Utah Lake-Carp Removal 

Too funny!

roy hoco not Asian carp

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Randy She No guessing here. That carp flavor can't be washed out. LMAO

My grandmother would can Carp in a pressure cooker and use it in tuna recipes instead of using tuna. Before anyone says anything negative, as long as you clean the carp thoroughly, you should have no problems with it.

heavy metal poisoning

George Foltz they tried that before. The cat food makers only want tuna. We should start a new canning business. Canned carp is really good! My friend used to can it and people came from 70 miles away just to get some! Crazy huh? We were trained not to eat carp. Why? Because back in the day the fish was raised for export. The government didn't want people to eat it so that they could create a national income bringing money into the new nation. It worked until everybody jumped on the band wagon! They soon flooded the market and everybody bailed out. Dumping their carp into the local lakes and streams. If you bleed a carp the meat goes sweet. The muddy taste goes out. They eat em in the south.

@@creamcheesewonton274 the heavy metals in carp are no worse then any other fish, especially tuna.

@@zoki.to974 I want to try this when ever I get a smoker set up.

@@nicks2581 Use big carp 10 lbs. and up the bones are bigger easier to find.

Looked it up - so far a 78% decline in carp density and some areas of the lake are recovering. But is sounds like there are still lots to remove and so the removal process continues.

Juat had a look at the Lake on Google. It is amazing to think they have that tonnage of one species in a lake body of that volume!

@@michaelinhouston9086 doubt it, unless you do it every year, carp population would be restored quickly.

Sell them to China!

That or catfish out of the Red River.

you don't get it. they eat and interfere with the NATIVE fish. Soon they will be gone, Get it>

@@terryjp3050 You do realize that the video was produced in 2009 and the Carp are still there today right?

Do you know why they eat carp there..... because they have Jack shit for alternatives! Sorry I'm not going to chow down on carp when I could just as easily grab a walleye a the channel cat a crappie a salmon or a trout.

I don't know about carp, but Northern Pike from Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence Seaway is very tasty. I learned how to filet the pike without any bones, cook them like bass with potato flakes - very tasty, not fatty, so you don't have to worry about contamination. Pike is just like Jack Perch, and prepared the same way.

I'm afraid to say the carp are holding their own - there's still millions in the lake.

@@rogertycholiz2218 3 years later there are still millions upon millions.

We tried this in a small Wisconsin lake 30 years ago.... it seemed like the more we culled, the more carp we'd see the following year.... unbelievable

@@sdrizathey’re like rats!

The problem my logic tells me is if this was going to be successful they either would have to annihilate them entirely or this kind of large scale carp fishing would have to be a continuous without end. The carps were introduced by a very small number of a few perhaps even just by one pregnant female and decades later it is over ran. If they don't make them extinct in this lake entirely they will continue to populate and this will be a never ending project.

Boe Dayious I seen crap but carp lol

william III be safe when eating carp there like gold fish worthless

They might even build a plant in your town like they did in Illinois for the silver carp .

the problem is that there was a steel plant on the shore of the lake that ran for decades and nothing in the lake is safe to eat do to the run off from that plant

Ruben, carp and goldfish are cousins. Same with koi.

Mike!! Your a legend! So fucking funny I spit out my cereal I was laughing so hard...

True

JJ it’s a joke soiboi

@@mikehenry4743 You are truly a friggin' moron on the order of tRump itself.

Today is 10/1/2019. How is the lake doing today?

It was later established that the people in the video were Russian and were stealing your fish😊

Almost 10 now

There's still tons of carp.

And gold fish

Money spent, CARP likely still there, this is how ecology works, not a one time fix. Make it free for everyone to fish these for food, no size limit, CARP will be under control in 1yr.

lobster is like 5$ a pound not expensive

Whole europe eats carp.

Mullet from ocean sea, and not river, (muddy taste) is quite tasty, it's oily, similar to Taylor, and if you grill the mullet whole scales on, and after it's out of the grill and on the plate, just peel the charred scales skin back and sprinkle salt . . Don't adultrate the delicious taste of grilled fish with dressing sauce, you would swear you're in heaven

Read an article on the Civil War where after Sherman pilaged and burned his way through the South, a displaced Southern Lady complained that she was now forced to eat the same food as her slaves did. You know what that was? SHRIMP!

@@rarescroitoru291 Eats and breeds it for eating.

Australia seems to be the only country that understands what a problem these fish are. Everyone else just bitches and whines about killing them.

Perfect! They would soon be back to work.

Samuel Quinones. Good idea.

Heave a 20 lb. Big Head at some homeless guy on the freeway ramp.

MrThang ..lmao...At least he won't starve...lol

this is the best idea yet,5 carp a week ..they will be gone in no time.

Dude that Is a good idea, cat n dog food made cheap.

@@juliosdiy3206 Pigs too, they will eat anything.. even plastic

jimforjzs777 we already brought in the hmongs, there are towns in Central Wisconsin and other places that used to be beautiful cities and now they have gangs and crime.

jesus m solis jr - Very good idea.

How do you figure it is free? Looks ridiculously expensive to me

Randall Parker because those guys are getting $10/hr.

Yeah the millions and millions it will cost to process it for that is free...

Great idea!

Different Carp.......America has Asian Carp......boney as h*ll.....tedious eating.

And all have names

What?

People in Asia eat them so it don't matter

They will NEVER admit that...as they gladly take your money.

Carp were introduced by settlers in the 1800s.

@@tinknal6449 true.

Just like kudzu to the South. Introduced disease to the elms. So on and so forth.

​@@Mike-xi4zt carp were brought in as a food source in the 1800's in california. They were stocked in ponds on fish farms to be raised and sold as food to settlers and immigrants who had eaten carp in europe. First ones came from germany I believe, along with the brown trout and the ringneck pheasant for the same reason. It was a business venture that went wrong when the california state decided that it should be a food for everyone (shocking right?) and started stocking them in all the bodies of water. Well, other states east of there wanted carp too so the US gov transported them to their areas and did the same thing. Eventually they just spread everywhere and took over. Now they are naturalized almost everywhere in the US.

Janet Lee Fish Patties

Excellent idea. Just label it catfish which is a dirtier fish than carp.

you dont want to eat anything out of that lake, Geneva Steel used it as a dumping ground for years before they went out of business

Better yet, Tom, you and other posters with similar comments could eat the delicious carp while giving the equivalent $$ you'd spend on the food normally to the families that need medical assistance.

@B Dog ... Why wouldn't you?

Gun_Klub It only took a couple of carp to take over the lake in the first place.

thats exactly my point, if they let 25% of the carp stay in the lake in a couple of years it'll be full of carp again!

Because it will never happen. There are 8 major tributaries that feed the lake. In addition to that, there are side waters and canals that feed into those tributaries or the lake themselves. All of them are filled with carp. Utah Lake is the second largest natural lake and the largest freshwater natural lake in the state. The hope is that 25% will be maintained and not increased. As for the native fish, bonneville cutts cannot live in that ecosystem, however the June Sucker can and they are why this is happening. Keeping the feds out of the state to not control the management of the lake. They will be back regardless of how many are removed. Get swept over the dam from Deer Creek or they get in from the Jordan River somehow, they will come back.

6 year too get it to 25% better off to drain it and start over ha haha but that wont happen

Even germex only removes like 99% of germs

Carl Keller that's the fish and wildlife for ya! Doing anything to keep their jobs! Instead of selling the fish to those countries that eat them via commercial fishing them like they do in my lake! Fish and wildlife mismanages EVERYTHING THEY LAY HANDS ON! HAVING ONE GOAL IN MIND , HOW TO CREATE PROBLEMS TO JUSTIFY THEM KEEPING A JOB!

If they put a quarter a pound bounty on them, fishermen might actually want to catch them here in the USA. In many countries in Europe, carp is THE game fish.

Ill do it for 4$ a fish.

@@biggeorgetx -In Poland a carp has limits to catch but its a king carp developed thru centuries in Monasteries ponds. King carp has only a few scales and no small bones.It's very expensive and eaten mostly at Christmas traditional dish.

@@ziggy5509 Thank you, I've learned something new.

blackfox3737 you kill the fish and toss it to the side

If you have a compost pile they do wonders for the biometric spectrum after broken down by microbes.

I'd say just toss it into the local bushes protected area so local wild animals can eat it. But if you have more than a few I'd just toss them into the trash. Unless you eat them. I hate to just kill them like that but they're an invasive species and it would be irresponsible to throw them back.

I would be surprised if a regular fisherman could catch enough carp to cause major problems by leaving them on shore for other critters to feed on. You could bury them in your garden or flower plot as fertilizer also.

its as bad as it ever was here in Australia

Nirvana fallacy. Look it up n grow up.

Carp can withstand a 100 degree temperature range and can breathe air. There's really nowhere a carp can't live as long as it's got water.

@@jw8687 j6

They are gross

@@tylerfish6206 they aren't. learn how to cook , and properly clean them, and they're fine.

They aren’t good fish to eat

@@LuxwaDZN the best cooks in world would rather not

Or the polar bears

They are good but so many small bones

Parts of Australia that is. Trying catching a native fish in the Murray River, its impossible because of the carp levels. Australia is far from solving this problem

roy gunter --- cook them. Give to Cambodian family down the street.

No early spring fresh ice off, Keep to eat, garden, cats. Later in season kill pop air bladder return to water let rest of fish eat.

We have the same problem in Florida with a fish called a bowfin or a snake head. I also throw them away from the water. Next day, they are gone, raccoons think they taste great.

D Augusto snakeheads probably walked back into the water when you left lol

No, I had tossed them into some sticks. They crawl, but don't climb over 2 inch sticks. They were there later, dehydrated, and then gone, long after they were dead..

its a shame, it should be eaten, by who or whatever.

@@bosesebi6685 Nobody wants to eat that garbage. Blach! 😝

I ain’t seen many of those folks……

@@kerrytodd3753 Well open your eyes and look around when biden shut down the pipe line and 58,000 Americans lot their jobs in the first two weeks of his presidency and fuel sky rocketed and every thing blew up on prices there is a lot more Homeless Americans going hungry . People with full time jobs are out in the streets sleeping in cars because they cannot afford the rent. POS planned this they have interest in the rail transport business and now its carried by rail . A box of Kelloggs Corn flakes is $6.50 yeah chew on that no shit almost $7.00 for a box of corn! There are millions of Americans and Kids going hungry every night so wake up and smell the coffee because the crash is coming like a freight train

Different Carp .....America has Asian Carp......a lot of Europes Carp were actually bred for eating......less bones.

Algae blooms are lack of movement in the water and low water levels.

More likely due to ferlizers running off farms into the water.

Here in Oz we are using them for animal supplements, aquaculture pellets, fertilisers, fish leather, and increasingly, to put on the table.

@@garfieldnotthecat5777 "and increasingly, to put on the table". WHAT!, I'm in my 60's and have NEVER known anybody who eats Carp in Australia. Some Poms quite like them, But there are not that many of them. You certainly don't see it much for sale.

@@MOREENGINEERING , i'm also in my 60's "and have NEVER known anybody to eat Carp in Australia". Especially here in Perth where we don't have the problem. However, I am sure I saw a program on tv whereby chefs over east were experimenting with putting them on the table. Apparently the chef and presenter reckoned it tasted alright. Also they were presenting Australian salmon for the table. That I have eaten, and it's bloody yummy when looked after, i.e. put in ice slurry after bleeding and then deep fried in batter.

they fight pretty good too, and are good eating..and can get very big. good gamefish for sure...in Korea carp are widely targetted and always eaten, and can be expensive in restaurants.

Hans, one of the reasons Carp fishing is so popular in western europe, is that most other freshwater game fish have been pretty much wiped out...A good example on how not to manage fisheries. Russia, on the other hand, is a completely different story.

@@BAlvn-yr6ej Yes, carp are extremely popular in Asia, & have been for thousands (seriously) of years.

That is the best fighting freshwater fish I love catching carp especially on light tackle

The Freaks,from England pay upwards of £2000 a year to fish a lake with good carp in them .buisness opertunity I think .

like Europeans coming to America type of standards?

Lucas Johnson, they could become like carp in another lake.

Corpses are edible too should we eat those as well? Something being edible is not the only criteria for something being worth exporting as food.

@@GhostOfBuscemicarps aren’t bad eating at all lol

LMAO. You ever ate Carp? They're better off as fertilizer or pig food.

Yes. I have eaten carp before. A bit muddy because they are fresh water and also bottom feeders, but they are totally edible and safe to eat. When you think of so many poor and needy people on this earth, and here are people just discarding these edible fish like they were some contaminant. You should know that most pet food sold in supermarkets are not consumed by cats and dogs, but eaten by people too poor to afford "human" food.

They need to be bled properly. That will remove much of the mud taste. Then fillet without skin. Also when eating be aware of many small bones. If you do that the fish is fine to eat.

People from USA are bunch of idiots. They don't know if the food is edible or not. The only food the know are those that come from Super Markets, because they are too ignorant to study and distinguish the edibles from non-edibles. They are really picky eaters and very wasteful. Their taste are same of those 1 year old kids, the same as their intellectual capacity.

How can you make carp from the Mississippi River "tasty"? I'd like to know because there are no regulations about them - no season, no limits.

idiots

@@bosesebi6685 They breed like flies and stir up the river bottoms to lay tens of thousands of eggs. They drive out all of the native species and foul the waterways. Some idiot thought it would be a good idea to release them into our river systems. We have the European variety and they are just as invasive as the Asian variety and just as unpalatable . 🥵🇦🇺👍😷😷😷

@@miksal26 so you just go ahead and try to kill them all and dump the bodies, like water buffalo, camels and other living things. F that, you should be happy that in your god forsaken land with nothing but poisonus animals and saltwater crocks, you are getting something else.

I think you are thinking of catfish, you have to remove the "mud vein".

@@tinknal6449 Maybe in a mud cat, which we used to catch in the Duck River, in Tennessee. They were very strong tasting. I never removed a vein from them, when cleaning, though. They weren't inedible, just a very strong fish flavor. I've cleaned a lot of fish, including catfish. But what you are referring to, I do believe is what you had to remove from carp. I can't say I knew any white people who prepared and ate carp, but plenty of black folks did. They removed something, probably the mud vein, to make it edible.

@@tinknal6449 I did, just go and look for catfish mud vein removal, and there are vids on how to remove it. The strong taste must not have bothered me and my family, as we never did remove that. I watched a couple of vids on carp. One guy only kept the rib meat. Others kept entire slabs. One vid showed a green mass being pulled from the carp, and said it was the egg sack, and was excellent fried, if kept intact. Yuck! But I know folks used to tell me there was something you had to do to carp. Always ate catfish. Never had carp, although I have caught a mess of them.

@@itsnotthesamething I hear ya, I am always amused by people who complain that fish tastes like.....fish!

Joan Thakker I like it make it rain fish and have them all question their reality

Joan Thakker... Ha ha US is more starving than N korea

`they are confined to ponds so they are not a problem ...

Carp are a warm water species. The UK is very high on the latitude arena which makes the water cold. Of course they aren't going to be a problem. The carp in Bear Lake Utah are there, but they are under control because the water is too cold to support an over abundance of carp.

lord cu mopton , no they are not confined to ponds/lakes, here in the UK most of our main rivers have a healthy stocks as well.

Paul, you can't argue with them, they don't do facts :). Utah lake is hyper-eutrophic, the more natural species have struggled with the pollution and algae blooms whilst the carp have survived as they tolerate lower oxygen levels. They can remove every single carp if they want, it still wont bring back there bass and trout as the water itself is gubbed! The fact that Utah has an almost identical climate to southern UK also seems to not register with them.

As the saying goes, “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” Carp keep the turbidity of the lake high by constantly grazing the plant life. This makes it hard for the June sucker to exist. Another fact, since you love facts so much, carp amount to 90% of the lakes biomass. BTW, there are a couple of different types of bass in Utah Lake.

top food man, only idiots would waste it.

@@bosesebi6685 You like carp? Then YOU eat them.

Carp is still cultivated as a food source virtually across entire world, except US where any fish that has bones is considered a thrash fish. If prepared right carp is surprisingly tasty.

Why you giving them away ? Can them sell them use the money to do the work The Clinton foundation was paid to do and never done . . china has made enough money off The U.S

They will process it, can it, and sell it back to us as salmon.

They are from China lol

they will just add lead, make it into kids toys and sell it back.

steven morty maybe they will stop eating dogs and cats

Like catching an old tire.

Sometimes, even more so than a largemouth bass!

@@MrOhgoodgolly Stick to catching your old tires...

Impossible. These came from Europe.

hey we feed every other country we might as well feed china too free carp to everyone

with the trade war, USA can keep the carp. Blame warmongering Trump then !

@@utahlakeauthority Is there a relationship to the past couple of years' algae infestation in mid-late summer and all this structural change in fish volumes - eg., the carp count reduction. (I live in Saratoga Springs just barely off Jordan River exits of it.)

Australia has one of the worst invasive species problem on the planet. It would be fun to be a hunter; open season on all sorts of stuff. I think it's always open season here for coyotes; they crossed the Mississippi on some of the bridges so now we have them in the east.

Fon, as it should be.

Jenny Lee same in New Zealand. Huge fines if caught with Carp or Koi. And we have a problem with some immigrants flouting the law and selling Koi. Big fines for them. Kim from New Zealand

The state of Florida is a mess with released parrots, aquarium fish and maybe worst, the constrictors who seem to just love the Evergreen swamp. The lion fish is a tiny fish in aquariums and very pretty but when released they grow and eat every thing that the native species need to survive. Spear gun divers can make a living selling them to local restaurants because apparently they are delicious.

Most sea critters eat dead things. A dead fish tastes pretty good after it's run through a crab.