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Old 01-24-2010, 11:45 AM   #1
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http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20...atch-and-clean

BATON ROUGE — If you’re a recreational angler hoping to land a batch of silverfin, the widely-abundant fish being rebranded by public and private interests, you’ll have to go beyond the simple hook-and-line approach that fools most other species worth eating.

You’d probably have better luck with a boat, which is among the methods being considered by the state Wildlife and Fisheries Commission for the recreational market.
Silver and bighead carp — the common name for the fish state officials are now calling silverfin — can jump several feet out of the water, landing in a boat or even a net, which is also being considered as a potential fishing method.

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Silverfins... maybe it will change people's minds about eating them like changing 'slimeheads' to 'orange roughy' did.
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Old 01-24-2010, 01:34 PM   #2
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LMAO

I think it should just be ground up for dog food!
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Old 01-24-2010, 01:48 PM   #3
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We just got done eating some broiled venison backstrap wrapped in bacon along with some fried grass carp and a side of fried butternut squash. Mmmm.. good AFC football watchin' food.

Grassies and 'silverfins' are good eatin'.
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Old 01-24-2010, 05:47 PM   #4
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Grassies and 'silverfins' are good eatin'.

I think I'm gonna be sick!....
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So is "Silverfin" a name for both bighead and silvers? Seems like we should come up with a seperate name for bigheads.
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Old 01-26-2010, 02:38 PM   #7
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So then are bowfins and silverfins related ?

And then of course there's always the Huckfins
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Old 01-26-2010, 08:34 PM   #8
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I think they got a little ahead of themselves with that one - you can't just change the name of a fish. There are laws. And they have not gone through the steps to get approval to use the silverfin name.
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