It's easy to laugh and joke about carp but they are the number #1 fish farmed in the entire world and one of the oldest if not the oldest species ever farmed. The real experts go with 4 different species in one pond to take advantage of different feeding habits. If you flush them out, keep them in a bathtub of clean water for a week to 10 days they taste way better, then you are just fighting the bones.
They are one of the smartest, most adaptable fish ever. It's just a cultural difference. So much so I can go to many freshwater resevoirs around me and catch a ton, no kidding, 2,000 pounds. But you have to flush them, I do the same with crawdads. Then you smoke them, put them in mason jars and pressure cook them, the bones just vanish. Even here in the states in Asian markets, #1 species is carp.
