From the outbox of Meyer’s video inbox:
A while back I put up a piece about an Asian carp invasion threatening to take over Lake Michigan. Federal officials tried poisoning the river to kill the carp. Didn’t work. Now comes a brand new solution: let’s just eat them into extinction. Here’s a report from the ABC News. Bottom line: fish cakes all around will save the day! Pass the tarter sauce.
ASIAN CARP: IF YOU CAN’T BEAT ‘EM, EAT ‘EM
At this week’s National Grocers Association convention in Las Vegas, celebrity chef Philippe Parola was touting his new favorite fish. “[It has] 70-percent more Omega-3 than in catfish and tilapia,” an animated Parola told an assembled crowd at his booth. “No mercury because it’s a filter fish.”
Parola was talking about the Asian carp — a slimy, boney fish that breeds quickly and is widely considered a pest. Parola’s message: Eat the carp. Save the Great Lakes.
“It’s amazing how these fish are taking over,” Parola said. “We need to do something.”
After being imported from China during the 1970s to clean fish farms of algae in the southern U.S., the Asian carp steadily spread north up the Mississippi and other rivers.
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