...to extinction, nor each other when no other fish are around. They're plankton eaters which is why they were brought here in the first place. Bad idea of course, but there you have it: Facts. They may eat other plankton-eating fish into extinction by out-eating them but not by having them for lunch. And still, they have no place in an eco-system that developed w/o them in it.
Asian carp have been a popular food fish in Asia for thousands of years. However, many people in North America associate all carp with common carp, a bottom-feeding, worse-tasting species that was introduced from Eurasia in the 1800's commonly not classified as food. The pearly white flesh - complicated by a series of bones - is said to taste like cod or described as tasting like a cross between scallops and crabmeat. They are low in mercury because they do not eat other fish. To make the fish more appealing to American consumers, the fish have been renamed silverfin or Kentucky tuna. Volunteer efforts to increase the popularity further include making and selling carp-based dishes and using the entrails to make fertilizer. Some have thought to collect the carp eggs for caviar, since one bighead carp was found with over 2 million eggs. Two million eggs from one fish could fill two jars of caviar, which would be quite valuable. This is only true, however, in the case of a fish from which people would eat eggs. As of now, there is no market for carp eggs in America, though there is a movement that is trying to increase the popularity of carp eggs in Europe. link
- Apparently the people in the above video don't know what delicious tastes like either. Thank you for clearing things up for them.....
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