Hey, there! Log in / Register
Charles River gives man something to carp about
By adamg on Fri, 03/11/2016 - 6:52pm
Shannon Dooling ran across a fisherman and his carp along the Esplanade this afternoon. That's a lot of potential gefilte fish.
Neighborhoods:
Free tagging:
Ad:
Support Universal Hub
Help keep Universal Hub going. If you like what we're up to and want to help out, please consider a (completely non-deductible) contribution.
Comments
There's a lot of them in the Neponset River
Sometimes you'll see several that size hanging out. Don't think I'd eat one because of the pollution, though.
Rinse them out
I've seen families pulling them out of the local waterways a couple of weeks ahead of major ethnic holidays. They put them in huge coolers and carry them to a vehicle using multiple people to lift.
One of the local watershed people said that they keep them in a pool of clean water for a couple of weeks and feed them clean food before they prepare them. It sounds like a good idea, but nobody has really tested whether or not it works to reduce potentially toxic substances.
And in the old days ...
Mothers would use the bathtub for that purpose, at least before Passover (not my mother, but hers).
Cruelty to animals.
This is sad. This person should be arrested.
well..
he could of put it back (catch and release).. and if he ate it, jokes on him!
1) Carp are invasive species
1) Carp are invasive species
2) This person seems to be practicing catch-and-release, which is generally not harmful to the fish.
3) Fisherman and hunters are some of the most supportive conservationists you may ever meet
4) Catch-and-kill fishing is no more cruel to animals than eating a burger. No fisherman eating their own catch wants to prolong the suffering of the fish
5) There's no case for arrest here, it is perfectly legal to fish. Don't harass people for obeying the law.
No carping about gefilte fish
Adam - glad to see you're a man who knows what to do with carp and has the recipe to prove it.
Bottom feeders
I'm sure thousands of guys have taken a carp in the Charles.
Catfish too!
Catfish too!
Freshwater Fish Advisory
According to the Department of Health and Human Services Freshwater Fish Consumption Advisory:
P2 means:
And the (C) stands for Carp.
He eats that and he'll be sitting on
the carper for a while.
Meanwhile, the fish is thinking ...
"All these years I been sucking in this polluted-ass water and aside from a few weird headaches over the years and that time my gills swelled up and got itchy for a couple of days, it hasn't killed me, but then this goofball sticks a hook in the water with a fly on it and I'm done. Crap."
Was this one of those
Was this one of those terribly invasive Asian carp?
https://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Threats-to-Wildlife/Invasive-Species/Asian-...