These Invasive Carp Are Getting a New Name So Americans Will Eat Them

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These Invasive Carp Are Getting a New Name So Americans Will Eat Them

March 09, 2021 - 19:00

Okay, are you ready for a dish of carp, it may soon be on the menu!
 

"To us in America, we think of carp as a bottom-feeding, muddy-tasting fish, which it is sometimes," Dirk Fucik, the owner of Dirk's Fish and Gourmet Shop in Chicago, told the outlet. "But Asian carp is a plankton-feeder. It's a different type of flesh—much cleaner, sweeter-tasting meat."

Asian carp have become an increasingly big headache in the United States. They were imported into the country in the 1970s to eat the algae at wastewater treatment plants, and to help clean up catfish ponds. Flooding and other water-related accidents helped them escape from those controlled environments, and they're now found in the Missouri and Illinois Rivers, and Illinois is doing everything it can to keep them out of the Great Lakes. 
Story link: Invasive 'Asian Carp' Will Get a New Name So Americans Will Eat Them | Food & Wine (foodandwine.com)


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