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This volume is a collection of essays on the effects emotions can have on social movements (as its title would suggest.) I used, in particular, its introduction, written by the editors, its first chapter, by Randall Collins, and its twelfth chapter, by Julian McAllister Groves. The book was of use to me in planning the presentation I would show to my test subjects before asking them whether they were willing to try Asian carp. The introduction and Collins's chapter detailed the sorts of emotion that could be effective in driving participation in a movement, which I then aimed to employ to drive people to participate in eating Asian carp. Groves's chapter, on the other hand, warned that overly emotional appeals are frowned upon, leading me to consider incorporating some hard, serious statistics into my presentation.
A lot of things I read made general claims about Asian carp outcompeting native species for food. However, this one actually studied the diets of native fish and Asian carp living in the same locations, and found their diets really do overlap with some native species, especially the gizzard shad, an essential forage fish. It was good to find a specific piece of research backing up what other reports seemed to take for granted. This is a lengthy and extensive plan for the control of Asian carp and two other species not of interest to me, with dozens of contributors from various government organizations, universities, and businesses. The plan is already seven years old, so I did not consider it a source of information on the current state of Asian carp; instead, I used it to help understand the history of attempts to reduce Asian carp. Of particular interest is the fact that it brings up the goal of increasing markets for Asian carp as a food fish, a goal that reappears in similar, more recent plans, and that forms the main focus of my research. This report, with eleven contributors, focuses specifically on cutting down Asian carp populations in the Illinois river through commercial fishing. I found it useful because it explains how carp populations have been depleted in places where they are used as food, thus giving plausibility to claims that the same could be done in the U.S. However, like other plans, it mentions the lack of an American market for Asian carp, the target of my research. This article discusses a study that aimed to capture silver carp and other planktivores in a few stream systems in the Dakotas, and that found-- surprise, surprise,--that Asian carp are increasing, coming to dominate the catch. The fact that Asian carp continue to expand and ravage new territory (the article's from 2014) shows the continuing urgency of finding a way to stop them. This report, put together by a number of local, state, and federal government agencies, explains the current state of invasive Asian carp and discusses potential actions to be taken against them. It was immensely useful for me to refer to it as a sort of synthesis of what is known so far about Asian carp--it's long and comprehensive, and it's recent, published in June 2014. I used it both for its explanations of the damage Asian carp can and have done in the U.S., and as evidence that the lack of a market for Asian carp, which it mentions yet again, persists today. This article provides statistics about the concentrations of mercury and toxic heavy metals in silver and bighead carp. It does not make generalized assessments of the safety of carp consumption, but it provides data I can compare to toxin concentrations in popular food fish and to guidelines for intake of mercury and other toxins, and thus infer how often it would be safe to consume Asian carp. This is a source statistics that pack an excellent shock value, including an estimate that in one stretch of river there were about 2544 silver carp (just silver, not counting bighead) per river mile. In the same area, silver carp alone outnumbered all other fish caught by the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program over the course of the year. These numbers aren't necessarily representative of the whole North American range of Asian carp, and I don't present them as such. Still, they serve as excellent examples of what Asian carp are capable of. An article that interestingly investigates the possibility of controlling Asian carp by using them for fish meal in aquaculture, or, simply put, grinding them up as feed for other fish. The article seems fairly optimistic about such a project, though it admits that Asian carp meal would need some kind of chemical stabilizer to increase its shelf life. The article is relevant to my research though, simply because it seems so ironic. Researchers are going through great pains to find a way we could use the carp as cheap food for farmed fish, when in other countries people are farming the carp themselves. If the carp can be caught cheaply enough to be used as fish food, then certainly it would make a cheap food fish itself. |