Asian Carp protein powder - Eat MO Carp

[Johnsfolly]

Interesting read. Would love to see a real commercial use for Asian carp. 

https://www.ksdk.com/article/life/food/eat-mo-carp-missouri-fish-fry-season/63-9c120516-ac4d-4bbc-8619-b148754c4ea8

[nomolites]

30 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

Interesting read. Would love to see a real commercial use for Asian carp. 

https://www.ksdk.com/article/life/food/eat-mo-carp-missouri-fish-fry-season/63-9c120516-ac4d-4bbc-8619-b148754c4ea8

I’ve heard there is at least one protein powder supplement that has Asian Carp commercially caught from the Mississippi as a key ingredient.  It makes good logical sense, but certainly would be a challenge to openly market.

Mike

[tjm]

I would think they could be fed to hogs, made into pet food, or converted to fertilizer economically and I'm surprised they haven't been.  I had kinda assumed that catching them economically in quantity must be a problem?

[fishinwrench]

I think first you need to determine the cost of processing and turning the flesh into powder, and then compare to how much a pound of that powder is worth.  Then of course you'd have the FDA to reckon with.

If it was anywhere near worthwhile then somebody would be doing it.  

[bfishn]

Turn it into trout feed, which is already 90% fish meal. That's ~85/100 conversion rate to a commercially desirable product.

[jdmidwest]

15 minutes ago, bfishn said:

Turn it into trout feed, which is already 90% fish meal. That's ~85/100 conversion rate to a commercially desirable product.

Then the trout park trout will taste like carp...  I like the liver taste better, makes the meat nice, gray, and mushy.

[96 CHAMP]

I'll pass on it.

[fishinwrench]

1 hour ago, jdmidwest said:

Then the trout park trout will taste like carp...  I like the liver taste better, makes the meat nice, gray, and mushy.

Yeah that's a real thing.   We did foil bakes the last time we camped at the river below Bennett, and you could tell after the first bite, which one's had been in the river awhile.    

[dblades]

I remember trout fishing in the mountain lakes in Arizona that the state stocked regularly. Definitely could tell a fresh stocked fish from on that had been in the lake for a while, a different taste and texture.

[Terrierman]

On 2/16/2024 at 7:47 PM, tjm said:

I would think they could be fed to hogs, made into pet food, or converted to fertilizer economically and I'm surprised they haven't been.  I had kinda assumed that catching them economically in quantity must be a problem?

I knew the people that ran the Mountain Springs trout farm.  They had the great idea to feed all the fish guts, dead fish and such to their pigs.  Bad idea, the meat had a definite fishy taste.  But what they fed was not processed into commercial feed, it was just the raw waste.