Asian carp threaten the Great Lakes. Will calling them ‘copi’ help?

We have all seen the videos of these jumping carp fleeing boats - an obvious evolutionary predation evasion. At the rate they are spreading this is a losing race - unless a specific toxin/predator can be found that will kill only these carp. It seems to me that a mechanical carp harvester that has flat extended flats on each side that are covered by a moving rubber mat like a supermarket checkout line that brings whatever leaps on moves to the boat and is dumped into a holding tank. They would ne to be adjusted for width in case of rivers. A float at the ends will prevent a huge load from pulling one side down. Such a harvester could go back and forth across lakes/rivers/shores to mechanically harvest these carp. They can be used for catfood, fertilizer etc. Carp are prolific egg layers, so this would need to be done prior to the spawning time and repeated again and again as the carp are killed and new ones grow - at some point you would be able to exploit this leaping reflex to the disadvantage of the carp. EDIT giantg2 commented that this could lead to an evolutionary fork to non jumping fish = true, but along with other elimination processes in parallel it would take time to select - enough time??

As the article says, Carp is tricky eating because of the bones. If you are feeding kids you have to give them a tiny pinch at a time. If you are feeding yourself you can spit the bones out. If I am really hungry I just eat the bones. Taste is fine, not much different then any other whitefish.

I had a Chinese girlfriend in high school and her grandma made us Carp soup. This was the first time I ate carp. If you are really good with chopsticks you can pick out the bones but I had to use my fingers which amused grandma. The soup tasted fine but she used the head of the fish as decoration so the fish was looking at me as I ate him. Nowadays I burry the fish heads in the garden as they are good fertilizer.

The simple solution is to fill the canal in with rocks and soil. It ought never to have been dug, because the economic interests of Illinois should not be allowed to threaten Michigan’s environment.

Does anyone find it ridiculous to try to target an market based solution to the problem through intentionally overfishing a species to extinction? Is that how we believe fishing markets work?

If you really want to eliminate the species, you don’t need people to find them palatable. You just need to pay per carp. Look at what was nefariously done to the bison, with the famous photos of the stacked bison skulls. We didn’t need to first build a marketing campaign to sell bison burgers, it was simply cash for kills. You could of course put the carp into dog food fish sticks or whatever, but it sounds like this is an emergency and not something that can wait for diets to adapt.

I don't think there ever was a reluctance to eat asian carp. People don't know or care what kind of fish is in a lot of fish products

What's that law about headlines asking quesitons? Answer's always NO.