(06-03-2012, 08:30 AM)Nystul Wrote:(06-02-2012, 12:01 PM)eppie Wrote: You have carp.....can't they take them out and use them for something? Huge quantities of animal-biomass that you can use without damaging a ecosystem (even helping it) are scarce these days. The seas in 20 years will only have jellyfish....and they are 99% water so harvesting them will probably never be economcially feasible...and we first need to find a use for them.
When something gets introduced to one of the Great Lakes, "taking them out" is no small thing. People want to eat walleye, perch, and a few other local treats. Asian carp, not so much.
So does it really taste bad or does it just have a bad name? If so you need some kind of campaign. It happened before with the south pacific hake I believe. Some cooks started experimenting and finally it became very popular. This would work unless indeed it really tastes like crap.
Humans manage to completely drain parts of ocean from all living things.....because indeed there is good money in it. So if it would be possible to sell Asian carp it would take a matter of a few years before the great lakes are empty again.
wikipedia actually has a nice article about this.