Would You Be More Willing To Try...

[eric1978]

And honestly, I'm not sure how much worse eating something out of the MS or MO rivers is than eating fish from the Big, Black, LOZ, or parts of the Neosho watershed.

Agreed. I really don't like eating fish out of anything but farm ponds on inactive farms or out of the upper reaches of a stream...and even then I still have this nagging feeling it's not really clean. But the garbage we get from the grocery store has some amount of inorganic crap in it, too, whether it be contamination, antibiotics, hormones, etc.

I know the Asian Carp are filter feeders and grow quickly and therefore won't build up the amounts of heavy metals that other fish do, so you probably won't grow an arm out of your forehead if you eat a few. But you are what you eat, and the carp we consume is just as contaminated as whatever nastiness the plankton consume, and so on.

[Mitch f]

The Chinese also eat dogs.

No, thank you.

There is nothing wrong with eating carp, fixed correctly it is very good. The grass carp in China is one of the most sought after table fare. Remember they believe

you should always eat fish and meat bone-in so they have no problem with the small bones. Americans are the ones who insist on filleting fish, the chinese think that ruins the taste.

I wont eat dog either by the way

[Al Agnew]

The best way I've eaten common carp is canned. Fillet the fish but leave the small bones in. Can it, but don't ask me how you do that, don't know. Tastes like canned salmon but sweeter. I suspect you could do these carp the same way.