America's Most Hated Fish Are Being Purged By Electric Shocks and Sound
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Published 2020-10-26
The U.S. War on Asian Carp just leveled up. Although the Carpocalypse may never end, a recent weapon could be the best shot at controlling silver and bighead carp populations. The new approach called the "Modified Unified Method" takes a traditional Chinese netting technique and modifies it by adding annoying underwater sounds and electric currents to annoy the carp and drive them into a very small area for harvesting. It ends up removing around 90% of fish from a body of water.
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All Comments (21)
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America can't eat its way out of this problem. WATCH NEXT: Fire Ants Are Invading Hawaii, so Helicopters Are Blasting Them With Birth Control - https://youtu.be/tuh9gDQW3uw
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I like how it starts with a major environmental crisis and ends in a hot dog review
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Words I never thought I would hear. "It's going to be hard for the US to eat their way through this problem."
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They're Australia's most hated fish, too. Interestingly, a recent severe drought in Australia's largest river catchment, the Murray Darling Basin, led to the rivers drying up into stagnant pools that became quite saline over time. The native fish species survived just fine (they were adapted to it), but the carp died off in massive kills. Nature has a way of sorting itself out.
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One of my fishing buddies is from Germany. His father came out fishing with us, and after one of us caught a big head carp, and was going to simply discard it, he wanted to keep it, saying it just needs to be cooked correctly. He smoked the carp for 3 hours. It was delicious. It had a fishy taste, but the texture and consistency of ham. Since then, we have had smoked carp several times. I also had some boiled carp that wasnt too bad. However, I have also tried carp that came out terrible.
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The funniest part about all this is that I was thinking to myself the whole time "Why don't we just eat them all? It's free food." And then I got to the end of the video where they said that this fish is a delicacy in China but Americans don't like fish with bones in them. I started laughing...because I'm Chinese. LOL
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Carp is considered a delicacy here in asia. Maybe y'all could export these pests her for an affordable price.
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As a german who loves carp, I’ve been salivating through half the video 😅 Seriously, a nice fish costs 15€/kg here (equivalent 7.90$/pound). What I usually do after catching one from a muddy lake or river, is to keep it in a barrel or old bathtub for a few days in clean clear water. This way they can breathe out some of the muddy aroma and the taste is much better.
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When I was a child my mom taught me to remove bones from fish and eat them. I always thought that only small children wouldn't be able to...
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Vice News: “America can’t eat their way out of this problem” America: “Hold my beer”
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Why not making cat’s food with them ? There is always a positive issue .
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From Google: Unlike their sometimes muddy tasting cousins, the meat from silver and bighead carp is firm, white, mild, and flaky. It is often compared to cod in texture. I have grilled, fried, broiled, and steamed both bigheads and silvers and the results are always surprisingly good.
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How to cook a carp: get a wooden board. Nail carp to board. Scale carp. Gut carp. Filet carp. Throw away all parts of carp and eat the board.
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Entitled humans: I don't like to eat fish with bones. Fish: I am gonna breed faster and faster until you do.
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It's pretty funny how we have caused tons of species to go extinct but when we actually try to stop a species rapid multiplication we have a crazy hard time
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In India(Kolkata) these fish are sold for $2.50 per Kg. Some of those fish they're throwing away are worth $50 or more. Madness
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I grew up in China. Haven't had carp for more than 10 years in the states. I like the dishes my mum cooked with carp. A childhood memory my generation won't forget, though I hate those bones, just too many. Back to those days, carps were really good but cheap food to get high quality protein. It is actually pretty healthy food, compared to hot dog, which I also love.
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Me, an Asian whos see this as a business opportunity: it's free real estate
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"Americans don't like to eat fish that have bones in them" What fish has no bones? Jelly fish?
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This fish is FOOD, good food for us in Malaysia ! What a pity they are not appreciated in America...😢
