If the other Asian carps taste like grass carp, then I imagine they have very good flesh. The grass carp that I have eaten have been excellent, though bony. Canning will solve that problem. I am glad somebody is making lemonade out of lemons, but it is only a drop in the bucket. As a native fish enthusiast, who likes to look at the smallest of the non-gamefish, this really saddens me. The little Miami is my local river, and has really made a recent comeback. I have found mountain madtom populations so great that the state has reduced their status from endangered to threatened. The variegate darter has made a huge comeback in this river as well. I dread that what we have gained may start backsliding.
