Farms: The Worst Fish in America: Asian Carpocalypse
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Subscribe to VICE News here: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-VICE-News VICE News correspondent Thomas Morton investigates Asian carp — a slimy, ugly, and often gargantuan species of fish that has taken over many waterways in the United States. First introduced in the US in the 1960s to control weeds and parasites at aquatic farms in Arkansas, the bottom feeders eventually escaped and made their way through the Mississippi River system, eating almost everything in their path and severely damaging ecosystems across the Midwest. Today, government officials are concerned that the fish will invade the Great Lakes, destroy more ecosystems, wreak havoc on the region's multibillion dollar fishing industry, and spread to almost every major waterway in the Northeast. VICE News traveled across Illinois to see how people are dealing with the Asian carp invasion, visiting the Redneck Fishing Tournament — where the sole mission is to catch as many carp as possible — touring a processing plant trying to monetize the fish, and then heading to Chicago, where we learned that Asian carp are a symptom of a much larger issue. Watch: "The Sloths That Could Cure Cancer" - http://bit.ly/1rngNf9 Check out the VICE News beta for more: http://vicenews.com Follow VICE News here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vicenews Twitter: https://twitter.com/vicenews Tumblr: http://vicenews.tumblr.com/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/vicenews
Comments
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goldfishes are also asian
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what if you strapped a net above water in-between to boats? you could catch so many in almost no time.
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Targeted, genetic poisoning is the key. We just need the science to get there.
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I wouldn't mind trying some carp.
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they are good eating I've heard
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Carp lives matter👊🏻
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Such barbaric behaviour.
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why dont people eat it? do they taste bad? am I missing something from the video?
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Genophage ?
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Lmao my favorite thing about Vice is how they put hipsters into uncomfortable solutions and watching them try and adapt
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Actually The Best Fish in America. They fail to see the $$ sign on the fish! Asian Carp is a threat to mentally handicapped people.
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not that i'm some insane anti meat activitist, I don't eat fish but that's cuz its gross lol, but does anyone know if fish can feel pain? Australia has some pretty strong laws on protecting vertebrae animals because they have an advanced nervous system that feels great pain....I thought fish were vertebrae so they could feel pain in this kind of killing?
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you gotta love a redneck.
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Seems like the most cost efficient solution would be some type of pellet that the fish would suck up and render them infertile or straight up kill them
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carp are stupid
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hes kinda of a jerk to people he thinks are inferior to him the "rednecks"
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1st of all they are rednecks so they were born stupid and racist if it didnt have Asian in its name that would be a food of choice for them also they are killing them and putting them back in the water for the rest to eat if that doesn't open your eyes to how stupid rednecks are then nothing will
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Just like white people they take you to a place for their selfish reasons then once they are done with you they try to kill you
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goddamn rednecks