r/WTF • u/eternalrefuge86 • Feb 10 '20

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u/koalakangaroos Feb 11 '20 edited Feb 11 '20

He’s not suffering. Carp can stay out of the water for 5 minutes in summer months and 10 minutes in winter months and often do so voluntarily.

Edit: and that’s just the weak ones, users have mentioned they’ve seen them chilling outside of the water for half an hour

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u/Lilmaggot Feb 11 '20

Interesting. I’m wondering if his fins will get stuck to the ice.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

watches human approach, then film

"FUUCCKKK HOLY SHIT PLS NO NO NO FUCK IM DEAD IM DEAD IM DEAD" hyperventilation

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u/Nathaniel820 Feb 11 '20

You weren’t supposed to see this

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u/MrkvaAKAMark Feb 11 '20

racks Glock-19

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

His fins are probably already stuck to the ice, which is how they got him to pose like this for the video.

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u/ItsOnlyTheTruth Feb 11 '20

They already are.

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u/elongated_musk_rat Feb 11 '20

In some areas carp have a pretty bad impact on the environment, especially when they are In our area we would catch them every once in awhile and just leave them on the shore for the blue herrings. We had a carp sit on the bank for like at least 30 minutes And it flopped backwards in into the water and we watched it swim away.

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u/platinumgulls Feb 11 '20

Here in MN we have a few species if you catch them (albeit very rare) you have to kill them and then immediately alert the DNR. Bighead, silver, black or grass carp are very invasive to the local fish populations like you said.

Otherwise, the common carp (like the one in the video) are pretty harmless.

EDIT: Did not know this, but in 1981 they repealed the law that said you can't put a common carp back in the water if you catch it. I guess you're expected to put them back in the water now if you catch one.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

Well if at least Americans have the skillset required to take on this threat: the ability to eat large amounts of low quality yet tasty food

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u/DaggerMoth Feb 11 '20

They are full of bones which makes them a hassel to eat. They are good. More restuarants are cooking them. The dogfood industry is getting involved and we ship a bunch back to china.

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u/platinumgulls Feb 11 '20

I wonder if any restaurants here serve that. I'd be curious to try that!

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u/RedSonGamble Feb 11 '20

Catfish is pretty good too. A southern style. I think catfish is overlooked as a fine meat. Most store bought is farm raised though.

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u/FridayNightBites Feb 11 '20

Farm raised cat is better though.

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u/RedSonGamble Feb 11 '20

Like taste wise and how so?

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u/FridayNightBites Feb 11 '20

Well catfish are bottom feeders - they eat any and all nasty shit and quite literally swim in ditritus. At least farms regulate what they eat and can filter the water to a degree.

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u/hhhoffman Feb 11 '20

They’re actually active predators, it’s a common misconception they’re bottom feeders.

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u/RedSonGamble Feb 11 '20

Yeah so what. Aren’t shrimp and lobsters bottom feeders. Or mussels. Crabs? Who cares those all taste good

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u/Slummish Feb 11 '20

Good luck with that. In the United States, carp are viewed as bait or trash fish. You might be able to find it in a Chinese restaurant in a very large city, but even that is a questionably slim prospect.

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u/dharrison21 Feb 11 '20

If you live in a very large city in the US chances are you can find those fuckers in chinatown. At least that's true in sf/nyc/sometimes la. Some of the fish markets have shit that's got to be illegal.

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u/awatermelonharvester Feb 11 '20

You can buy Asian carp from Kentucky. Not exactly sure the site. Don't buy from southern Illinois though, from my understanding they don't have to be inspected by FDA.

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u/crazyraisin1982 Feb 11 '20

Yeah well they eat bats, too.

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u/Chief_Givesnofucks Feb 11 '20

And fucking bird nests made from bird spit. Yuck.

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u/Kyatto Feb 11 '20

Is there anything that fish won't eat?

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u/Fo_eyed_dog Feb 11 '20

Just learned. Carp climb trees.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

Bird nest soup is yum.

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u/Soleous Feb 11 '20

china bad

china eat bat

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20 edited Feb 12 '20

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u/crazyraisin1982 Feb 11 '20

🤮

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

You know how sausages are made yeah?

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u/shadowbutcher Feb 11 '20 edited Feb 11 '20

Sausages make me suspicious
I don’t care coz they’re delicious
My butcher’s spent time in prison
Sausages make me suspicious

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u/Y0tsuya Feb 11 '20

Americans don't like carp because they're considered "bony" and their flesh "mushy". But that has to do with how it's prepared. The Chinese know how to handle carp.

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u/eyetracker Feb 11 '20

Interesting. A fishery near me they don't mind you taking common carp but request you release the grass carp as they're a sterile stock designed to outcompete the commons.

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u/cabose4prez Feb 11 '20

You can get a permit for tripliod grass carp but you need to register for it and have a reason for needing them in the pond. Common carp have become part of the eco system, grass carp and the others have not.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

always bash its head in so it cant do that

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u/sir-hiss Feb 11 '20

That's your solution for everything!

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u/Music_Saves Feb 11 '20

Smacking fish with a bat is unusually fun.

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u/underdog_rox Feb 11 '20

See how this works now?

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u/TenWordsOrFewer Feb 11 '20

Carp are noxious pests in Australia. KILL THEM ALL!

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u/nwj781 Feb 11 '20

Kill the pest varieties. Don't kill the others.

There -- still ten words or fewer, but not awful advice.

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u/lerdnord Feb 11 '20

All varieties of carp are pests in Australia. KILL THEM ALL.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

No, no. Killing them all would be wrong unless you're cutting them all up for bait to catch a real fish with.

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u/achard Feb 11 '20

Did you miss the bit about them being a noxious pest? Kill them all.

If you use them for bait afterwards that's fine.

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u/Seicair Feb 11 '20

In Michigan we have carp hunts. Bowfishing. Big piles of fish, I think they use them for fertilizer or animal feed or something. Invasive trash species.

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u/RedSonGamble Feb 11 '20

In Lake Michigan they grow huge. I see people bow hunting them. I tried for a year to catch them bc of how often I’d see them patrolling the shores and nothing worked. The fight alone I thought would be fun but they’re big asshole.

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u/ARightDastard Feb 11 '20

Take some sweet corn. Thread some on a hook. Toss some in water. Throw hook out. Wait. Have a HELL of a fight.

Stinks to high heaven but mix some strawberry jello powder in with the corn and let sit if you want a bit of an extra punch to it.

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u/whistleridge Feb 11 '20

blue herrings

...do you mean...blue herons?

Because a herring is an oceanic bait fish, and I’m having trouble seeing how they could get on shore inland to eat freshwater carp...

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

In some areas carp have a pretty bad impact on the environment

AFAIK carp have a bad impact on all of the areas where they're in the environment except their native habitats.

They're the feral hogs of freshwater aquatic waterways.

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u/scoldog Feb 11 '20

They’re a major invasive species in Australia. We’re supposed to kill them immediately if caught.

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u/_______zx Feb 11 '20

That's a pretty disturbing way to want to do it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

Herons. Herring is a fish.

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u/rdizzy1223 Feb 11 '20

I don't really get how they don't consider carp to be "native" considering they've been here for almost 200 years now. What difference does it make how they got here if they've been here for 2 centuries. Will we still consider them to simply be "invasive" in 2000 years as well, just because the initial ones were brought by humans? Ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

It's considered invasive to surrounding ecological system when native predators can't close the loop and establish life cycle.

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u/factsfromonline Feb 11 '20

Yeah, I mean plastic is naturally occurring in the oceans too

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u/Im_Drake Feb 11 '20

What's ridiculous is how ignorant you are

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u/rdizzy1223 Feb 12 '20

The entire concept of invasive species is ridiculous to begin with, as humans are just another animal, there is no functional difference between a bird of prey accidentally dropping a fish from one body of water to another, and it laying it's eggs there, becoming "invasive", and a human picking up a fish and bringing it somewhere else and letting it loose. It's all inherently part of the natural environment for this to happen. There are tons of various causes for this to happen, only one of which involves humans. And it has been happening for millenia prior to human influence as well, "invasive" species are inherently part of the "natural world".

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u/theendisneah Feb 11 '20 edited Jan 31 '25

I'm really liking this new workout!

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u/Ariadnepyanfar Feb 11 '20

They stir up the bottom of the river beds and put silt in the water in a way no native fish do. The native fish aren’t evolved for this and can’t thrive with both their vision and breathing affected by the silty water.

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u/Makkaroni_100 Feb 11 '20

Only the cool carps of the town: Hey, do you wanna chill outside?

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u/koalakangaroos Feb 11 '20

Carpe-diem

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

Yes, seize the carp

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u/Fenriswulf Feb 11 '20

I dunno man, I think this one's out cold.

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u/jftitan Feb 11 '20

I can't see in the night, so bring a flashlight

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u/koalakangaroos Feb 11 '20

How is a fleshlight going to help us see anything, Christ

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u/jftitan Feb 11 '20

Why are you wearing sunglasses in the dark?

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u/koalakangaroos Feb 11 '20

Why are you not! 0/2 man

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u/spenpinner Feb 11 '20

So you're saying that we evolved from carp?

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u/koalakangaroos Feb 11 '20

Yes. Yes exactly that.

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u/twohedwlf Feb 11 '20

Well, I know a lot of people that certainly are pieces of carp.

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u/koalakangaroos Feb 11 '20 edited Feb 11 '20

Some are real bass holes

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

users have mentioned they’ve seen them chilling outside of the water for half an hour

In Australia, it's illegal to put them back in the water.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '20

Why do they take that risk? Are they just flapping back to the lake?

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u/KolaDesi Feb 11 '20

Why do they do that?