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Fighting Invasive Fish With Forks and Knives

Posted by samzenpus on from the don't-forget-the-tartar dept.

An anonymous reader writes NPR commentator Bonny Wolf has a unique solution to battle the threat of invasive fish species in our waterways. She proposes we fight them with a knife, fork, and a few lemon wedges. From the article: "Take the northern snakehead, which has made its way into tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay. It competes with native species for food, and then eats the native species, not to mention the odd frog or bird, with its mouthful of sharp teeth. It's been called "Fishzilla." It breeds fast, has no natural predators and can grow to be 4 feet long. The northern snakehead hangs out in grassy shallows, making it hard to catch. But a couple of years ago, Maryland started promoting the snakehead as an eating fish. Its harvest has increased from zero to 5,000 pounds a year."

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  1. What kind of fish? by statusbar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think the fish accidentally a word there with its mouthful of teeth!

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    1. Re:What kind of fish? by guises · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bizarrely, I am encouraged that so many posts are pointing out the missing name. "Wow," I'm saying to myself, "The first three posts are all by people who have read the summary and not just the title." A tiny victory for intelligent discourse.

      Maybe I'm setting the bar too low.

    2. Re:What kind of fish? by flyneye · · Score: 5, Funny

      We have an overabundance of carp here. Normally eating carp seems to be an ethnic thing around here.Even then, only an older generation bothers with it. I would like the world to come and rid the Mid U.S. of carp, so I have included the only recipe I know for carp.
              1 pressure cooker
                1 5-lb. rock
                1 carp
                Pressure cook the meat till it slips from the bone (about 2 hours) let cool, discard the fish and eat the rock.

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    3. Re:What kind of fish? by slashdice · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, except the one guy who was paid to read the summary didn't.

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    4. Re:What kind of fish? by Tyrannicsupremacy · · Score: 5, Funny

      A fish so terrible it must not be named!!!

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  2. The Comma Fish by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    closely related to the silverback semicolon, but watch out for those pointy asterisks

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  3. Already started by LordLucless · · Score: 5, Funny

    The editors have already begun this process by eating the very name of the fish in question.

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  4. Re:Take the , by Trogre · · Score: 5, Funny

    Clearly it's the rare but apparently also invasive comma-fish, often abbreviated as the ,

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  5. Re: An idea by Type44Q · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the words out of their mouths are any indication, they're guaranteed to taste like shit.

  6. Almost there by nospam007 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now all we need is some invasive species of chips.