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12-21-2007, 08:39 PM
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| | Straight cash, homey...
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| Bluegill taking over Japan
 Japan in culinary offensive to stop spread of US fish | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited Quote:
The keepers of Japan's biggest lake have called on the public to join in one final push to eat the bluegill fish - possibly the most reviled creature in Japan - into extinction before it does the same to threatened native species.
The bluegill's steady destruction of indigenous freshwater fish, almost 50 years after it was touted as a vital source of protein for an undernourished population, is being treated as an ecological emergency and has provoked a rare public show of contrition from Emperor Akihito. As crown prince, Akihito received bluegill as a gift from the then mayor of Chicago, Richard J Daley, during a visit to the US in 1960.
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12-21-2007, 08:42 PM
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| | Conscience of the VN
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| Once went fishing for bluegill on a private pond in Washington Co., GA. Myself any my friends caught several hundred in an afternoon but one fellow's girlfriend showed up for about half an hour and caught a 3 and 1/2 pounder. | |
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12-21-2007, 08:56 PM
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| | Volmeister extraordinaire
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Originally Posted by VolunteerHillbilly  Once went fishing for bluegill on a private pond in Washington Co., GA. Myself any my friends caught several hundred in an afternoon but one fellow's girlfriend showed up for about half an hour and caught a 3 and 1/2 pounder. | A 3 1/2 pound bluegill must be some kind of record. That could be a one fish dinner for someone. | |
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12-21-2007, 08:59 PM
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| | Conscience of the VN
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| No doubt sir. | |
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12-21-2007, 09:22 PM
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| | Straight cash, homey...
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Originally Posted by hmanvolfan Bluegill and bream are damn tasty fish when fried correctly.. | Wonder why the Japanese don't like bluegill?  | |
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12-21-2007, 09:52 PM
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| | Now....make it happen!
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| The majority of fish consumed in Japan comes from the ocean and is consumed raw. I would assume that trying to make sushi or sashimi out of blue gill caught in warm water lakes in Japan could be unhealthy. Also, I have not observed many deep frying seafood restrauants in my travels there. From my experiences, if it swims, crawls and comes from the sea....it is served raw in the sushi shops, and generally tastes pretty darn good. | |
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12-21-2007, 10:11 PM
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| | Say what?
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| somebody, somewhere, is trying to find some way to pin this on George W. Bush, global warming, or a combination of the two.
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12-21-2007, 10:29 PM
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| | Dusting the rafters
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| George Bush caught a blue gill one time. So therefore this is his fault.
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12-21-2007, 10:31 PM
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| Interesting thing in Japan, the French will send 40,000 btls of a very cheap, poor quality wine to Japan each year to "celebrate" the Beaujolais Nouveau Wine Festival....there was so much hype and buzz there about the pending arrival of the wine that I could not wait to taste it....wow.....Boone's farm could make a run on this stuff. But once hyped in Japan, it sells. http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-...is_nouveau.jpg
So, I expect that if they created a "Eat Bluegill Week", and put some marketing into it, they would be importing that fish after a few days! | |
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12-21-2007, 10:33 PM
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| | Straight cash, homey...
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Originally Posted by MG1968 somebody, somewhere, is trying to find some way to pin this on George W. Bush, global warming, or a combination of the two. | Well, since global warming is George Bush's fault, if it is global warming's fault, that indirectly makes Bush culpable.
Bush also started the Chicago Fire and caused the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. | |
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12-21-2007, 10:35 PM
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| | Straight cash, homey...
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Originally Posted by NEVolFan Interesting thing in Japan, the French will send 40,000 btls of a very cheap, poor quality wine to Japan each year to "celebrate" the Beaujolais Nouveau Wine Festival....there was so much hype and buzz there about the pending arrival of the wine that I could not wait to taste it....wow.....Boone's farm could make a run on this stuff. But once hyped in Japan, it sells. http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2003-...is_nouveau.jpg
So, I expect that if they created a "Eat Bluegill Week", and put some marketing into it, they would be importing that fish after a few days! | Nothing says heaven like Mad Dog and fried bluegill.  | |
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12-22-2007, 12:53 PM
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Originally Posted by hmanvolfan Bluegill and bream are damn tasty fish when fried correctly.. | you got that right | |
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