Save the reefs

[voluptuary_manque]

Eat a fish!

 

[kromen]

I saw the story on CNN. They are as bad as Asian Carp in the midwest. At these bastards are edible, unlike the carp.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

I saw the story on CNN. They are as bad as Asian Carp in the midwest. At these bastards are edible, unlike the carp.

If you have enough Asians in the Midwest, they'll support a carp fishery. They love 'em. I'll bet some enterprising netter could find a ready market for grass carp here on the West Coast. You have to see the inside of a 99 Ranch market to believe it.

 

[TE999]

Another advantage to eating this critter has it's poison on the outside unlike a blowfish.

 

[SeaCat]

Nothing wrong with Lion Fish. I've eaten it a few times and enjoyed it. You just have to be carefull when handling it. (The only ones I've eaten were the ones I've spiked with a Sling.)

As for Carp. I've had it a couple of times and didn't find it to my taste. Kind of a muddy taste.

Cat

 

[amicus]

Seems to me a program I watched noted that Starfish are the biggest reef predators and that entire sections of the Great Barrier Reef have been decimated by these critturs.

&, other than drying them and tacking them to a wall, I don't think they are human edible, but they did introduce some other critter that dined on Starfish, but I forget just what it was?

ami

 

[JackLuis]

Seems to me a program I watched noted that Starfish are the biggest reef predators and that entire sections of the Great Barrier Reef have been decimated by these critturs.

&, other than drying them and tacking them to a wall, I don't think they are human edible, but they did introduce some other critter that dined on Starfish, but I forget just what it was?

ami

That was the "Crown of Thorns" starfish but I don't think they found a predator for them. A few years ago skin and scuba divers were injecting them with formaldehyde trying to reduce thier populations on critical reefs. I don't think they over came the egg laying capacity of the starfish though.

 

[SeaCat]

That was the "Crown of Thorns" starfish but I don't think they found a predator for them. A few years ago skin and scuba divers were injecting them with formaldehyde trying to reduce thier populations on critical reefs. I don't think they over came the egg laying capacity of the starfish though.

It's not just the egg laying capacity. If you cut a Starfish into five parts it grows into five starfish.

AS far as I know Starfish aren't eaten. (Too bad there are certainly enough of them to alleviate starvation in many places.)

Cat

 

[voluptuary_manque]

As I understand the problem, the main predator on the COT starfish is a fish that people find delectable. We overfished the top predators, something we seem to do in the wrong places. Eat more lionfish!

 

[amicus]

As I understand the problem, the main predator on the COT starfish is a fish that people find delectable. We overfished the top predators, something we seem to do in the wrong places. Eat more lionfish!

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Would you care to document that, please?

ami

 

[voluptuary_manque]

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Would you care to document that, please?

ami

No, I can't be bothered. Look it up yourself if you feel like arguing about it.

 

[amicus]

It is not and seldom is a point of arguing, but accuracy.

You made a political statement about man overfishing, you were wrong. You could as well have blamed it on Global Warming, rising ocean temperatures, but, you would be wrong again.

You could be courteous and apologetic, as a normal person would be when in error, or...?

Amicus Veritas

 

[Handley_Page]

As for Carp. I've had it a couple of times and didn't find it to my taste. Kind of a muddy taste.

Cat

As I understand it the Carp family of fish has to be flushed, soaked or otherwise 'de-mudded' for 24 hr first.