America's Most Hated Fish Are Being Purged By Electric Shocks and Sound

America can't eat its way out of this problem.

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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[VICENews]

America can't eat its way out of this problem.

[kylegrundskies]

I like how it starts with a major environmental crisis and ends in a hot dog review

[LordTrayus]

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

[architectinth]

Words I never thought I would hear. "It's going to be hard for the US to eat their way through this problem."

[ohlordy]

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.

[achillesrodriguezxx]

Carp is considered a delicacy here in asia. Maybe y'all could export these pests her for an affordable price.

[argacc]

Just Process it like fish sausage, it can feed many people. For the bone try using pressure cooker, in Indonesia we have dish called "bandeng presto", instead removing the bone, we make it edible

[kingk]

Why not making cat’s food with them ? There is always a positive issue .

[davealmighty]

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.

[Invictum]

Vice News: “America can’t eat their way out of this problem”

America: “Hold my beer”

[benziongisser]

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

[RodneyKimbangu]

Entitled humans: I don't like to eat fish with bones.
Fish: I am gonna breed faster and faster until you do.

[Jerseyshore]

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.

[thatmechatard]

Me, an Asian whos see this as a business opportunity:

*it's free real estate*

[RayT]

"Americans don't like to eat fish that have bones in them"

What fish has no bones? Jelly fish?

[aidanarmstrong]

When America can’t eat they’re way out of a problem, thats when you know that the problem is next level

[diegoroswell]

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.

[jacksparro]

"Elevator sounds scare the carp but not the native fish."
Elevator manufacturers deserve a patent for this amazing invention.

[earth]

"Well-intentioned scientists... Of course that backfired."

Every. Damn. Time.

[justmiles]

*"America don't like the fish with bones in them"*
What are they? A toddler