Fighting Invasive Fish With Forks and Knives 180
An anonymous reader writes NPR commentator Bonny Wolf has a unique solution to battle the threat of invasive fish species in our waterways. She proposes we fight them with a knife, fork, and a few lemon wedges. From the article: "Take the northern snakehead, which has made its way into tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. It competes with native species for food, and then eats the native species, not to mention the odd frog or bird, with its mouthful of sharp teeth. It's been called "Fishzilla." It breeds fast, has no natural predators and can grow to be 4 feet long. The northern snakehead hangs out in grassy shallows, making it hard to catch. But a couple of years ago, Maryland started promoting the snakehead as an eating fish. Its harvest has increased from zero to 5,000 pounds a year."
What kind of fish? (Score:5, Funny)
I think the fish accidentally a word there with its mouthful of teeth!
Take the ??? (Score:2, Funny)
1. Take the ???.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Genius.
Like my mamma always taught me (Score:4, Funny)
...sometimes all you have to do is eat the problem.
The Comma Fish (Score:5, Funny)
closely related to the silverback semicolon, but watch out for those pointy asterisks
An idea (Score:4, Funny)
Hmmm, can we legalize cannibalism of politicians?
Already started (Score:5, Funny)
The editors have already begun this process by eating the very name of the fish in question.
Re:Take the , (Score:5, Funny)
Clearly it's the rare but apparently also invasive comma-fish, often abbreviated as the ,
Re: An idea (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Take the , (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps they meant evasive species.
Re:Like my mamma always taught me (Score:0, Funny)
Yes. Anyone got any good recipes for roast communist?
Re:Bioaccumulation Ahoy (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What kind of fish? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe I'm setting the bar too low.
Re:What kind of fish? (Score:5, Funny)
We have an overabundance of carp here. Normally eating carp seems to be an ethnic thing around here.Even then, only an older generation bothers with it. I would like the world to come and rid the Mid U.S. of carp, so I have included the only recipe I know for carp.
1 pressure cooker
1 5-lb. rock
1 carp
Pressure cook the meat till it slips from the bone (about 2 hours) let cool, discard the fish and eat the rock.
Here's the problem (Score:2, Funny)
The Asian Carp tastes like shit. It's a greasy, nasty-tasting meat with a mushy texture. Maybe if you put enough breading and spices and deep fry it long enough, you might be able to turn it into a mystery meat and pass it off to someone starving.
It sounds like a great idea, but no. Maybe it could be ground up and fed to cats or used as fertilizer. It would be preferable to then bread and deep fry the cat and eat that then to eat an Asian Carp.
And before you tell me that they eat Asian Carp in some god-forsaken hell-hole on the other side in the world, I would also remind you that the same thing could be said about the cat.
Eating Invasive species? (Score:4, Funny)
but I dont want to eat Americans, they will be high in fat and taste horrible due to all the steroids and hormones they ingest in their meat and the beer that tastes like piss they drink.
Almost there (Score:5, Funny)
Now all we need is some invasive species of chips.
Re:What kind of fish? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What kind of fish? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What kind of fish? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, except the one guy who was paid to read the summary didn't.
What better way to have truly objective reporting, than editors who have no idea what's even in the story before they greenlight it! It's the ultimate in fair and balanced journalism.