What do you guys do when you catch invasive carp? I’m starting to notice a lot/catch a few of them in the backwaters of my local river. There are plenty of fish species there I usually catch as well, so I don’t want the carp to take over. I’d rather not return them to the water, but I don’t really want to just throw them away.
Is there something actually useful I can do with them? Do you give them to people who can make good use of them? All suggestions appreciated bros
So we have a lot of Pleco in our waters, which are an invasive armored catfish from South America. They have no natural predator, and nobody eats them. Everybody who catches one just leaves them on the shoreline to die. It sucks, but you have to put the native ecosystem first
just fyi - you need to kill them and bag them. Otherwise the eggs end up back in the water.
Carp and plecos don't have internal fertilization. Any eggs inside the fish would be unviable because they never got fertilized by sperm, moron.
>moron
You're the moron here Anon. Carp have been shown to invade even the most remote mountain lakes in this way.
Holy carp the eggs are like seeds. Man intelligent design truly is amazing.
Huh. TIL. I guess nature, uh, finds a way.
It doesn’t state whether the eggs were fertilized first or not, which is the crux of the disagreement
It does.
>developing eggs
So they fed them fertilized eggs, not corpses with eggs internally that hadn't been laid yet.
We're talking about dead fish left on the bank, not eggs that have already been laid. moron.
Parthenogenesis has been recorded in carp though and its not even that uncommon, so there very well could be fertilised eggs in a dead carp anyways
Except ducks are fully capable of eating eggs that have already been laid?
Eat them.
>ew carp is a bottom feeder
I said what I said. It's a fish. I eat them.
Prove it.
My grandfather taught me this. You can literally eat any fish you catch in North America. If it’s supposedly unpalatable, just fry it.
>eww, mullet!
>eww, hardheaded catfish!
>eww, needle fish!
>eww, alligator fat!
Papa would call those guys “fruits.” Did I mention he snorted coke and had a camper can to frick my grandma? Literally the most based man to ever live.
Yeah, i bet
Ive thought about that too. With how plentiful they seem though, probably going to catch way more than I can eat. Probably can give the meat away though. Any suggestions on cooking them?
Carp have a shit ton of bones though. They taste decent enough but not really worth all the effort of cleaning it.
Just cook it with the bones and eat around them ding dong
Make soup.
Fish balls/cakes.
I feed my dogs everything we don't eat, and this would be one of those things. Put it in the crockpot overnight with some water and done. My wife would separate the flesh from the bones and remove the smallest ones. Sometimes she puts them in the food processor. We don't usually use fish, but I think it would be similar. Chickens also eat anything you throw at them if you got some.
Here in SW Florida, we have a number of invasive species. When I catch them, I poke out both of their eyes, maybe cut off a couple of fins, and throw them back to get eaten by gators and other wildlife.
Inb4 "omg yur so cruel!!" I don't have any fricks to give, so....
Cut their heads off and throw them back in to be eaten by birds or other fish.
why would you put them back in the water. that is how you spread the eggs you dingus. It's almost like this sub is full of idiots that don't actually go
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The eggs can't hatch in a corpse dipshit
Birds pick them up and eat them. Ducks shit out the eggs. This is well known, not to throw them around and to dispose of them properly. Now Shut up you idiot.
Haven't tried any recipes yet myself but here's a free cookbook
https://riversofcarbon.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/carp-recipe-ebook-A5.pdf
Spike their head with a bait knife and throw them in the bushes. Plenty of animals around that will appreciate the meal.
Make fish hydrolysate and use them in the garden or bury them like the natives did to enrich the soil
Carp are native here but I do kill everything invasive that I catch. We have small catfish that only reach 7 Inch or so (our native ones get upt to 9-10 feet) that taste quite decent, you can just cut their spine behind the head and pull off the skin. Also round goby, but those are probably just good fertilizer. Some black bass have been seen and C&Rers are going crazy and want to spread them, but if I ever get one its getting a nice knife in the heart.
Where rhe frick do you live?
>our native [catfish] get upt to 9-10 feet
Sounds like eastern Europe
Sounds like Spain to me.
Throw it on the shore like they do with invasive smallmouth bass where I live
This is the correct answer. Not cutting them up and throwing them back. Catch them, toss them on the shore.
you whack em on the head then toss them over to the asian guy fishing next to you.
Most people here bowfish for them. There's always "people" fishing off the bank at the marinas who are happy to take them. I've been wanting to try spearfishing them, they're one of the few species you're allowed to shoot in freshwater here, but I still haven't had time to make that happen.
My favorite bass lake is getting overran with them. Makes me want to take my 10/22 and shoot every one I see.