Asian Carp.
These are the bizarro invasive fish that are really causing ecological and navigational issues along the Mississippi River and other inland waterways.
I wrote about them here on Mattchat back in April:
So now, there's a company down in one of my very favorite little river towns (Grafton Illinois) that is one of several who have a solution to getting rid of them.
When they arrive at the processing plant, the fish that have been cursed as a menace to American lakes and rivers are raked onto a conveyer belt, some of them still flopping. Brought by the boatload to this facility north of St. Louis, the Asian carp quickly meet a gruesome fate: They are ground to a bloody pulp in a maze of machines that churn their bony bodies into dehydrated meal and fish oil.
Catch the drift?
Catch them. Then grind them up.
CHUM 'EM !
Dang, I would love to tour this plant! Can you imagine the smell? And the sounds of fish being chummed up?
Read more about this:
Question is.... how big is the supply? Can enough be caught to keep this plant running?
And how do you protect the other fish species (catfish, bass, etc.) from being overfished?
This quote from the article is awesome:
“No one is getting rich on (carp processing) — not yet anyway. But you might as well make lemonade from lemons.”
Ugliest, slimiest, scaliest lemons that I've ever seen!
No shake-up for me please.
Out for now.....
Matt