Some LinksAsian Carp Recipes. This page includes more than a dozen of them, in addition to instructions for cleaning and de-boning the fish. A few of the recipes refer to silver carp as "silverfin," a name which some have proposed would make it sound more appetizing.
Asian Carp Fish, LLC. If you want to buy Asian carp in a "20 ft & 40 ft container," then this is the site for you. I have never yet been able to find any web site that sells Asian carp in reasonable quantities for an individual consumer, nor have I ever seen Asian carp in any grocery store. As soon as I do, though, I will post it to this page. "On the Use of Melodramatic Rhetoric to Increase the American Market for Asian Carp Meat," a formal research paper I wrote for English 212, which includes a discussion of threats posed by Asian carp, an argument for the viability of reducing their population through commercial fishing, and a proposal for a method to bring their meat into the American market. |
Tough Times (Poem)
These are tough times For the Pacific cod. Its Atlantic cousin is already all but gone, And the bacalao business that built Boston Is a thing of the past, Fishing vessels no longer flocking around Cape Cod. Now the fleet picks its way around Alaska, Doing its best to appease our hunger for white, flaky flesh While leaving a few fish to catch next year. These are tough times For the bluefin tuna. Everybody was shocked when the first fish of this season Sold for a paltry Seventy thousand dollars. Bluefin make the best Sashimi, So fishermen arm themselves With longlines, seines, and harpoons, And scour the seas for them. They know the spectacular price of their muscled meat, As red as rubies and as rare, Getting rarer. These are good times For the silver carp. Things looked rough for them When they were overfished out East, Depleted drastically in their native rivers. They've found a new home, though. They've settled down in the Mississippi, The Missouri, the Ohio, and the Illinois, And they gobble plankton quicker Than we gobbled Atlantic cod, Outcompeting and uprooting the native fish, Leaving anglers out of luck. All the luck belongs to the silver carp. Somehow, it's the one fish whose white, flaky flesh Americans won't eat. --Joey Benevento |
This site was created by Joey Benevento in Emory University's Domain of One's Own Program as part of an English 212W class with Professor Marc Bousquet.