Still, half a million people slaughtered. This means war.
Posted on 04/25/2014 11:54:43 PM PDT by Paul R.
Scientists are studying the cause of a massive fish kill in western Kentucky, which state wildlife officials are saying is the largest kill of its kind recorded.
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Hurrah! Whatever happened bottle it! They have been trying
kill the suckers off for years with little luck in the great lakes!
The US isn’t the only place with an invasive fish problem. When I was in Japan, they were complaining about the bass and bluegills from the US. The bluegills were actually introduced by the emperor himself, and he apologized for that.
That is one bad-ass carp.
Actually looked for it. It’s an older episode, season 5 episode 5 Joe Tess Place.
Yes, I’m afraid that our predecessors were not environmentally conscious, and introduced a lot of species where they should never have been present. I’m not blaming them; they really did not know the harm they would cause.
In Berkeley, CA, there is an arboretum where you can see the plant species native to NorCal. The familiar landscape of CA would look quite different without the ubiquitous ground cover of invasive oats.
Estuaries are tidewater, open to the ocean on one end, with fresh water entering near the headwaters.
As a result, you get a variety of critters adapted to one, the other, or even both environments (salt and fresh water), but more generally, best suited to the brackish water we fished in.
Those (yellow carp) are beautiful fish, and would be better than starvation, but generally those carp tasted like marsh mud.
I don't doubt what Guy Fieri was eating was good, I enjoy watching his show and have little doubt he likes good, basic, food.
I'm thinking more along the lines of buying a pontoon boat and offering shotgunners morning and afternoon shooting trips.......
Slow pressure cook them and the bones are soft enough to eat . . . like canned sardines.
I think the owner said he went through a thousand pounds a week. He got them from all over the country so I am thinking maybe farm raised - if anyone even does that.
I don’t know if anyone does, but if you can control the diet, you can control the flavor to some extent (or eliminate undesirable flavors).
There's a local t.v. program here called "Kentucky Afield" and the focus is generally (like you might expect) hunting, fishing and outdoor stuff. They've had a few episodes where they've talked about the asian carp and the host has compared the flavor favorably with bluegill. Apparently the flavor is very mild and not carp-like at all, but the fish is very bony.
Asian carp name offends some Asian-Americans
The troublesome fish currently known as Asian carp may get a new name in Minnesota over concern that the current one casts people from Asian cultures in a negative light.
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Farm raising them ought to be illegal!
They actually taste fine - they were introduced from Europe as fish to eat after all. If they’re out of relative clean water or spring-fed streams or lakes, they’re very good, especially small ones.
It’s the bones that are the problem. They are very good smoked and canned with tomato juice (known locally as ‘Iowa salmon’).
Sometimes gefilte fish from carp commands a premium.
Dead fish should become part of crop fields.
Can them..like canned salmon. We used to do it with Northern Pike and suckers.
I think habitat has a great deal to do with the flavor difference. We have the same problems with the ‘Y’ bones in Northern Pike up here. I have found pressure canning the fish (I like Snappy Tom’s Tomato Juice for broth to add a little zing) gets rid of the ‘Y’ bones. They crumble, and are barely noticeable. Short of taking the time to fillet around them, I prefer canning them.
Yeah, I lived once at the outlet of Cayuga, one of the Finger Lakes. The north end was only about six feet deep and weedy, and abounded with large carp, bluegills, perch, chain pickerel, and largemouth bass.
The carp were a pain to catch on a line meant for panfish. You get them in to the dock/boat, wound them seriously with a boat hook, then let them off to die.
Even when warned, I once tried to bake a filleted carp. Mud. Not edible.
Still, half a million people slaughtered. This means war.
I thought I’d read awhile back that the Asian carp are taking our waters over killing out other species like the crappie, bass, catfish, spoonbill, etc.???? So maybe this isn’t such a bad thing?
The Asian carp dying? Thats a VERY good thing.
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