218
Nutria is darn tasty in the right recipe!
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