Carpe Diem: Is This The Answer To This Fishy Problem? | Real Wild Channel 

You hit the nail on the head! Make fish cakes available to me at a reasonable price and I will show you an endangered species! I heard about this carp invasion since 96. But nobody in all that time has made it available to me and I live in lower Michigan. The cost of tuna has done nothing but gone up, give us something cheaper and it will fly off of the shelves! If you send me a case of frozen fish patties I'll share them with people I work with.

25:35 the two guys that are just beating the life out of the carp made my day 😂😂😂

Can’t you build carp harvester, excite the fish to jump and have have rotating nets similar to a combine harvester to catch the fish ?

A massive source of protein here, and fertilizer as well. If I were younger I would be making fish meal out of them to use for animal feed and fertilizer as well. A reduction plant would be a money maker I would think.

Hi everybody, we in Hungary love to eat this invasive fish in various forms of dishes. One more tip: make sousage from this fishmeat adding some bacon to it. Smoke it, dry it for some weeks. Delicious.

The people organizing the fish hunting in Illinois, needs to get in touch with Asian restaurants and communities and advertise it as a food festival

In central Illinois these fish are easy to catch in the Illinois river and the one good thing is they can be used to feed the animals at Wildlife Prairie Park in Hanna City, Illinois. Donations of meat are needed at Wildlife Prairie Park. The jumping carp are a good source of meat for many of their animals.

I have lived my entire life in the Allegheny Valley. Tons of regular bottom mouth carp 3 gens thought they were always there. Also lived three lots away from Pymatuning dam only 9.3 miles from "Where the ducks walk on the fishes backs" every weekend as a kid. Worked at a Chinese restaurant in Squirrel Hill. The owner was in his glory fishing the Pymatuning the Bridge at the spillway. I have eaten carp. NOT on the menu but as a guest. The way the Chinese cook them that fish falls off the bone. It was banging good. Hats off to Lady Ping.❤

There was a team in Australia working on genetically engineering "Daughterless Carp". After several generations of all male offspring, the population collapses. That team had its funding pulled in 2012, after proof of concept testing with Zebra Fish, but I'm sure they could be rounded up and offered jobs to clear the US of Silver and Bighead Carp.

For your info ,Carpe are allready in the great lakes, Last time i went out fishing,all that I caught was carpe. No good for anything except to carry home and bury under your rose bushes. Just another big thank you from Asia..

I absolutely LOVE cooking fish with bone-in, head on. Adds a lot of flavor, retains the moisture and the whole experience of picking your meal apart is actually primal and very satisfying. It's like eating a lobster in the shell; you set up your butter, buns, utensils, put on a movie and crack open a couple cold ones. Great way to spend an occasional evening.

That could be the US top export product. And I'll gladly buy 'em everytime!

wish i had a boat load they are really good canned and smoked and you use it like tuna make awesome fish loaf or patties sandwhiches

A guy, a few years back, came and caught a bunch of the Asian carp and took them to our famous Fast Eddie's and cooked them up, the people around here seemed to like it but idk whatever came out of it, I'm in Alton Illinois, right on the Mississippi

The problem in North America is that they people are too fussy about the type of fish they eat. In Asian countries the carp is quite sought-after.

25:36 awesome beatdown.

If this fish gets into the Great Lakes, you can kiss goodbye to the Missouri River trout.

Man can "overfish" oceans but can't "overfish" these rivers of Asian carp? Something ain't right.

People starving everyday, but there's a fish over population problem 🤔🤔

I had a $200 dollar fine 2 years ago because I was fishing Asian carp with expired fishing license

After the bones are cut out you can mix bread crumbs an egg an deep fry into patties

Dog/cat food?

One aspect of this issue was not addressed: what keeps the population of Asian carp in check in their native Asian habitat. Could the replicating of those conditions be achieved in North America or, at the very least, could more input be provided as to preventing them from being dominant in every habitat they invade?

LOVE your play on words, "CARP-diem." In any event, as an avid fisherman, I fear that NOTHING we try to do to stop the wholesale invasion of this unwanted species will ever ultimately stop them (like building a wall between the US and Mexico to stop illegal immigration). *It's just a matter of time at this point,* just like the Snakehead and the Zebra Mussel invasion of Florida and the Great Lakes. The ONLY method I believe will even help in this regard is to simply create ways to use this fish as a cheap and easily available FOOD SOURCE, something that McDonald's can turn into some form of profit, like "McCarp Tenders," or organic fertilizer, or simply shipping them out to global Asian markets to satisfy their demand. Nothing else is going to slow down, much less stop, this creature from destroying America's valuable sport fishing industry or waterway system... NOTHING.

If people can make good money from catching the Asian carp, and the carp are not regulated, then the numbers will drop due to over fishing. If a person were to establish a business that used the carp to make fertilizer, fuel and food, then the numbers will drop.

So is their caviar any good? I sense an opportunity here.

Oh man sushi. Need I say more?! If we can eat Blowfish that is poisonous, we can do carp.

always my favourite video and documentary

Ask Australia about bringing in non-native species to take care of a problem, because when you do that you right away have two problems. Would it be possible to close the canals, or run screen across the whole width? It almost seems insurmountable.

The title should be "Carpe Carp" Seize the carp 🐟😄

I would be willing to bet that Asian Carp are already in the Great Lakes. All it would take is for some idiots to catch them and keep them alive long enough to transplant them in the Great Lakes or other inland lakes.

How can they survive in the cold waters? What is their limits?

Hit em with shockwaves from quarter sticks of dynamite?

when you pressure can them you can even eat the bones

Fill in the Chicago channel too ,the only way to keep them out of the lakes , I live only five mile from Lake Michigan.

If Asian Carp can jump twelve feet or more they will get through the electric barriers in the Chicago river , it’s just a matter of time . Fill in the Chicago river channel .

Just bring a chinese crew and they will fish them all in a day

The bighead carp is a great delicacy in Toronto Chinese restaurants where I've seen them live in tanks, but it was about 20 years ago.

Close the canal system problem solved

i live in the Florida Keys and they say we have a Lion Fish problem on the reef here they have round up here also to get rid of the Lion Fish , here they do serve the Lion Fish on the menu, there is a market for Lion Fish

Carpe Carp. Seize the fish!

All you have to do is announce this to the Chinese community, they will mobilize and over fish for them and no problem anymore. By the way, I’m Chinese so I’m not being racist.

this video was made 4 years ago i wonder has there been any progress or not on these carp control plans

I have seen some very different carp with other carp in the mouth of a small river connected to the Detroit river . They looked a lot like the asian carp . I am sure of it. Now I don`t know if they were the buffalo carp or the asian I`m not sure but they were a different kind of carp. I have told officials who were collecting information but they just shrugged me off.

Come on USA, that is tons of food waiting to be harvested.

David Suzuki! nice!

Very tastety fish ....give it MEITEI people from Indian state Manipur

What about snake heads. Please do a video. Thank you.

This fish taste better than tilapia

Canning fish makes the bones break down and then they can to be eaten. Plus the market for pet food or fertilizer

This was all predicted to happen : Piranha ( 1978 ). Classic !!

I HAVE SOME AMAZING RECIPES FOR CARP. BUT I CAN'T CATCH THEM.

They are already in the lakes

such a complicated situation. something has to be done

I'm very surprised to say this because I'm very picky about fish. I caught my first Asian Carp and was told to treat it a little like catfish/cod somewhere in there. My buddy told me to pick a recipe in there and try it. Aware of the bones, i flash boiled the meat and it fell right off the bones then made a German beer battered fish stick. I'M A CONVERT . It is not as good as catfish with this recipe but it is so good I'm confident anyone with a brain will make this over and over. I next day i made a mango dipping sause and that hit it perfectly. Get some and try it

Those kids in Illinois that are starving and half a mile from the carp need to be educated on how to fish, that seems so obvious and the lady says they have no way to get them fish?

To stop them, promote habitats for nesting for Herons, Storks, Pelicans, Egrets, Bald Eagles, Osprey, Fishing Owls. Promote habitats for Snakes, Otters, Pike, and other predatory fish. Another solution close off all access to the Great lakes from the Mississippi waterways. Damn them up. These fish are highly tassty too, so humans eat them up left and right. Eat a Carp, save a native fish!

You can feed the entire Yemen and countries that cant afford food, its a good eating fish, FEED THE HUNGRY DIEING PEOPLE

Where we can buy that silver carp? I think we need that fish here in Philippines people here are fish eaters even the small piece tilapia is a target

My idea would be to do like was done with the screwworm flys it worked for the flys, maybe it’ll work for the fish.

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Well export meat. In Europe is carp fillet is about $10. BTW carp meat is more delicious and nutrition than tilapia.

Maybe find a market in a neighboring state (ship the fish to be used as meat) theirs a big supply now they just need a demand. once people like it and the interest grows a lot of fish sent out, could help a little, plus could be used to raise money for the areas affected or support other efforts to stop the Asian carp from spreading. After watching full thing called it.

Invasive carp were originally imported from Southeast Asia to the southern United States to help aquaculture and wastewater treatment facilities keep retention ponds clean. Flooding and accidental releases allowed these fish to escape into the Mississippi River system and migrate into the Missouri and Illinois rivers. The Mississippi, Missouri, and Illinois rivers are all connected and therefore fish swim freely between them. The Illinois River is also connected to the Great Lakes by a manmade connection, known as the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Time-line 1963: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service imports grass carp from Eastern Asia to Arkansas for federal research on controlling aquatic vegetation in aquaculture ponds. 1966: First believed escape of invasive carp into U.S. waters, in Arkansas. 1970: State of Arkansas begins stocking grass carp in weed-choked waters throughout the state. 1972: Bighead carp are first brought into the US by a fish farmer in Arkansas to improve water quality and fish production in aquaculture. 1973: Silver carp are introduced into the US for phytoplankton control in culture ponds and as fish food. 1973: An Arkansas fish farmer who ordered grass carp unintentionally receives the nation’s first shipment of black carp. 1974: The Arkansas Fish and Game Commission report extensive stocking in more than 100 public or semi-public lakes with over 50,000 acres stocked with more than 380,000 grass carp. 1976: Silver carp, stocked in sewage ponds, escape into wild during flood. 1976: First wild sighting of invasive carp in Arkansas. 1980: The first report of silver carp swimming in the wild. 1981: The first record of a Bighead carp caught in natural waters when an individual was caught on the Ohio River below Smithland Dam, Kentucky. 1982: Carp considered “established” in the wild in Arkansas.

Make food out of them like dog, cat, animal feed. Making $$$. Grind them including the bone to fine power before reforming it.

can it tolerate salt water?

2 words.....FREE FOOD 👍

Give them to us Asians. We can make a lot of stew based dishes from these lovely fishes. Our belief is the more the bones, the more tasty it is.

This battle was lost many, many years ago, as soon Asian Carp was introduced to this continent. Now this is a way to make money, getting grants and salaries. By the way, fish eggs get from one river or lake to another by ducks, geese, cormorants and other birds.

Correction: Silver carp (White carp), AKA Hypophthalmichthys molitrix, do not grow to 100 kilos. They max out at about 50 kilos; I think the narrator meant to say 100 lbs (100 lbs=50 kilos - still big enough to kill a person!). @25:00 Since these fish are so sensitive to sound, they could be herded en masse by "Carpbuoys" (no horses needed!) using sound cannons. Since they're headed to Lk Michigan we could build a series of cut out 'abattoirs' along the way, then launch a program of "Roundups", herding them into the kill pools, shock them to death, and dredge the bodies out for animal feed or fish patties, etc for humans. Put fish sensors along the path to track populations and progress. Rinse. Repeat. NO POISON NEEDED!

Carp is one of the main ingredients in gefilte fish

Very clean fish. Has some of the best omega 3 and 6 content. Tastes good and not small bones like the normal carps. Try one

Asian carp sound like Australia's cane toad nightmare.

Fish stocks world wide are being depleted by over fishing .Troll fishing often upsets marine ecosystem and destroys coral reefs . If not for the bones, troll fishing the Asian carp from the over populated rivers, may be one solution to the problem .

Looks like good fertilizer to me

Ohhh my...if we had that situation here..we can make use of it to making it into a fertilisers , food source for both humans and animals.

Common carp have naturalised and arent a threat. also they're often mixed up with native buffalo, which get killed in hopes of stemming the invasive surge

How did they get in the water in the first place

I wonder what pike and jacks will do with carp....?

If that Great lake has so much attractive alige to those carp, use it to attract and control them.

To america this fish ia a pest.outside the country having this much is blessing from god and edible

The constant whistling sound is like nails on a chalkboard

Shut down the canals! Commerce will evolve to deal with it. Close the canals! That's the solution no one wants to talk about! Save our lakes!

What about a sound that can attract them ALL herd them to a canal or to a small area and catch them or poison them?

So what is their natural predator from their home land?

The point is this fish is invasive and terrible for its surroundings. So either let this fish damage and over populate while just about EVERYTHING else dies. Or control them and let nature flourish

Can you people say it's just fish. Little golden morsels of goodness.

Like a nightmare

If my memory is correct, the Lamprey problem, all over the Great Lakes, was stopped by electric means. I have seen these carp reacting to shocking.

They would make good fertilizer for farmers fields. Invent some way to catch them by the thousands, grind them up into a slurry and have them sprayed onto fields just like they do with pig crap.

US govt keep complaining about #1 - Homeless people not being fed well and #2 - invasive carp population rising. So - why not catch the invasive fish, process it and then help feed the homeless?

Fish oil can be processed into diesel fuel. A purse-seine net is the most efficient catch method.

I don't understand why thry don't just use massive nets, catch em and feed the starving millions around the world or use it as plant fertilizer. Asian carp are low in mercury, not fishy tasting and absorb flavors of sauces etc

What do they taste like? Are they mud tasting like the catfish? Can you turn them into fish sticks?

Also I hope a small number are being kept elsewhere sometimes a creature that is plentiful can later be at risk as a species. Looks like that won't happen here but still the results to the problem could work to well. In which case scientists would have to figure out how to solve that problem. Biggest one in concerned about is the pill what if it does become a sickness or evolves to affect other fish or affect to many fish here true its not really a problem here but if it somehow ended up somewhere their is not a big population it could be a big problem.

I feel quite certain that the people of North Korea would love to have this fish as one of their entrees.

48:09 dude has something crawling on his jacket

I would love a couple semi loads for my Fields I don't use chemical fertilizer

They make great fertilizer. Turn them into an economic resource.

They apparently do clean water of over-fertilization-a big problem in Florida where lawn runoff causes algae blooms and eutrophication. Are they doing so in the Mississippi? Gamefish do eat the young ones. The meat is actually tasty. How about those quarter million eggs? Could they be harvested for Copi caviar? The war analogy (invasion, attack, etc) is not helpful. Let's use 'em.