Proposal to separate the Great Lakes and Mississippi River

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Re: Proposal to separate the Great Lakes and Mississippi Riv

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...and they will all want boats too
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I think I read that it is too late to stop the carp from getting into the great lakes because they have been found in them already!
link http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/s ... lakes.html
Yea we are going to have to start eating them. link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfutebOJglA
Here is a website I go to when I am looking for good recipes. I mean great recipes! Well I've never seen a comment stared like this! link http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguide ... -bass.html
I've tried the local carp (what ever species that it is) and it is good. Large flakes of meat.
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by Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL » Mon Jun 03, 2013 7:43 am

Carp tastes like eagle.
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Funny thing is…eagles tastes like fish :P
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At the east end of Lake Erie it's safe to eat common carp (the now indigenous species) up to twice a week, if they aren't too big. In some areas at the west end of Lake Erie, pesticide/ mercury levels can make the larger ones not recommended to eat.

I've not seen any test results of the flesh yet, but the Asian Carp, low on the food chain, looks to be low in contaminants. If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em :wink: . People have been injured, at least one killed that I recall, by these jumping fish :cry: .

This time of year the common carp are spawning here, and they are so dense in groups of hundreds on top of each other that their fins protrude from the water. I've never tasted it (only because I've not had the opportunity), but the local Chinese love them – they fish right off the beach in front of my house, surprisingly with some success, even though fish don't usually bite while spawning.

I guess these fishermen just don't know that the way to get Carpasians is with phazers on stun. :D
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dlandersson wrote:...and they' STILL want you to catch and cook it for them... :P
K9Kampers wrote:
ualpow wrote:How about feeding the homeless or welfare people in need and save some of that budget?
Give the homeless & welfare an Asian Carp and they'll eat for a day. Teach the homeless & welfare to fish for Asian Carp...
Catigale wrote:...and they will all want boats too
Wow...and they say sailors are a bunch of presumptuous, pompous asses.
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Re: Proposal to separate the Great Lakes and Mississippi Riv

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Bill at BOATS 4 SAIL wrote:Carp tastes like eagle.
Hey Bill, are you going to be a Tattoo dealer? Are things going to work out OK for you and the other Mac dealers?

~Rich
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