We’ve eliminated all sorts of animal species without really trying. Yet, when it comes to the Asian carp, the obvious seems to get overlooked.
In case you don’t understand what happened, these carp were imported from Southeast Asia to the southern U.S. to help aquaculture and wastewater treatment facilities keep retention ponds clean. Asian carp love to eat plankton, algae and other microscopic organisms.
According to multiple websites I visited, these fish are not really carp and are not bottom feeders, which carp are. The fish tend to eat stuff off the surface of the water, which makes them one of the safest fishes to eat because their mercury levels are very low.
Read the story by Phil Kadner:
http://southtownstar.suntimes.com
