"Pass the Carp, please"...(New video added)

[Rebelss]

Looks like we're on the menu for a "Carp processing plant".....hmmmmm...

Here's a new Video link...click on pic on right side titled "First carp processing plant"

http://www.kttc.com/category/131445/video



Business
Carp processor opens plant in Wabasha
 
Share  Posted: Jan 20, 2012, 11:18 am

WABASHA, Minn. — An Australian company that processes carp will open its first U.S. facility in Wabasha on Friday.

Carp may not be popular on menus in the U.S., but it's widely eaten in Eastern Europe and Asia. Keith Bell of K & C Fisheries says in China, the carp is steamed with vegetables for the main meal. In Poland, Bell says the fish is canned with vegetables or is baked for Christmas dinner.

Bell and his wife, Cate, began exploring the upper Mississippi River as a place to grow their business after several years of drought in Australia made it difficult to harvest carp there.
 
                                                   

[Skipper]

They want to commercially fish carp?

[Rebelss]

Nope...it was on the news, too, last night...they're buying the carp, having it trucked it, and processing it....wasn't clear if they are going to be netting for any, though...

[captain54]

They can get all the want from THE GREAT PYMY in NW PA. People come all summer long to feed them bread.

[Rebelss]

Added this to the original...

http://www.kttc.com/category/131445/video

Click on "First Carp prcossening plant" on the right side videos...

Looks like they have nets in the Mississippi, if you watch the video closely.....hmmmm..

[Skipper]

It sure looked like nets and river ice to me.... I hope those nets only catch water pigs.

[mn man 1]

Whats your take? Good for fishing overall? Or is it bad?
I think it may be good, especially with the Asian Carp moving in, maybe this would help?
Or I could be completely wrong and somebody should tell me so. 

[Rebelss]

I don't know...anytime they start seining and net dragging in a river for a certain species, it bothers me...will it upset Nature's balance in some way? 

[Skipper]

Carp are non-native invasive fish from Europe and Asia. I would think that their total eradication could only serve to provide more forage for native species. 

[Rebelss]

True...but a large, sudden downfall of numbers in a vegetation-consuming creature, rather non-native or not, does that have any influence on the propagation of river structure, vegetation in form, in a primarily mud bottom area that has slow moving pools of water, as in the Wabasha area? What other fish will be caught /killed if they net in this area?  Will it impede other fish propagation, stirring up of nesting areas, etc.? Will the harvest of carp be enough to force the increased growth of vegetation? Will that affect the water quality or improve it, as this area has large amounts of suspended silt...and seining is well known to increase sedimentation of suspended silt particles.
These are all questions I'd like to see asked before they start a year-round harvest in some of the best panfishing and walleye waters in SE Minnesota...
Recent reports show that Carp consumption has dropped dramatically in Europeon countries, due to salmon and other edible fish farming, and cheaper importation of same from China/Japan. Makes me wonder if there's another reason behind it all..... I feel it's our right to be totally informed....

[Skipper]

True... They like to rut up the non native vegetation. I guess the ecosystem needs to be managed as it is, not how it was or how we would like it to be.

I don't much like nets either, but that is a subject that a person from Mille Lacs county knows well.