Carp Cuisine

Living on Earth

Roughly 600 million invasive Asian Carp have made themselves at home in Midwestern Rivers. As officials struggle to keep them out of the Great Lakes,
one local company has a solution. It’s started to ship the carp back to China as food, where they’re considered a delicacy.

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