The only downside is that they are extremely bony. It's kind of like our native buffalo fish - the meat is actually very good, but it's tough to get a bite of it that's not full of bones, even on a big fish. Regular fillet methods don't remove the Y bones, and in my experience, cutting them out is not nearly as simple as it appears to be in the video. Maybe I just need more practice at it.
They are such prolific breeders that harvest isn't going to dent the population, unless we can create a large-scale commercial fishing industry aimed at these fish. That's probably unlikely unless it's artificially created with some kind of federal subsidy to make it worthwhile for commercial industry to get into, and then you have the problem that you've created a large scale, big-money industry that is aimed at wiping out the very fish that make it profitable. Not surprisingly, market pressures would work against that.
Having said that, I'm all for eating them - every additional fish that's killed is at least one that's not still swimming around impacting the river.
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