User talk:Dour High Arch

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Silver Carp
I'm a newbie to wiki in general and wikipedia in particular. Not sure how I am supposed to respond to your questions re: silver carp. Was I supposed to just hit (+) in the same page or go here, or what. Anyway, to answer your question, bighead and silver carps are extremely fecund, so they can withstand a lot of predation as young, and grow very large, very fast, so that adults or even older juveniles are too big to prey on by most predators (except man). Silver carp meat has an excellent flavor, if it is kept fresh (it deteriorates faster than most other fish) but they do not dress out well in comparison to other fishes native to North America. The percentage of meat on a fish is low, especially in bighead carp, and the filets have intramuscular bones, so even the filets are very bony. I have several projects underway to make these fish more palatable to North American tastes, by dealing with the bones in a variety of ways. In fact, I fear that some day I'll be managing for the fish, instead of against them, and that is disturbing to me, because I believe they do have negative effects on native fishes.

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