What about the WKRP Carp?
Posted on 09/22/2011 3:58:45 AM PDT by RtWngr
Illinois officials hope serving the invasive species on a plate is the creative solution to two big problems: controlling the plankton-gobbling carp from entering the Great Lakes and record numbers of people facing hunger. But the idea has major obstacles, mainly overcoming people's nose-crinkling response to eating a fish that grows to 100 pounds and is able to sail out of the water — a trait spotlighted in YouTube videos.
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maybe the White House needs to have a sushi party
You can always count on the government to give you a load of carp.
From what I gather carp is a trash fish as far as flavor goes, I used to raise koi fish which are basically carp.
Europeans will eat carp, and if you get people hungry enough I guess Americans will eat it as well.
Question is, who will use it politically for crony capitalism?
But the idea has major obstacles, mainly overcoming people’s nose-crinkling response to eating a fish that grows to 100 pounds and is able to sail out of the water
Hasn’t the writer ever heard of swordfish?
What about sending it to countries where the people are starving to death like Somalia? To them, it would be a Godsend.
No mention of the fact that legal sales of great lakes fish are limited due to mercury contamination?
Illinois is simply trying to keep the sewage canal open.
Haven’t you ever heard of bad writers? There are more of them than carp.
BTW diploid grass carp are very useful for weed control in lakes.
Anyone know if this type of carp has a mudline? I never heard of anyone eating flying carp. If they were edible I would expect to have heard stories about people air netting dozens for supper.
This is a different species. Asian (Big Head and Silver) are pretty good tasting. The problem is, it takes about 20 minutes for a skilled man to fillet 2 pounds of usable meat off a 20 pound fish. Zillions of tiny bones make the rest unusable. If you cook it long enough to soften the little bones, it reduces the quality of the flesh considerably.
It would probably make good cat food though.
If the damned things would take a hook, they would make a great sport fish.
Folks from Asia love eating these fish. Don’t know how they taste, but they were introduced in to US waters by people who brought them in for food.
The guy from Kentucky Afield claims they are good to eat. He generally knows what he is doing...
Two part vid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWYm_inOAgg
Why are these fish such a problem? According to lefties, we’re good at exterminating stuff.
Midwest outdoor?
They let you bow fish these things. What they need to do is let people shoot them like skeet with rules for safety of coarse. I bet that would be fun and effective.
Carp are OK if you smoke them, but they’re hard to keep lit.
The need to hire Prudhomme to come up with a recipe for blackened carp
What about the WKRP Carp?
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