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Eat the Enemy! New Book Seeks to Combat Asian Carp Epidemic

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POMA member Joseph Classen of Wild Revelation Outdoors has just published a new book entitled Eat the Enemy! – Turning the Asian Carp Invasion into Healthy, Delicious Cuisine. The book is designed to be a motivational tool to inform the public about the ecological disaster these fish are causing, and more so, to get people inspired to make use of this resource. Fisheries biologists all across the country firmly agree that the only way to manage this invasive species is to create a long-term, large-scale harvesting and utilization effort. And, the essential key to creating an active, ongoing harvest is to address the overwhelmingly negative preconceived notions that the public has about these fish. People desperately need to be educated about how incredibly nutritious and delicious these fish are (and how much fun they are to catch!) as the first step to making use of this resource and to ultimately help stop their ever-increasing environmental destruction. (Please click here for more details about the book)

Eat the Enemy is a complete guide to harvesting and utilizing this organic, beyond-sustainable, wild-caught, locally harvested food source, which is currently going mostly to waste. The book explores the following topics:

  • Foreword by Dr. Quinton Phelps: a leading expert on the Asian carp epidemic
  • An overview of the Asian carp invasion and ecosystem destruction
  • The autobiographical adventure story of a river rat catfishing kid turned Alaskan fishing guide, who upon his return to the Midwest was in search of worthy table fare
  • A biological and nutritional profile of Asian carp
  • Detailed Asian carp fishing and processing methods
  • A cookbook component with 50 mouth-watering Asian carp recipes

For this book to reach its full potential as a motivational and educational conservation tool, there first needs to be awareness of it…especially by communities where the Asian carp invasion is doing the most damage, such as Illinois. Anything POMA members can do to help spread the word about this new book would be greatly appreciated!