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I had no idea carp from the lake are shipped out of UT and eaten.
Here's the article [url "http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=64247"]http://www.harktheherald.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=64247[/url] .
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[#505000]I have seen some good LOOKING chunks of meat come out of some carp I was processing as bait. I imagine breaded and deep fried they would taste pretty good. I think the biggest problem with eating carp is getting your mind around it. I ate carp when I was a wee lad and I remember it being rather good. [/#505000]
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[#505000]Being older and indoctorinated into the carp are disgusting crowd.... I think I would have a tougher time doing it now, but like I said before I've seen some nice looking cuts come out of some bait I was processing..........[/#505000]
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[#505000]Kinda makes you wonder what's in them Van De Kamps you get at the store eh?[/#505000]
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As has been mentioned several times, carp are eaten by many, or in other words, "One man's trash is another man's treasure".
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Mmmmm....tasty! I'd just as soon shoot them all, but hey, I've heard they are good, but I also know people who think chitlins (pig intestines) and tripe (cow stomach) is good, so to each their own.
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Can you say "Mrs. Paul's"?
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Do they need a special permit to transport them alive? As far as I'm concerned they didn't take enough of them!
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Yea I know people eat carp, I just didn't realize they are shipped alive, and then taken care of later. Seems like it would be easier and probably cheaper to kill them here. Freeze them and then transport.
I always figured the meat was chopped up for kitty litter or something else with the carp from around here.
Since these fish will be consumed by humans. Perhaps they have to watch/test them in a special tank for a period of time and possibly give them some vitamins or something.
Yea it does make me wonder now when I order fish at a resturaunt what I'm eating and where it came from. For some reason I kinda pictured fish coming out of a fish farm where they were raised their whole life.
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They have a permit to net/use/transport them. They've been doing if for many years, but it doesn't seem to put any kind of dent in the population. I actually think there are 2 companies that harvest the carp out of there.
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[cool]Makes you wonder how accurate the package is for fish sticks when it tells you cod or "sole" makes me now wonder if it's "sole of carp?"
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About 20 yrs. ago I spent a couple months hauling logs form an area northwest of Broadus Montana to a sawmill in Spearfish South Dakota. I had to go through a port of entry in Broadus & one day I had to wait while a truck with a refrigerated van trailer was on the scales. He couldn't get his weight correct on his axles. Either too heavy on the truck or too heavy on the trailer. He kept moving back & forth jamming his brakes on. I went into the port office & the officers in there were cracking up. Seems the truck was loaded with carp (48,000 pounds of them) headed for a fish food mill in Idaho. They told me that the trailer was just lined with Visqueen on the floor & about halfway up the walls & the carp were just loaded inside that loose. Every time the truck would move, the fish would slide forward or back & the load would shift too much for him to axle legal.
Hate to tell this part but the driver was a black man & the officers in the port were just making it tough on him. They finally let him go on because his gross weight was legal.
I'd have hated to have to clean that trailer up after he unloaded & I can just imagine the mess if he'd had to really slam on his brakes.
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Actually, Carp are great tasting fish. But here's the caveat - the reason they are shipped live is to get them in fresh running water for a couple of days to clear out the foul flavors of the waters from which they originate.
That is a common practice in many areas of the world with Carp - it does make a hugh difference in the taste.
I wish the DWR would change the rules for Carp and Bullheads ONLY - So, that a person could transport them live and use that technique so that they could stand to eat them without a ton of spices to cover the "off-flavor".
Now the smells involved with just getting the Carp anywhere would be a different story - I think a person would have to have the olefactory of a hound to appreciate the "roll in appeal" of that odor.
But then, maybe there would be some bucket-bozos planting them in other waters - I don't know why they would do it, but I think they would.
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Hey Carp Punisher you're almost right on the money with the Van de Kamps line. Only substitute with Kraft processed fish sticks, etc. Some of those carp netting boys I spoke with told me Kraft processes most of the Utah lake carp they harvest and it does turn into fish sticks, burgers, fries, and they claim that most restuarants serve them. Some are sold whole back east to Jewish communities that like to bake them. That's what they told me.
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