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

Since it was accidentally released into the Mississippi River 30 years ago, a relentless aquatic invader —the Asian Carp—has been heading north. Famous for their insatiable hunger and their Olympic high jumping, Asian Carp are now only 100 kilometers south of Lake Michigan. Narrated by David Suzuki, Carpe Diem explores a complicated fight, involving a wide array of tools from crossbows to electrodes, against an impressive species of fish, which is really just doing what it does best—surviving. Down south, where the battle has been lost, people are beginning to see the fish as a resource and are starting to eat it. Is this the answer to this Fishy problem?

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[jamesrogalski]

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.

[jayandrusiak]

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

[csabavarady]

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.

[mushroomman]

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.❤

[needmoreramsay]

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.

[brycebullard]

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.

[christophersibley]

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 ?

[aleenaprasannan]

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

[baldieman]

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.

[bellgab]

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.

[lilaknowler]

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

[serectas]

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

[TheWisendorf]

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..

[johnholmes]

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

[lynnleigha]

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

[chengkeattan]

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.

[brisbanekilarny]

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.

[ryanbrown]

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

[johnc]

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.

[tiffsaver]

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.