Asian carp are an invasive species that is thriving and choking out native species in a lot of American waterways. And the silver variety can also be hazardous to boaters:
As this Wall Street Journal article points out, some entrepreneurs are tying to turn the problem into an opportunity. As one of them says,
There is no such thing as a bad fish. Come up with a product that is in demand, and people will buy it.
Good for them! I wish them well.
January 31, 2014
Unless it is vastly different from the fresh water carp that we get here, they are edible and should be harvested for food!
That’s what the article was about. People are trying to find a way to make harvesting profitable.
agreed.
there are people in my state who consider them extremely tasty even though they are considered a ‘rough’ fish.
i don’t care for fish in general. so i wouldn’t know what they taste like.
afraid my unsophisticated palate only goes for salmon and tuna and rarely even then.
the marine likes tilapia too. grilled.
we’re over~fishing so many of our oceans… maybe carp and tilapia are the way of the future.
I agree, the overfishing of the oceans may swing the balance in favor of carp.
Apparently they’re tricky to fillet — parts of them are tastier than other parts and it’s harder to get the bones out.
We ate a lot of tilapia ’til I found out it didn’t have omega 3 oil because it is pretty much fat-free.
Carp are good to eat–I looked it up.
Once in Florida the beach was laden with frozen fish after a storm & freeze. If I lived there & had a freezer I’d have filled it with fish.
Some areas are losing businesses that rely on boaters because of the problem.
One business owner says she wouldn’t let her grandkids go in a boat there, too dangerous.
I just now got an email from Carl Levin, U.S. Senator from Michigan, about the need to protect the Great Lakes from the Asian carp. Coincidence? For some reason I’ve been on his mailing list.
i seem to recall they became a problem here as well, but whether they are a business now, I don’t know…
I Googled it and this site says Asian carp don’t breed in the wild in NZ. Apparently some government agencies are trying to get them to. One fellow points out given what’s going on in the U.S. that might not be a good idea!
Jean, then it must be some other introduced similar species that “jumped the fence” from weed eating to somewhere they shouldn’t multiply…
I couple of land lubbers animals have certainly cause havoc here, the possum and the rabbit!
There are countless examples unfortunately. The biggest invasive species, of course, is we homo sapiens!