Boat registration may go up due to Asian Carp Invasion

[GeoFisher]

I've read where these fish are good to eat, and with so many people in the world needing food each day, why don't some people start a market for them and ship them world wide, the commercial fishing nets should be easy filled with the fish, seams like the carp are running near the surface of the lakes, they could market the fish world wide at a very cheap price, to help keep the supply in high demand, and the states that are so infested with the carp like KY, could stop wasting money on what ever method, they have been using to control the carp and failing so bad at. and use the money to subsidized the price the commercial fishermen are getting, for keeping the fish eaters around the world well feed, and by doing so free our lakes of carp, and remove the worry from our tax collectors... it could be like killing two birds with one stone..

They are GREAT to eat. Hard to clean though. A big issue with locals harvesting them is the the stigma with eating a trash fish, and cleaning them.

For the First issue......they are NOT a trash fish, and should probably be renamed something so folks will stop calling them "carp" and start eating the **** out of them. Their flesh is extremely mild, and they take to pretty much any cooking method.

I've baked , fried, grilled, blackened them.......

For the Second Issue..........Cleaning is a hard task. Lots of work. But they are good, and if you watch some of the videos, they are not too bad. A couple 30lb fish will make for CRAZY GOOD fish fry.

Flying Carp Wings....look it up......That is a great way to prepare and cook if you ask me.

Later,

Geo

[CaptObvious]

Don't forget that when you are attempting to electroshock them, you could also be shocking whatever native species that are in the area and have to deal with that as well. I'm sure there are smarter minds than mine that could figure out how to get around that perhaps. Maybe up the subsidy during their spawning time to persuade commercial fishermen to go after them. Probably this all has been thought out by the minds that are in charge. Just wondering out loud.