[Rebelbase]

What a world we live in. Bony trash fish are caught in the US to be sent to Vietnam to be de-boned then returned as filet to the US market.

Asian Carp = trash fish but Silver Fin = tasty and marketable.

[Rebelbase]

[pgkdan]

You don’t even need gear to catch the damn things...they jump right in your boat.

[PJ-Comix]

Mississippi Jumping Trout sounds better than Silver Fin.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Silverfin is not that appetizing a name.
Why not something like Butterflake Yumfish?

[PJ-Comix]

Most successful fish name change from a marketing POV was rebranding Patagonian Toothfish as Chilean Sea Bass. BTW, they are incredibly UGLY and look nothing like sea bass.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I wouldn’t eat those damn things. Might as well eat the meals from the Temple of Doom movie.

[Vaquero]

Feed them bones and all to pigs. Turn them into bacon!

[Vince Ferrer]

Asian carp prosessing plant in Kentucky

[forgotten man]

The chef should prepare recipes for other invasive non native species. Grilled Burmese Python, roasted nutria, chocolate covered Argentine ants, steamed tumbleweed, would be good.

[Gamecock]

VANESSA: Really? Could we go fishing up there?

JERRY: Yeah, we can fish. What? Blues, carp, marlin?

[yarddog]

Maybe 60 years ago, Florida tried to change the name of “Mullet” to “Lisa”. Apparently didn’t catch on. No problem as I love mullet. When I was a kid, in the late 50s and early 60s, the local supermarkets almost always had fresh mullet for 9 cents a pound.

[robroys woman]

I see fish as a sort of miracle food.

[yarddog]

In an episode of “Zatoichi” they describe an area as having delicious carp. In another they are serving red snapper at a banquet.

I always wondered if the translations were accurate. I can see the red snapper but carp?

[robroys woman]

Couldn’t they just be ground up for cat food and fertilizer?

[BlueLancer]

In the springtime up in Michigan, my four brothers and I, along with our mother, spent many weekends after the ice broke up on the Tittabawassee River, sitting on the bankside of a small creek that flowed into the river. Up that creek, every spring, sucker-mouth catfish would swim to spawn and we would sit there with five hooks in the water, drowning worms and catching suckers.

Every now and then, we would catch a golden carp (I guess, it's what's really known as a common or European carp). Whereas the suckers would mostly be pulled in pretty easily, those carp really gave us a fight. When .. and if .. we were able to haul them in, if they were more than 12 inches long, Mom told us to just toss them aside, that we would bury them in the garden for fertilizer. The ones that were less than a foot long, we kept and cooked up with the suckers. Not bad eatin' ...

[JimRed]

It does not appear to make much sense to ship the fish elsewhere for processing then back here for sale, but if there was not a profit involved they wouldn’t do it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Why can’t Americans come up with a good fish boning machine

[VietVet876]

I lived in Baltimore for some years and the local inner city denizen dwellers love them some Lake Trouts and Steak Fish. Lake Trouts are whiting. Steak Fish are hakes. A former co-worked named generic filets found in the local markets “Diesel Fish” because the 500 black ladies we saw would point to a pile of them and ask the purveyor “How much dees lil’ fish?”

[TXSearcher]

I had a great-aunt who wanted every common carp we could catch out of the river. She canned it and made what she called "Texas carp croquettes", which were really fine eating.

Wish I had gotten her recipe....the only thing I remember is that she cut out the back bone and the rest she put in a pressure cooker to soften the little bones.

[GnuThere]

Wouldn’t Walmart be better suited to rebrand the Asian crap?
Oh, I read that wrong.