Flying Fish, Great Dish (Part 3: Deboning Filets & Closing Credits)

Asian carp is an invasive fish species that has rapidly taken over ecosystems in parts of the Mississippi River and Missouri River regions. These fish (Asian carp consist of silver carp (or "flying fish") and bighead carp) have been voraciously consuming plankton, leaving less food for native fish; which has a negative impact on these environments. In addition, Asian carp have been causing harm to people by jumping into boats. What can humans do about this problem? We can catch them according to individual states' laws, thereby helping to deplete their staggering populations. But, its not only about solving problems; Asian carp are also an excellent fish to eat- offering large, low-fat, nutritious filets. This video teaches you how to debone your filets. The segment is the third in a series of three that teach you how to turn flying fish into a great dish!

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• Asian
• carp
• fish
• flying
• wings
• non-native
• species
• cleaning
• cooking
• nutritious
• silver
• bighead
• deboning
• nutrition
• fishing

[miamiwax]

seems like this could be a win / win situation for everybody. if you could develop an industry around the fish it would reduce numbers while providing jobs and food. instead they've been mass hunted and left to rot?? only in america...

[flamedrag18]

awesome series, thank you for uploading this series of videos, very informative. I don't see much waste, the bones can be ground up for fish food and used for fertilizer, the red meat is unappetizing and can serve the same purposes, and that's a 12;b fish that mostly head, so I see this as a good job for the circumstances, I would hate to eat bones.

[bobzeda]

I hope they use the boney meat. You can grind in all in dog/cat food. There is alot of wasted good white meet with bone.

Fish has ALOt of white meat though.

[riptorrex]

So much waste.....All the bones and red meat. There are a lot of fish that are a lot easier to clean. Hopefully the coonasses in Louisiana will catch the fire for eating these things and wipe them out. I'll bet these carp make good fertilizer

[iceman763]

damn those Y bones suck........... 

[iceman763]

shit i need to move down south and start working on a fast way to de-bone these things so resturants and people who have a taste of the fillets won't have to waste time doing this

[Zoo110986]

Will this method also work on common carp? That is, is the skeletal structure the same between the species?

[mmmmmarcus]

You're right. My bad. Reading further, i found the dinoflagellate "Pfiesteria"..

 thats WORSE than ciguatera o_o

[carptracker]

@mmmmmarcus

You can't get ciguatera from freshwater fish. And predacious fish are more likely to have a buildup of the toxin because the toxin bioconcentrates through the food chain. So that is just silly.

[mmmmmarcus]

Its dangerous to eat such a large filter-feeding species.. Someone's gonna end up getting ciguatera.